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Respect Climate: Looking for Smart Climate Solutions
We are a long way off solving the problem of climate change. One need only to think of the string of failed climate negotiations or the recent massive investments in tar sands and shale gas to...
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Towards a Lagom Society
We have a wonderful word in Swedish, ’lagom.’ Its meaning, like all wonderful foreign words, gets lost in translation, coming out as something like ’sufficient’ or ’adequate’ in English. But these...
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Almedalen 2013 – A slumbering welfare model “at risk”
We are now approaching the time for Sweden’s biggest political event – The Almedalen Political Week (June 30-July 7). An event on the island of Gotland in the Baltic sea which now brings together...
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Circular economies: a new industrial model, not “business as usual”
The move from linear business models to circular ones is an exciting development. More and more companies are rejecting the “business as usual” model by maximizing the value extracted from resources...
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Political leadership in a new era
IPCC. Drought. Storms. CO2 levels of 400 ppm. In 2014, climate change and sustainability moved from being distinct environmental concerns to becoming systematic welfare issues. Agricultural production...
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33 Mayors network listed – will they act for a climate deal?
National governments have proven that they do not have what is required to meet the global challenges of climate change and the unsustainable use of our planet’s resources. The shortcomings of the COP...
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The role for co-op’s in today’s social challenges – healthy people, planet...
Upstream along the Hudson River and a few hours’ train journey from New York City lies the state capital of Albany, a city comparable in size to Stockholm (with a population of around 1 million)....
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ENERGY INDEPENDENCE FOR UKRAINE?
Issues of energy efficiency and sustainable energy production may have featured less prominently in the recent unrest, but they may present the greatest long-term opportunity for Kiev to seize control...
View ArticleMind the gap: Can the cooperative movement deliver sustainable cities?
Tweet My belief that Bilbao is a stronghold of sustainable city developments is growing immeasurably. Why? Because after visiting for a week of creative dialogue between 800 participants from 200...
View ArticleCity finance and Climate Targets – all emissions are local
Tweet At the beginning of October, an environmental landmark passed with little fuss: The last of the world’s 55 biggest greenhouse gases emitters ratified the historic Paris Agreement. The news...
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