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Movie time – videos that define the environmental movement

Annelie Andersson — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:14:49 +0000

Viral videos that have defined the environmental movement from 1958-2010.

Wind a friend indeed.

You and only you have the power to save energy.

The future is NOT later.

Nothing new under the Sun.

Source: ecopolitology.org

Put on your hard hat, work in progress

Annelie Andersson — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:30:27 +0000

At the moment we are working hard to improve our leading marketplace, where members can work collectively to source sustainable ideas and raise funding for sustainable innovations.

However, we can’t improve anything unless we work collaboratively with the crowd.

Please put on your hard hat and help us iterating the site through changes www.globeforum.com

We’re really curious to see how people use the site and look forward to seeing even more suggestions, send your feedback to info@globeforum.com or simply reply to this post.

Keep up the hard work!

Annelie Andersson

Ps. A couple of days ago our site was spotted by a trend spotter at Springwise, one of the world’s leading sources of new business ideas, read the full entry here.

Summing up

sarasglobalthoughts — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:36:25 +0000

I will leave the Forum 2010 much better informed about the challenges we are facing.

I also feel more hopefull that there are posibilities to reach a sustainable development.

As I look at the screne in the center I see the Globe Forum logo. Suddenly It all makes sense to me. I look at the three colors reaching for eachother in the logo. I see the green for the land and blue for our oceans and what unites them is the orange field. I interpret the orange as the creativity and ability of innovation and adjustment we humans are capable of, becouse I now I know we are. So what are we waiting for?

A new business paradigm enabled by the cradle to cradle philosophy

TheGreenMerrie — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:15:35 +0000

In order to get your head around a truly sustainable future, it is necessary to think in different terms as laid out by the cradle-to-cradle philosophy. We are facing a future of indisputable and worsening resource scarcity that requires entirely new ways of designing, manufacturing and selling products.

Prof Michael Braungart, founder of Cradle to Cradle points out that it is about focusing on the excellent service and exceptional experience that a company provides and not on the product. A product should have a defined use period and when that period ends, the company takes back the physical part of the product and uses those valuable raw materials and designs them in to a new and better product.

Prof Michael expanded on this by saying that companies will need to see themselves more and more as raw material banks that are experts in resource scarcity management. He stressed that the cradle-to-cradle concept and the deconstruction and re-use approach is fundamentally different to the old ‘recycling’ paradigm which is more or less a token approach to sustainability and is very limited in and of itself.

Plantagon

sarasglobalthoughts — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:05:51 +0000

New tec

christiansglobalthoughts — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:03:06 +0000

We waste too much resources because it is obvious for us that we have the supply. But is this sustainable? The population is increasing and resources are scarce at many places in the world.

Thanks to new technology people will soon have systems in their houses which control power supply automatically. Some people will have wind turbines on the yard which will supply their houses. Some people will buy a machine who can make water from air. Solar panel will be on all roofs to heat up houses.

I have been more aware of all problems the world is facing with the waste of our resources. This forum is a initiative in the right direction of how we should use new technology in order to create a better world. Thanks to all innovators their is hope to make it better.

On the other hand it is scary that the human being needs a computer to do the thinking that we should switch off the light or decrease the temperature. We should understand that by ourselves.

If you are not an engineer who can come up with new ideas you can spread the message to stop waste resources. People can cut their resource waste a lot by just be in the shower for 9 instead of 10 minutes, turn off the light if you do not use it etc.

Heal the world

sarasglobalthoughts — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:54:46 +0000

Let´s make a better place for you and for me.

It´s like I knew somewhere that it would come… I just waited for this song..

M. Jackson interpreted by the amazing singers.

Guilt management

sarasglobalthoughts — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:28:03 +0000

“If you beat your child 8 times, it doesn´t become less bad if you beat it just 5 times”

That is only one of many interesting comments in this session about how we can reduce the carbon footprint.

Lunch-talk

sarasglobalthoughts — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:08:30 +0000

During the lunch me and Christian found a place to sit down at Sidas tables. There we had a very interesting chat with Ylva Sahlstrand, Sida. The subject was how to help on equal terms. I couldn´t help to relate that challenge with the climate issues. Can one say that reaching sustainability is actually the same as finding a way where both sides cooperate without sacrifizing?

Talking about the fear

sarasglobalthoughts — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:01:31 +0000

Listening to Vaasaett’s speaker during the “silent session”. She just mentioned the conference that failed in Copenhagen. Why? Because of the fear that we can´t combine economic growth with a reduction of contamination. Is it so? Perhaps that is the reason why the world is reacting so slowly to the climate change.

When you become scared it is often followed by a paralyzing feeling. You kind of freeze in the moment and can´t figure out what to do. The next second you want to escape. But how do you escape the climate?

Well, you don´t. You stay and fight for it.