The climate change policy platform that’s floating just under the surface of negotiations I was privileged to attend COP15 in Copenhagen this week as a member of the Global Commons Institute delegation, headed by Aubrey Meyer. During our attendance, I spent a fair bit of time talking about C&C theory with Aubrey, and felt motivated […]
Month: December 2009
Google or Tea? Introducing the Carbon:Value Ratio
I’m not even sure this is worth blogging it seems so obvious. I guess the thing that crystallised this concept in my mind was that whole two-Google-searches-is-the-energy-equivalent-of-boiling-a-kettle nonsense, precipitated by a journalist from The Times doing some bad research and choosing a sensationalist headline which ensured that the story did the rounds for weeks online. […]
Are You the Bug in the Rug?
Ever feel lost, powerless or generally adrift? This is a poem that’s always struck a chord with me. Hope it does the same for you: People who fly have a different view of the world than those who spend their lives on the ground. A very wise man once wrote a poem while he was […]
Power without Responsibility
This phrase has been rattling around my brain for a long time now. One of the first times I said it out loud, James Governor asked me for a link to where I’d blogged about it. I hadn’t: Oh! the shame. Power It’s hard to look around without seeing signs of humanity’s power. Financial, military, […]