Monday 26 March 2012

Rudolf Bahro - ‘Building the Green Movement’

‘We’re in the process of industrialising the world to death and destruction …
…..we must break with the entire logic of this social formation. Even the institutions of the left are among the things that have to be overcome.
 After all they all want to solve the old questions…….They want to repair a system that we must leave behind.’
 
 
This weeks Green Thoughts are taken from Rudolf Bahro’s book ‘Building the Green Movement’. 1986. ( from the essay ‘Human beings are not ants’.)
 
 
Philosopher Rudolf Bahro (1935 – 1997) was thrown out of East Germany because of his dissident views and soon became a central figure in the founding of the West German Green party (Die GrĂ¼nen). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Bahro

Monday 19 March 2012

David Orr - ‘Earth in Mind’

‘We cannot know what sustainability means until we have decided what we intend to sustain and how we propose to do so. For some, sustainability means maintaining our present path of domination, only with greater efficiency’.

 This weeks Green Thoughts are taken from David Orr’s 1994 book ‘Earth in Mind’  (from part 4 - Destinations.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Orr

Monday 12 March 2012

Paul Ehrlich

The main hope for changing humanity's present course may lie ... in the development of a world view drawn partly from ecological principles - in the so-called deep ecology movement.
 
Todays Green Thought comes from the American biologist Paul Ehrlich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich

Monday 5 March 2012

Donella Meadows

"Once again I stopped listening to the news this week. "


Today’s Green Thought comes from the blog of the late Donella Meadows (1941 – 2001) http://www.sustainer.org/?page_id=90 , a pioneering American environmental scientist who is best known as lead author of the influential book The Limits to Growth, which made headlines around the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth