Otto Ulrich - The Development Dictionary

The need to renounce the use of atomic energy, the chlorine industry, most aspects of synthesizing chemistry, reliance on the automobile, and industrialised and chemicalised agriculture has become self-evident to ecologically conscious people.

 

This weeks green thought comes from Otto Ulrich on Technology  in The Development Dictionary (1992), edited by Wolfgang Sachs.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sachs

Tim Jackson - Prosperity without Growth

… the market was not undone (in the 2008 crisis) by isolated practices carried out by rogue individuals … The market was undone by growth itself.

 

Tim Jackson, Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet, Earthscan, 2009

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Jackson_%28economist%29

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Commission

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_Without_Growth

 

Ozzie Zehners - Green Illusions : The Dirty Secrets of Green Energy and the Future of Environmentalism

….journalist(s) go so far to claim that alternative-energy production is the only option, insisting that producing greenhouse-gas emissions ”requires” that we immediately deploy “other sources of energy, such as windmills and nuclear plants”.
Hogwash.
…….these technologies generate greenhouse-gas, instigate negative side effects of their own, encounter limitations, and most problematically, act to further stimulate overall power demand.

 

This weeks green thought also comes from Ozzie Zehners’ 2012  green-myth shattering book Green Illusions :  The Dirty Secrets of Green Energy and the Future of Environmentalism.

 

 

http://ozziezehner.com/

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/unclean-at-any-speed

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/ozzie-zehner-responds-to-his-critics

Ozzie Zehners - Green Illusions : The Dirty Secrets of Green Energy and the Future of Environmentalism

Upon closer inspection, the benefits of green automobiles start to appear synonymous with the benefits of smoking low-tar cigarettes. Both seem healthy only when compared to something framed as being worse…….It isn’t acceptable for doctors to promote low-tar cigarettes. Should environmentalists promote alternatively fuelled automobiles ?

 

This weeks green thought comes from Ozzie Zehners’ 2012  green-myth

shattering book Green Illusions :  The Dirty Secrets of Green Energy and the Future of Environmentalism.     

 

http://ozziezehner.com/

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/unclean-at-any-speed

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/ozzie-zehner-responds-to-his-critics

 

Wolfgang Sachs - The Development Dictionary (1992)

Calls for securing the future of the planet are often, on closer inspection, nothing else than calls for the survival of the industrial system.

 

This weeks green thought comes from Wolfgang Sachs’s essay Environment in The Development Dictionary (1992), which he edited.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sachs

Enrique Penalosa - Mayor of Bogota

This weeks green thought comes from the former Mayor of Bogota, Mr Enrique Penalosa

 

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars, it’s where the rich ride public transportation”.

During his term of office, Enrique Penalosa built 300km of protected bike lanes, and said:

“When we build very high quality bicycle infrastructure, besides protecting cyclists, it shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally as important to one in a $30,000 car.

Every Sunday and on public holidays, motor vehicles are banned from 18 out of 20 districts of the city of Bogota. Since 1976 (i.e. for more than 35 years), the “Ciclovía“, the day of the week, when almost the whole city becomes a bike lane, is carried out.  In 1980, the Ciclovia was enshrined in law.

 

Besides the bicycle infrastructure, the former mayor established the TransMilenio, a bus rapid transit system, which provides “public transportation that improves traffic flow and reduces smog at a fraction of the cost of building a subway.” The TransMilenio and the bike infrastructure are interlinked: “TransMilenio stations at each end of a line have huge bicycle parking facilities to facilitate bicyclists using the system.”

 

Just like Stafford !

 

http://www.openideo.com/open/how-might-we-improve-health-care-through-social-business-in-low-income-communities/inspiration/about-enrique-penalosa-former-mayor-of-bogota-colombia

 

http://www.pps.org/reference/epenalosa-2/

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Pe%C3%B1alosa

Neil Evernden - ‘Natural Alien’

‘As a member of industrial society it is difficult for any environmentalist to step fully outside that society’s assumptions, or to make sense of it if he does’.

 

 

This weeks Green Thoughts are taken from page 37 of Neil Everndens’ ‘Natural Alien’ (2nd Edit. 1993).

 

http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_natural_alien.html?id=pPBeaElorjsC&redir_esc=y

 

http://www.arthurmag.com/tags/neil-evernden/