Consumer study shows broadband can save the planet

  A recent publication by the American Consumer Institute shows that Broadband Internet can reduce carbon emissions worldwide by up to 1 billion tons over the next 10 years.
But widespread adoption of the technology is key.

 The paper discusses the economic and environmental benefits of broadband Internet delivery against the backdrop of global warming and radical climate change. Current [...]

Climate change and the future: How bleak is REALLY bleak?

In most civilised countries, it is quite a hard thing to explain to people how bad things are going to get if they don’t start changing their ways. In South Africa, it is even harder, because we’re already largely living a worst-case scenario on a daily basis.
Who needs environmental headaches when you have crime, corruption and Aids? 
When [...]

Outsourcing: what about environmental accountability?

In business, and especially when it comes to the outsourcing of production, the following truism is used as a benchmark for commercial success: Delivery must happen – right on time, right on price, and right in terms of quality.
Yet nowhere is there a clause stating that all production processes must be strictly carbon neutral, and [...]

The problem with blogging for environmental change

This weekend’s Sunday Times – News & Opinion carried a syndicated article in which anti-globalisation doyenne Naomi Klein  dealt my excitement – if not determination – to blog for environmental change a bit of a blow. 
Klein, the critically acclaimed Canadian activist and author of No Logo, makes the following point about blogging as a medium:

As [...]

Changing the way we view change

 Change is not a static concept. It’s a politicised word, an emotionally loaded and politically engaged concept.
Conservative organisations and people who fear the future resist change. HR managers get trained to manage it, which in turn becomes the branded but somewhat ominous “change management”, a calculated process of minimising the damage impact of change on [...]

Defining “atrocity” in environmental terms

Let’s play a little game with words today.
My Oxford English dictionary defines an atrocity as “an extremely cruel or wicked act”. Given this definition, let us assume that “cruel” serves to describe the nature of the act in question, whilst “wicked” refers more to the intrinsic nature of the agent committing the act, i.e.:

“Cruel” – [...]