Archive for 2010

Recent sustainable business news


Even after the Nike sweatshop scandals, high profile UK companies, including Gap, Next and Marks & Spencer have been reported as continuing these practices in India–with pay rates as low as 25 cents per hour. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/08/gap-next-marks-spencer-sweatshops Ecuador has proposed an innovative mechanism for making a national contribution to the control of carbon emissions.  It proposes [...]

Posted by: Geoff Wells on Monday, 16th Aug, 2010

Sustainability news items


Here are some recent sustainability news items I’ve been tracking: Emergence of Roundup-resistant weeds: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/business/energy-environment/04weed.html?src=me&ref=homepage Decline of North American bee populations: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/02/food-fear-mystery-beehives-collapse Climate science defence in open letter: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/06/climate-science-open-letter Climate policy shift: working behind emissions reduction: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8673828.stm A fishery conservation success story: North Sea cod http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/sustainable-again-ndash-the-north-sea-cod-saved-by-careful-conservation-1973928.html

Posted by: Geoff Wells on Friday, 21st May, 2010

Ian Lowe’s “A Big Fix”


-1- One of the more unexpected legacies of the Howard era has been the emergence of a coterie of genuine public intellectuals; or rather, people who think for a living and have decided, because of the urgency of the times, to enter the more open eras of public discourse. They have, in fact, created a [...]

Posted by: Geoff Wells on Tuesday, 16th Mar, 2010

Conservation industry: published article


Here is an article I recently co-authored with CSIRO researchers, entitled “A conservation industry for sustaining natural capital and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes’, which appear in the February 2010 issue of ‘Ecological Economics’.  It is a broad survey of the literature pertaining the the conditions needed for a conservation industry to evolve.  The abstract [...]

Posted by: Geoff Wells on Monday, 8th Feb, 2010

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