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Green Gurus: September 2010

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A discussion of the pioneers of the environmental movement. Tuesday, September 21, 2010. Garrett Hardin, Tragedy of the Commons. A long-time believer in euthanasia, Hardin stuck by his beliefs and committed suicide along with his wife in September 2003 having been diagnosed with heart disease and Lou Gehrig's disease respectively. However despite his views on population he was succeeded by five children. Garrett is less famous as the author of Garrett Hardin's Three Laws of Human Ecology:. In the latter ...

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Green Gurus: June 2009

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A discussion of the pioneers of the environmental movement. Saturday, June 27, 2009. McDonough and Braungart: Cradle to Cradle. Michael Braungart was born in Germany in 1958. A chemist by training, his career has taken in the private sector, academia and a substantial amount of work as a Greenpeace activist. He runs his own business and is a Professor at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. McDonough and Braungart’s big idea was the Cradle to Cradle concept outlined in their eponymous 2002 book. They...

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Green Gurus: November 2009

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A discussion of the pioneers of the environmental movement. Wednesday, November 25, 2009. M King Hubbert: Peak Oil. Hubbert made many contributions to geophysics, but his name will live in perpetuity as the man who gave us the bell shaped oil production curve that bears his name and, as a consequence, was a substantial contributor to the hotly debated topic of ‘peak oil’. Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.". The man himself is reported to have been abrasive and having a shor...

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Green Gurus: October 2009

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A discussion of the pioneers of the environmental movement. Friday, October 23, 2009. Herman Daly: Steady State Economics. Daly’s basic maxim is that, as the economy approaches the scale of the whole Earth, it must observe the physical limitations that the Earth places on it. This would create a steady state economy, a concept that can be traced back to the classical economics of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. Daly’s time at the World Bank appears to have been frustrating for him. At his leaving ad...

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Green Gurus: January 2010

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A discussion of the pioneers of the environmental movement. Saturday, January 2, 2010. David Holmgren and Bill Mollison: Permaculture. All my life we've been at war with nature. I just pray that we lose that war. There are no winners in that war." Bill Mollison. When a reviewer described Mollison as seditious his riposte was:. Demonstrating his pithy humour, he went on to declare in the same interview:. Holmgren, on the other hand, appears to see permaculture as more of a philosophical mindset to be appl...

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Green Gurus: July 2009

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A discussion of the pioneers of the environmental movement. Saturday, July 25, 2009. Rachel Carson: Silent Spring. The bulk of the book explains how these chemicals work and what their effect is on different aspects of the biosphere including water, soil and air. Carson points out that the simplistic safety tests for pesticides did not take into consideration the following key factors:. Longer term effects on cells such as genetic damage and cancer. Silent Spring is cited as an influence by Al Gore and A...

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Green Gurus: September 2009

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A discussion of the pioneers of the environmental movement. Tuesday, September 8, 2009. Arne Næss, Deep Ecology. In 1973 he published the first description of deep ecology, the branch of green thinking with which he will always be associated. He believed that eco-philosophy was personal and developed his own which he called Ecosophy T. He was knighted by King Harald in 2005 and made a commander with star of the Royal Norwegian order of St Olav First Class. He died in 2009 at the age of 96. 3 Humans have ...

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Green Gurus: August 2009

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A discussion of the pioneers of the environmental movement. Monday, August 24, 2009. James Hansen: Nasa Climatologist and Activist. The short answer is that Hansen has never been afraid to lift his head above the parapet. 1 The earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time since measurements began;. 2 This warming can now be associated with the greenhouse effect with a 99% confidence. 3 The warming is already severe enough to start causing dangerous impacts such as heat waves. The attempts at censorship didn’...

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Green Gurus: August 2010

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A discussion of the pioneers of the environmental movement. Tuesday, August 24, 2010. Ray Anderson: Green Business. During a speech to the UCLA Anderson School of Management in January 2010, Ray Anderson announced he had been diagnosed with cancer. If we can do it, anyone can. If anyone can, everyone can. Anderson’s response to his "spear in the chest" is the radical ‘Mission Zero’ commitment to have a zero ecological footprint by 2020. In order to achieve this, Interface developed the idea of ‘Mount...