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Thinking globally

Fundamental shift in banking

16 April 2013
On 13 March 2013, the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), a network of the world’s leading sustainable banks, issued a declaration in Berlin outlining how the banking system should be transformed. The declaration calls for a fundamental shift in how banks operate in order to make them more transparent, sustainable and diverse. read more
Responsible finance
Gunter Pauli ©Andrew Smith Lewis

The Blue Economy: waste not, want not

9 April 2013
Responding to people’s needs by recognising the full potential of whatever is locally available, or, better still: putting nature back on its evolutionary path. This is professor Gunter Pauli’s Blue Economy in a nutshell. Pauli: ‘In nature, waste does not exist and there is no unemployment. Recognising the opportunities of everything around us is the key to a system that may provide for the entire world population. Without depleting mother nature.’ read more
Sustainable development
A micro hydrodam along the Mhakuhou River in East Sumba supplies 105 homes with electricity.

100% renewable energy on Sumba

26 March 2013
Energy & Climate | Food & Agriculture
Sustainable beans

Agro-ecology is the answer

26 March 2013
According to Irene Cardoso, professor of soil science and vice president of the Brazilian Agro-ecology Association, we are not asking the right questions when it comes to the role of agriculture in feeding a growing world population. But when we do, we see that agro-ecology is the only answer. read more
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