Current Developments

Puma
Puma is is the first company in the world that gives insights in the environmental costs of its products. "Fundamentally, this analysis is about risk management for the environment, and for business, because you cannot separate the two," aldus Alan McGill, partner, PwC Sustainability and Climate Change. For more information go to Puma.

Our Common Future 2.0
Recently the Dutch crowdsourcing project Our Common Future (OCF) 2.0 presented the results of two year work of 400 people, working together to realise the book "Duurzaam Denken Doen". For more information go to the website of Our Common Future (in Dutch).

Tres Hombres
You always thought your goods could and should be transported more sustainable. You are totally right, windpower is clean, green and fair, the only sustainable alternative. From now on, you can send your packets (small and big) by sailing general cargo ship Tres Hombres. For more information go to the website of Tres Hombres.

EU Climate Policy Tracker
The EU Climate Policy Tracker is a comprehensive review of policies of EU Member States based on 83 indicators. For more information go to Climate Policy Tracker.

FAO provides free access to statistics treasure trove
World's largest database of food, hunger and agricultural information FAOSTAT is now fully accessible online at FAOSTAT.

Plastic Soup
For everyone who is curious about the consequences of the plastic waste in the ocean, please click here.

Natural stone meal replaces the use of artificial manure
ARCADIS works on the introduction of the use of stone meal instead of artificial manure in the Dutch agriculture. Stone meal is comparable to volcanic ashes or as mud such as found on a tideland or in a streambed. More information here.

Vancouver gets a medal voor Green Olympics
Vancouver gets a medal for being the greenest Olympics; the question is: which one? Curious? Look here.

The Age Of Stupid
Why didn't we save ourselves when we had the chance? The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance? It was released in UK cinemas on 20 March 2009, and will be followed by other countries.
For more information go to The Age Of Stupid.

Club of Rome Global Assembly 2009
Wouter van Dieren, host of the conference: “The Club of Rome, together with the World Political Forum and Globe international, at its 2009 Global Assembly will address climate change, energy and economic recovery in close connection. This year’s Assembly is the last of seven stepping stones, seven global meetings, starting in Turin early 2008, in the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference being held in Copenhagen in December 2009, on which depends so much.”
(source: http://www.clubofrome.at/2009/amsterdam/index.html).
For more information go to Club of Rome Global Assembly.

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