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A crisis is a terrible thing to waste – moving from blame to redesigning more resilient systems

A few weeks ago Naomi Klein provided us with a very close-up yet systems-like view of looking at this disaster in her Guardian column – Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world. In this article she takes us into local meetings, and looks at wider policy initiatives. As she says, “the most positive possible [...]

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2010 07 18 Will Allen environment
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Environment Prize goes to Buzz Holling

Canadian ecologist and scientist Crawford “Buzz” Holling has won the 2008 Volvo Environment Prize for his theories on how ecosystems deal with sudden changes. His message stressing the importance of increasing our society’s ability to be flexible and cope with change provides a pathway forward to those worrying about global climate change and unexpected natural [...]

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