May 2010 Blog Posts (7)

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~Free biomass/fertilizer for your Yarden - Opportunities to assist waste reclamation effort:

Any vermiCulturalists or Yarden-eers willing to take food prep waste from Community Kitchen & the Shalom Center? In a couple months, they will both be on the Southwest side of town.

I've now got one bike trailer to tackle the task with, but could use more drivers & riders to assist.

Also could use coffee grounds, sawdust, browns & greens to mix…

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RACHAEL's Cafe is located between the laundromat & salon on 3rd near Grant downtown

Wrkng Grp Conveners Meeting tonight (MONDAY the 17th)

7:PM @ Rachael's Cafe

Source: Ann Kreilkamp, Keith Johnson

mylo roze greenthecity@yahoo.com

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Waste & Compost group - Rhonda Baird

TUE MAY 18th 6-7:PM @…

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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist

– Kenneth Boulding



The problem is that growth drowns out the gains from increased efficiency and technological innovation…. even with the most optimistic likely uptake of low-carbon energy, it is seemingly impossible to reconcile a growing global economy with a good likelihood of limiting global temperature rise to 2C.

– Andrew Simms



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The Blue Economy: Cultivating a New Business Model for a Time of Crisis

by Gunter Pauli

How a new generation of entrepreneurs can bring innovations to the marketplace, secure the basic needs of all, and make sustainable businesses competitive.

Mere months after the 2008 financial meltdown, the International Labor Organization (ILO) reported the loss of 50 million jobs. Developing economies were deeply…

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I just read this interesting article in the IU news pages. It's about research conducted by Elinor Ostrum (the IU faculty member who recently won the Nobel Prize in Economics) and others, and it finds that communication can work better than penalties in preventing over-harvesting of shared resources.



http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/14395.html



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{EcoLink} ~ first week of MAY 2010 ~



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*Gulf Oil Spill action item

*EcoReport radio… Continue