Monthly Archives: January 2011

Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the next industrial revolution (Little, Brown: New York, 1999) pp16-17: Beginning in the mid-1980s, Swiss industry analyst Walter Stahel and German chemist Michael Braungart independently proposed a new industrial … Continue reading →

So, I was reading a World Business Council for Sustainable Development report on ‘sustainable consumerism’ over my lunchtime fallafel (literally looking for the laughs), when I found an interesting-looking reference to an egregious-looking report on the subject by WWF, entitled … Continue reading →

I was reading a recent speech by a Government minister, John Hayes, the other day.  Never mind the policy content, the bit I liked was where the minister made the argument that it was important to invest in skills training … Continue reading →

A living organism: ‘feeds upon negative entropy,’ attracting, as it were, a stream of negative entropy upon itself, to compensate the entropy increase it produces by living. Erwin Schroedinger, What is Life, 1943, pp78f

Wotan is the Norse and Germanic god, of course. He’s a fallible god, even though he is the chief of the gods.  The telling of the tale varies, but in the version I was brought up with he commissions a … Continue reading →