Q-Links

Midway

Too horrible to watch with a conscious mind: Midway. Message from the Gyre. Thanks to YouTube being the channel that makes it possible that also these inconvenient truths are shared.

The maker of this sad document is Chris Jordan. Check his personal website for other visual statements that should inspire us to act.

About Green Business

Not such a usefull link ( About Green Business), but a statement by Paul Hawken to think about: "Business is the only mechnism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse environmental and social degradation."

Sure ... Business has that power. Which leads to the real question: What will trigger (the huge global) corporations to use this power to reverse global degradation? What's their interest (as a business) other than not to provocate opinionleaders?

Sure ... some CEO's are environmentalists. But what's their manouvring space with short term focussed greedy shareholders breathing in their necks?

Ecology links

The weblog Triple Pundit pretends: "Serving people, planet and profit: An 'integrated bottom-line' approach to looking at business from the next generation of MBAs". And indeed they do by gathering a lot of informative links to all aspects of green innovation, sustainability and so on. Saves a lot of googling time.

The engagement of the "next generation" shocked my believe that in relation to environmental issues MBA's should be mistrusted. But it was also my idea that in the near future it would be impossible to get sustainability issues high ranking on the political agenda. There are signals that might prove that I was wrong.

Is a new generation with substantially more notice of the constraint called planet taking over?