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In Brief: Big Foreheads Think Green

7 December, 2010

After decades of focused discussion and research, sustainability still remains a distant dream. Is it a failure of will, or do we simply not know how to live sustainably?

Concerned with the same question, the Pembina Institute, a Canadian-based environmental think-tank, decided to ask the experts. With help from McAllister Opinion Research, Pembina surveyed more than 5000 sustainable energy and climate change experts in Canada, Europe and the US. ...

Tags: oil sands, green economy, global sustainability

Published in: Water 37.1

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18 June, 2009 | William E. Rees

LET'S FACE IT – the really inconvenient truth is that the age of unconstrained exuberance is over. Techno-industrial society has broken faith with Gaia and is now wrestling its twin demons of hubris and greed. It is illusory to think that anything can ever be the same. Nevertheless, not a single candidate in the recent Canadian and American federal election campaigns fully acknowledged the global ecological crisis or recognized the transformative possibilities inherent in today’s economic downturn.