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...animals and other biomatter we extract from the earth each year exceeds what the planet can replace by an estimated 20%, meaning it takes 14.4 months to replenish what we use in 12--deficit spending of the worst kind. Sustainable development works to reverse that, to expand the resource base and adjust how we use it so we're living off biological interest without ever touching principal. "The old environmental movement had a reputation of elitism," says Mark Malloch Brown, administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). "The key now is to put people first and the environment second...
...theorists and manifestos. Besides McDonough and Braungart's Cradle to Cradle, there is Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken (founder of gardening supplier Smith & Hawken), Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins; it makes a strong case that natural resources should be just as valued a part of our capital base as factories and machines. Biomimicry by Janine Benyus encourages companies to look to nature for possible design techniques. She cites San Francisco's Iridigm, whose flat screens for mobile electronic devices produce color in a manner similar to the way microscopic structures create color on butterflies' wings...
...Washington Consensus might have worked better had Washington preached open democracy as earnestly as open markets. In giant Sao Paulo, Lula's home base, single mother Janecleide Batista, 24, lost her job as a telephone operator when her company was sold to a foreign firm. Now she lives in a squatters' shack on a small vacant lot with eight other families. To her, free-market reforms mean that Brazil's World Cup-champion soccer team "gets free new cars, while we sit here on the street and get nothing." The Bush bailouts may buy time, but they...
...Republic, which has so far escaped the worst of the economic downturn hurting most of Western Europe, the deluge represents a sharp reversal of fortune. Thirteen people died in the floods and 215,000 were evacuated, while the damages may exceed $2 billion, with the country's infrastructure, manufacturing base and tourism industry taking the biggest hits. More than 30 bridges have collapsed, and chemical and paper plants along the Vltava and Elbe Rivers have ground to a halt. The country's GDP growth could slow this year by .3 to .5 percentage points as a result. A drop...
Graham, who has spent his career studying world religions, said that in a pluralistic society, a divinity school must have a broader base. Of the Christian focus, Graham said, “I don’t think that’s going to go away...