http://onsustainability.com Just another CommonGroundPublishing weblog Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:01:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Kevin Bullis in MIT's Technology Review blog: Because of its generous incentives program, Germany, a country that gets about as much sun as the darkest parts of the United States, has become the largest market for solar power in the world. That in turn has helped create a thriving solar manufacturing ... http://onsustainability.com/2010/02/20/german-solar-industry-could-soon-collapse-what-could-that-mean-for-attempts-to-grow-solar-manufacturing-in-the-united-states/ A review of the literature by H. Charles J. Godfray, John R. Beddington, Ian R. Crute, Lawrence Haddad, David Lawrence, James F. Muir, Jules Pretty, Sherman Robinson, Sandy M. Thomas, Camilla Toulmin in Science for 12 February 2010: The past half-century has seen marked growth in food production, allowing for a dramatic ... http://onsustainability.com/2010/02/19/food-security-the-challenge-of-feeding-9-billion-people/ From Jessica Lichtenstein, de zeen design magazine Designers Victor Massip and Laurent Lebot of Faltazi have designed a conceptual system where water is recycled and waste is broken down by worms inside the kitchen.  Called Ekokook, the project aims to process waste as close as possible to the point where it’s ... http://onsustainability.com/2010/01/26/ekokook-by-faltazi/ From El Mercurio. Desde el martes hasta hoy se desarrolla la Sexta Conferencia Mundial sobre Sostenibilidad Ambiental, Cultural, Económica y Social en el Aula Magna “Mario Jaramillo” de la Universidad de Cuenca. La cita está coordinada por la Universidad de Illinois, Estados Unidos; el Observatorio Mundial de Asia y el Pacífico para ... http://onsustainability.com/2010/01/07/covering-of-the-sustainability-conference/ Two US public broadcasting news programs, The NewsHour and WorldFocus, have recently aired a report from British ITN television about recent action by China to restrict its export of rare earth minerals essential for the manufacture of green technologies including wind turbines and hybrid automobile engines. Some of these minerals ... http://onsustainability.com/2009/12/15/china-dominates-production-of-green-essential-minerals/ From, Maywa Montenegro, Seed Magazine. When delegates from 192 nations arrive in Copenhagen in December for the UN COP15 summit, they will confront a 181-page draft negotiation text, 2,000 bracketed passages still in dispute, and just 11 days in which to come to some sort of consensus. To power them through ... http://onsustainability.com/2009/12/14/organic-foods-are-exploding-in-popularity-but-fears-of-biotechnology%e2%80%94and-a-widespread-mistrust-of-science%e2%80%94won%e2%80%99t-help-efforts-to-create-a-truly-sustainable-agriculture/ From Megan R. Schwarzman and Michael P. Wilson in Science for 20 November 2009: By placing conditions on access to European markets, REACH has set what may become a de facto global standard. The influx of chemical information expected under REACH, as well as the potential for countries outside Europe to ... http://onsustainability.com/2009/11/30/comparing-us-and-eu-chemicals-policies/ [caption id="attachment_2056" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Bitu-man. A scarecrow in a "tailings pond" helps keep birds out of toxic mine water. CREDIT: MAGNUM PHOTOS"][/caption] From Sam Kean in Science for 20 November 2009: Environmental law says that tar sands companies must restore tailings ponds and pit mines back to "equivalent land capability," but that ... http://onsustainability.com/2009/11/30/eco-alchemy-in-alberta/ The final issue of Volume 5 of The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability is now available. Volume 5, Number 6 contains: Social Disharmony and Global Destruction by Ray M. Golding and Lynton G.F. Giles. Ecological Footprint, Environmental Sustainability, and Biodiversity Conservation: A Cross-Cultural Analysis by Ebenezer Aka. The Social Sustainability of ... http://onsustainability.com/2009/11/17/sustainability-journal-volume-5-now-complete/ From Ernest J. Yanarella, Richard S. Levine, Robert W. Lancaster, Sustainability: The Journal of Record. The sustainability movement from the grassroots to the global level has been both enriched and hobbled by the many different versions of sustainability articulated in scholarly and popular writings, town hall forums, and international conferences. The ... http://onsustainability.com/2009/11/04/research-and-solutions-green-vs-sustainability-from-semantics-to-enlightenment/