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I am a sustainability writer and journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. A key interest is promoting understanding of the restorative economy – understanding the deep links between social injustices and inequality, the environment, economic myths, human culture and the huge potential of ecological restoration. I'm also an editor and speaker. More ...Twitter Updates
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- ‘Voices of Liberation: Albert Luthuli’
- The wonder and hope of planetary ecological restoration
- For more sustainability, add democracy
- The indigenous forester of Smutsville
- Buddhist economics
- Business Day: ‘Stop giving the government a free pass on nuclear power’
- South Africa slowly shredding democracy, in line with international best practice
- SAFCEI, COP 17 and climate change
- A UN office building without any light switches that’s also a power station
- ‘Climate justice for sustainable peace in Africa’
- Sunday Times: ‘Stop these crimes against humanity’
- Sunday Times: ‘Save us from the super-rich’
- City Press: ‘Equality is key in fight for the poor’
- M&G: ‘Getting our greenhouse in order’
- Sunday Times: ‘Can we fight corruption in a world that’s built on greed?’
- South Africa is dying of growth
- ‘Climate change and Southern Africa’
- Behind the shadows
- ‘Why “peak oil” collision provides opportunity for bold invention’
- ‘The climate change bottom line’
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Tag Archives: Business Day
Business Day: ‘Stop giving the government a free pass on nuclear power’
Published in Business Day, 25 November 2011 ‘The nuclear path will compound centralisation and elitism, and necessitate importing skilled foreign labour’ IS SA about to multiply and repeat the R40bn arms-deal debacle that has haunted our politics for more than … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Weinberg, arms deal, Business Day, Citigroup, corruption, Fukushima, Koeberg, Moody's, nuclear energy, renewable energy, World Bank
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‘Why “peak oil” collision provides opportunity for bold invention’
Published in Business Day, 8 January 2009 One day, oil production will begin declining. The world’s drivers and transport operators and airlines, not to mention fertiliser, plastics and pharmaceutical manufacturers, will file their usual orders — only to be met … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Day, Fatih Birol, Global Witness, IEA, peak oil, Simon Taylor, Virgin, Will Whitehorn
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