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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: growth
South Africa is dying of growth
[This article was commissioned by the Mail & Guardian in June 2010, but not published.] We’re all on a ship. Let’s call it, oh, what the hell, the Titanic Earth. We’re steaming along at a reasonable clip, but there are… … Continue reading
‘The climate change bottom line’
Published in The Weekender, 24 October 2009 There’s a widespread and significant misconception about the likely effects of strong action to cut or “mitigate” greenhouse gas emissions: that it will hurt economies. The chair at a recent climate debate in … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, GPD, growth, Krugman, Waxman-Markey
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