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There are Solutions
There are Solutions
Published 05-14-09
Submitted by Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
- May 14, 2009 - Constantly facing the wall of sustainability challenges that confront our complex and globalized world can be a bit grizzly. Reading well-researched publications on the matter, such as Thomas Homer-Dixon's The Upside of Down - while highly informative and seminal-can sometimes add to one’s overall sense of dread.
For this reason, when an author and thinker so thoroughly immersed in the issues as Homer-Dixon chimes in with a positive opportunity to make specific, measurable change for the better, one's ears ought to perk up. His overview of the positive potential of "clean coal" as a source of energy gives cause for reflection, in spite of the many concerns raised with the combustion of coal.
His views are in many ways backed up by one of Canada's leading science-based blogs on the subject of climate change, Carbonnation. The blog has been tracking the scientific and political prospects of several clean coal projects for some time. Most recently it reflected on the fate of the FutureGen project south of the border.
We know by now that there are no quick fixes. All the more reason to take the time to examine and openly consider some of the slower fixes, no matter how oxymoronic they may at first sound. Clean coal may be one such example.
By Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
Lecture "“ "How to save the world"
On Tuesday, May 19 from 7-8pm, Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum will host a debate open to the public and free of charge. The debate will feature author Thomas Homer-Dixon, Terry Anderson from Property and Environment Research Centre (PERC), and American journalist and author Gregg Easterbrook and will focus on the best ways and policies to protect the earth.
About CBSR: Founded in 1995, CBSR is a business-led, non-profit corporate social responsibility (CSR) consultancy and peer-to-peer learning organization that provides its members with candid counsel and customized advisory services as they formulate powerful business decisions that contribute to a better world.
Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
Founded in 1995, CBSR is a business-led, non-profit corporate social responsibility (CSR) consultancy and peer-to-peer learning organization that provides its members with candid counsel and customized advisory services as they formulate powerful business decisions that contribute to a better world.
