Sustainability

Do more than just energy efficiency

Everybody talks about energy efficiency in Germany, specially engineers. But there is something you need to do: Get it to the poor, payable. Make it simple, accessable, not by high tech. There are a three things that make a difference: Education, Energy and Health. If you need to go four miles in the desert to get ...

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Dot Earth – change in behaviour?

John Sterman, an expert on system dynamics and Professor for Management at MIT Sloan School of Management answers some interesting questions about the future in the blog: Dot Earth. We learn a lot about people slow down their consumtion in the crisis - the big questions are: Will that last when the crisis is over? Will ...

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cooling down – simulation game

Simulation zum Klima - auch aus Deutschland. Cooling Down ist (k) ein Spiel Cooling Down in Indien 2010 Der Inhalt ist klar: Die Energiewende ist notwendig. Die Klimaaufheizung schreitet voran, die globalen Naturkatastrophen nehmen zu. Die Spieler – sie repräsentieren die Weltgemeinschaft - haben aber nicht mehr viel Zeit, den weltweiten Anstieg des Treibhausgases Kohlendioxid entscheidend zu ...

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Simulation of the Climate

What is next after Copenhagen?  Some people try to keep the ball roling. Create simulations, make it visible, learn about system dynamics: The Climate Interactive team, led by Sustainability Institute, delivered big results in Copenhagen at the UNFCCC's COP15 climate conference. Have a look at this pages "The Climate Scoreboard" and see ...

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Companies have Substainable Reports

Just have a look at this page: Ethical Performance is the monthly business newsletter on corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investment, now in its eleventh year of publication. This month published is the Report of Henkel - also online The Sustainability Report provides an overview of the main ecological and social developments in fiscal ...

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