The Davos countdown has begun, as some of the world’s most powerful embark on the ritual trek up the Magic Mountain. What should be expected from this glitzy dialogue in this Year of Unreasonableness. Davos this year is titled The Great Transformation. But can Davos offer real alternatives or will it serve up a smiling, gritted-teeth espousal that ‘business as usual’ can and should be sustained…read my response to Mr Wolf’s proposed ‘seven ways to fix the system’ on OpenDemocracy @ http://bit.ly/wP96tP…
The World Economic Forum has launched its latest report on sustainable consumption in advance of its presentation and debate in Davos later this month. Entitled More with Less: Scaling Sustainable Consumption and Resource Efficiency, the report sets out the case for companies, governments and in particular plain old citizens to embrace sustainable consumption as a means of advancing the transition to a sustainable economy.…
Berlin for a new-year break was fun despite the warm rain and dangerously tossed fireworks that set fire to my child’s shoe and stocking. Positively, exploring Berlin revealed many reasons for its reputation as Europe’s most fashionable city. But watchful experiences revealed an endemic, almost casual, street-level racism that left unchecked will ultimately condemn the city to its troubling German roots rather than its aspiring cosmopolitan future.…
