Make Wealth History
Blog URL http://makewealthhistory.org
Located Luton, Bedfordshire United Kingdom
Tags social justice, consumerism, environment, climate change, development, poverty, wealth, economics, politics
If everyone on the planet enjoyed the same quality of life as we do, one world would not be enough. If we can't create a fairer world at this level of consumption, then we have to scale back our lifestyles, for the planet and for each other.
Latest Blog Posts
- What we learned this week on Nov 22, 2009 in miscellaneous
An estimated $100 million of hardwood timber has been pillaged from Madagascar’s protected rainforests since the political coup in March. Most of it is bound for China. Transport minister Lord Adonis took a tour of Britain’s railways re...
- Plane Stupid’s striking new ad on Nov 21, 2009 in climate change film media travel and transport plane stupid
If you hit the cinema this weekend, you may see Plane Stupid’s new ad. What do you think? ...
- Stoke on Trent is the first 10:10 city on Nov 20, 2009 in climate change transition towns stoke on trent
Who’d have thought? Last night Stoke on Trent became the first city to sign up to the 10:10 commitment. The council, the college, Staffordshire University, businesses, churches, Port Vale Football club, and several schools have all signed up, m...
- More talk, more promises, more hunger on Nov 19, 2009 in development food FAO world summit on food security
This week has been the UN’s World Summit on Food Security, which makes it a good time to share this rather startling graph out of the Financial Times. That leap is down to the soaring food prices that we saw in 2008, when the price of rice, whe...
- the archbishop on growth on Nov 18, 2009 in economics religion growth rowan williams
Both at the individual and the national level we have to question what we mean by ‘growth’. The ability to produce more and more consumer goods is in itself and entirely mechanical measure of wealth. It sets up the vicious cycle in which...
- The Queen’s speech – above all, ensure growth on Nov 18, 2009 in current affairs equality events politics growth
As parliament begins its next session today, the queen gave her usual speech outlining the various bills the government would be tabling over the coming months. There’s a summary of them here, and there are some welcome ideas – banning cl...
- carbon counting mythbusters on Nov 17, 2009 in climate change websites graphics guardian
Nicely presented little interactive quiz on the Guardian website today. It’ll only take you a minute to do.
