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“Goodbye Green Growth”? Why problem of growth misidentifies our predicament
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Find out more »Bath University Public Lecture: The World We’ll Leave Behind: grasping the sustainability challenge
I-SEE Seminar ‘The World We’ll Leave Behind: grasping the sustainability challenge’ Professor William Scott, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Bath | Dr Paul Vare, University of Gloucestershire Abstract: It is now clear that human activity has influenced how the biosphere supports life on Earth, and given rise to a set of connected environmental and social problems. The core dilemma of our time is: How can we all live well, now and in the future, without compromising the ability of…
Find out more »Demain – Film and discussion with Rob Hopkins, Creator of the Transition Network at Komedia
Demain – Film on at Komedia in Bath on July 4th: If you are interested in Sustainability, Komedia will be showing Demaine a highly rated film which investigates solutions to the worlds pending environmental problems: ”Showing solutions, telling a feel-good story… this may be the best way to solve the ecological, economical and social crises that our countries are going through. After a special briefing for the journal Nature announced the possible extinction of a part of mankind before the end…
Find out more »Bath Repair Cafe – Public Meeting
Bath is soon to have its first Repair Café. For anyone interested in finding out what a Repair Café is or who would like to get involved, please come along to find out more.
Find out more »BRSLI Lecture: THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY Prospects and Challenges
In the space of just a few years, the circular economy has risen from a topic of purely academic interest to becoming a strategic goal for increasing numbers in commercial businesses, third sector organisations and the public sector. The concept of an economic system that productively generates new value steams from its own waste products, and creatively redesigns its outputs to reduce and ultimately eliminate the very concept of material and energetic ‘waste’ itself, has many attractive aspects. This talk…
Find out more »University of Bath Public Lecture: Marks and Spencer’s Plan A (Cancelled?)
This lecture may have been cancelled – it is not clear from the university’s website??????? Mike Barry, Director of Sustainable Business Plan A, Marks and Spencer – 19 April 2016 Further details when available here
Find out more »University of Bath: Special I-SEE / IET seminar ‘Securing the UK’s Energy Future’ Public Lecture
Special I-SEE / IET seminar ‘Securing the UK’s Energy Future’ on Monday 23 November 2015 at 18:30 Presented by Professor John Loughhead FREng FIET FCGI, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department of Energy and Climate Change Abstract: The UK has set itself one the most aggressive greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets in the world: an 80% cut by 2050. Much of the reduction will have to come from our energy systems, and that will mean great changes both in their design and in how we all use…
Find out more »University of Bath: I-SEE: Thinking The Twenty-First Century: ideas for the new political economy – Prof Malcolm McIntosh
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