Looking Through A Gender Lens: Water in the Green Economy Every crisis can be an opportunity for addressing the root causes. Yet all too often the responses tend to be transactional in nature; rarely integrated or transformational. Such small adjustments seldom help us move towards solving the crisis itself. So far the Rio+20 negotiations on Sustainable Development talks have ignored the root causes and instead have focused on small changes. By Shiney Varghese
Investing in Women in Agriculture: Instrumentalization vs. Transformation Twenty years ago during the first Earth Summit, women organized a Women’s Action Agenda for a Healthy Planet. As their motto, they proclaimed: “Women do not want to be mainstreamed into a polluted stream: We want the stream to be clean, clear and healthy.”
Mobilizing Women’s “Power of the Purse” to Help Achieve Sustainable Consumption The World Business Council for Sustainable Development projects that, “As global population grows to an expected 9 billion people by 2050…we will need 2.5 Earths to meet current demand.” By Diane MacEachern
How Germany Became Europe’s Green Leader This article examines how German environmental policymaking over the last 40 years transformed Europe’s economic engine into the international driver of green growth.
Vermont Renewable Energy Tour - Greening the Economy If Germany can phase out nuclear power, Vermont can do it – and sooner. This is the takeaway for Jochen Flasbarth, President of Germany’s Federal Environment Agency, after visiting Vermont. By Jochen Flasbarth, President of Germany’s Federal Environment Agency
Leading the Way or Lights Out? Germany’s Nuclear Exit and U.S. Energy Perspectives - Greening the Economy One reason why Germany seems more successful than the US in transitioning toward a low-carbon economy is a stronger political consensus on the right way forward. This is the takeaway of Franz Untersteller, Minister for the Environment, Climate, and Energy of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after a visit to Washington DC.
European Union Green Jobs Tour 2011 - Greening the Economy In cooperation with the BlueGreen Alliance, the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Climate Network brought eight representatives of labor unions and environmental organizations on a green-jobs focused tour to Europe from September 26 to October 5, 2011. By Participants of the Green Jobs Tour 2011 in Schleswig-Holstein. © Heinrich Boell Foundation.
Gaining Strength – Clean Energy Solutions for a Resilient Economy - Greening the Economy On September 20th, policy makers from Germany and the United States came together to discuss common ways for making renewable energies the driving force of industrial revolution of the 21st century. The conference took place as part of the Climate Network of the Heinrich Boell Foundation and marked the release of the publication Sharing Solutions: Transatlantic Cooperation for a Low-Carbon Economy. By © Heinrich Boell Foundation
Mental Infrastructures: How Growth Entered the World and Our Souls In light of the recent ecological, financial and economic crisis, criticizing the all-powerful paradigm of economic growth is necessary. But growth as will and representation not only pervades corporate headquarters, stock exchanges and ministries, but also our heads. The essay of Harald Welzer makes the mechanisms and principles distinct on which our ideals and wishes are based, and clears the way for change. By Harald Welzer
Greening the Economy- Campaign Handbook The campaign handbook is an online guide to successful political campaigning. Its authors are mainly Green Party campaigners and activists from a range of countries across Europe, each with a different background, all with valuable experience to share.