Caption: "Sadly, the only proven way to achieve global GHG reductions so far has been economic recession." Comment: Fortunately, shifting to 100% renewables would catalyze the global transition to durable prosperity and community well-being in a way that would eliminate GHG production AND grow the economy <<continued>>. (See also: strategic sustainability, natural capitalism, its four strategies, and RMI's Reinventing Fire [energy] Program.)
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March 30, 2014 at 12:09PM 
The Horace Albright Lecture in ConservationJared Diamond, The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Socities, WED, April 30, 2015, 7-8:30 p.m., International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave, UC Berkeley, limited seating (free), Videotap available at http://nature.berkeley.edu/albright
June 16, 2012 at 05:34PM Stepping up to the global challenge of trying to keep plastic waste from clogging waterways, coastlines and landfills, UC Berkeley is the first university in the world to embrace the Plastic Disclosure Project. The project aims to use the concept of a plastic footprint — like a carbon footprint — as a way of stimulating change in the way the world deals with an important but problematic resource
