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The A-Team

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

I do love it when things seem to be coming together. I know that I have banged on about the book Natural Capitalism to the point that you are probably being sick if it…but boy is it great when you see some of the concepts  being put into action. Check this out….a group called the Earth Economics have re-valued the lower Mississippi Delta in-line with the same kind of principles espoused in Natural Capitalism. It makes for interesting reading…and makes me feel really good that there are positive things going on.

Bob’s blog looks pretty interesting in general actually.

Nature is a sore loser

Friday, June 11th, 2010

I just love this quote from Natural Capitalism (Pge 316)….

‘Whilst it is unwise to believe in any one environmental projection of the future, it is important to bear in mind that nature bats last and owns the stadium’

…it just says it all for me on the issue of climate change. Nobody knows for sure what is going to happen with global warming but, whatever your view is, we need to keep nature ‘happy’ because she is holding all the cards. I guess the long and the short of it is we need her for the game to continue, she doesn’t need us!

So how do we respond to nature being such a sore loser? (more…)