Fraser Los

In December 2002, the United Nations declared the period from 2005 to 2014 the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD). As with any global endeavour, eloquent proclamations about the initiative are easy to find. Just take a look at the DESD website, which is constantly updated with glowing pronouncements explaining the UN’s mission to infuse sustainability into education curricula worldwide. ...

Deep Economy, Bill McKibben, New York: Times Books, 2007.

Bill McKibben’s writing is like brain candy for the environmentally aware. Always concise and candid, he manages to say all the right things at just the right time. In Deep Economy, McKibben once again tackles a vast topic – this time the persistent paradigm of “endless economic growth” – only to distill it down to polite conversation full of anecdotal nuggets. He argues that the “culture of More” is the root cause of our current environmental crises. ...