Thoughts on Supporting Sustainable Community Change

Preliminary thoughts on a taxonomy of value for sustainable computing

In recognition of the various and imminent limits to global consumption-based growth, some quarters of the technology industry have begun to consider the novel use of computing to prevent, postpone, alleviate, or recover from a crisis in what could be called “sustainable computing.” There is, however, a great danger that certain inclinations of the technology sector will undermine the very goal...

Some Thoughts on How ICTs Could Really Change the World

Today’s real borders are not between nations, but between powerful and powerless, free and fettered, privileged and humiliated. Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another...New threats make no distinction between races, nations, or regions. A new insecurity has entered every mind, regardless of wealth or sta...

Some Thoughts on "Antitrust Policy" and the Antitrust Community

Breaking Resilience for a Sustainable Future: Thoughts for the Anthropocene

1 Ecology Department, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Bremen, Germany, 2 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 3 Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 4 Research and Development Center for Marine, Coastal and Small Islands, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia, 5 Theoretical Ecology and Modelling D...

Sustainable Development and Climate Change

Sustainability is defined in terms of four overlapping positions, ranging from very weak to very strong sustainability. The core idea is of a non-declining capital stock (including natural capital) over generational time. Weak sustainability positions emphasise capital substitution possibilities and the power of technical process to mitigate resource depletion and pollution problems. Climate ch...