A thought provoking paper came out in January from the World Economic Forum and Accenture:  More with Less, Scaling Sustainable Consumption and Resource Efficiency  The full document is available here. In May, TYF are hosting a two day workshop at the Hay Festival to start to imaging what change would actually look like if deployed [...]

  The International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2011 is unsettling, at best: On planned policies, rising fossil energy  use will lead to irreversible and potentially catastrophic climate change. Global energy-related emissions of  carbon dioxide (CO2)  – the principal greenhouse gas  – jumped by 5.3% in  2010  to a  record  30.4  gigatonnes (Gt). In the New Policies Scenario, our central [...]