*Tardo-El-Eggo*

ghoti-max, your going to be my first interview,

Coburg needs a reno... I wanted it to happen, but I don't think the budget was realistic and Bracks mate Lorenz Grollo the developer, seems a bit shifty....

Working title ''Coolise Chats, Got Old and Fat''

I’ve been sitting on my thumbs a bit too long and I’m not seeking a project (film) to roll with.

Does anyone know of an interesting person/people/topic, locally for Melbourne I should muse myself in?

Any leads?

let me know when you move to Melbourne

is it free, I kinda got these two sorted with free apps

I thought it was on M&N, a tread mention Helium-4 being a great alternative energy resource instead of petrol.... apart from the fact most of it is on the moon..... is there any truth in this?

Peak Oil

In terms of fuel we seem a bit slow on transit to greener ways to work transport, logistics and power plants. if we run out of cheap oil in the next five to ten years.

That's true, Tim Jackson argues these are what we need to do to make a sustainably future.

Building a Sustainable Macro-Economy

Debt-driven materialistic consumption is deeply unsatisfactory as the basis for our macro-economy. The time is now ripe to develop a new macro-economics for sustainability that does not rely for its stability on relentless growth and expanding material throughput. Four specific policy areas are identified to achieve this:

1. Developing macro-economic capability
2. Investing in public assets and infrastructures
3. Increasing financial and fiscal prudence
4. Reforming macro-economic accounting

Protecting Capabilities for Flourishing

The social logic that locks people into materialistic consumerism is extremely powerful, but detrimental ecologically and psychologically. A lasting prosperity can only be achieved by freeing people from this damaging dynamic and providing creative opportunities for people to flourish – within the ecological limits of the planet. Five policy areas address this challenge.

1. Sharing the available work and improving the work-life balance
2. Tackling systemic inequality
3. Measuring capabilities and flourishing
4. Strengthening human and social capital
5. Reversing the culture of consumerism

Respecting Ecological Limits

The material profligacy of consumer society is depleting natural resources and placing unsustainable burdens on the planet’s ecosystems. There is an urgent need to establish clear resource and environmental limits on economic activity and develop policies to achieve them. Three policy suggestions contribute to that task.

1. Imposing clearly defined resource/emissions caps
2. Implementing fiscal reform for sustainability
3. Promoting technology transfer and international ecosystem protection.

Basil, I think the document is suggesting developing nations lead the way, biggest problems seemly to be individualism in consumerism, infrastructure and access to alternative fuel and transport.