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  Writing about sustainable development: An impassioned informal book review

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  Sustainable Development: This post isnt really about sustainable development. Its about writing about sustainable development. Actually, its about a particular type of writi

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  Transparency, Innovations and Renewal - from Businesses to Sustainable Aid Agencies

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  Sustainable Development: Justmeans has a lot of great conversations about how business are needing to become more transparent, how to uptake important innovations, and the de

  

  Sara Wolcott • April 12 • 1

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  Sandbag Construction: an Innovative Option for Public Housing?

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  Sustainable Development: When you think of South African townships, alternative building materials such as sandbags might not be the first thing that comes to mind. If Capeto

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  Transforming the Post Office for Sustainable Development

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  Sustainable Development: Today I ran across an article written by the New Economic Foundation (NEF) in the UK several months ago about transforming the Post Office into a com

  

  Sara Wolcott • April 08 • 1

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  Sustainable Visions

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  Sustainable Development: The words "Sustainable Development" in a lot of circles is synonymous not with progress, but rather, decline, retreat, deterioration, or my personal

  

  Kendra Pierre-Louis • April 08 • 3

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  Indigenous Knowledge as key to sustainable development

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  Sustainable Development: Here at Justmeans, we talk a lot about CSR and social engagement in business and the public sector. We could even say that public engagement - from s

  

  Sara Wolcott • April 07 • 1

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  Sustainable Design, the role of the architect, and a question of ethics

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  Sustainable Development: Lucien Le Grange, director of the School of Architecture at the University of Cape Town, writes: "The proponents of sustainability for housing or bui

  • April 06 • 0

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  Building in Sustainability

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  Sustainable Development: One of the key ideas of Sustainability is that well it sustains. It sticks around, it endures. But when you look at sustainable design it becomes sho

  

  Kendra Pierre-Louis • April 05 • 2

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  Does Sustainable Development demand a new definition of "Value"?

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  Sustainable Development: Sustainabilitysuggests all humanity has a similar interest in sustainable housing or sustainable urban development; that if we simply recognized our

  • April 05 • 1

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  District Six: A Case Study in Unsustainable Development

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  Sustainable Development: Historically speaking, District Six an area established as the sixth official ward of the city of Cape Town in 1867 was home to a vibrant mixed commu

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  Penguins: friend or foe?

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  Sustainable Development: In my last post, I talked about the conservation aspect of Capetonian sustainable development and discussed the implied goal of maintaining biodivers

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  Yemen: thirsty for hope

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  Sustainable Development: Recently I've been researching Yemen - and I feel I want to cry out for this oft-forgotten, beautiful country. Once dubbed the 'happy Arabia' by the

  

  Sara Wolcott • April 02 • 0

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  Green and Great Radiant Heat

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  Sustainable Development: A few years ago I was backpacking around Europe and had the fortune to crash with a friend at her place in Istanbul. Along with a head full of memori

  

  Kendra Pierre-Louis • March 31 • 0

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  Conservation Efforts in Cape Town

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  Sustainable Development: In my last post, I alluded to some huge and complex political and cultural identity issues associated with sustainable development in a place like So

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  Accounting and Sustainable Development

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  Sustainable Development: One of the biggest impediments against Sustainable Development is the kind of cost-benefit analysis which leads to erroneous conclusions that its bet

  

  Kendra Pierre-Louis • March 30 • 0

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  Media as Positive, Helpful Citizens? - Live Blog no 3

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  Sustainable Development: The questions from the floor at the Pearson Debates are mixed. This blog prsents a range of some of the questions that were raised. There is a fair a

  

  Sara Wolcott • March 29 • 0

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  Live Blogging - Is there a media crisis?

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  Sustainable Development: Christian Toennson, originally from Denmark, works with a wide range of media. He divided Media CSR into two areas - and suggested that the combinati

  

  Sara Wolcott • March 29 • 0

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  Live blogging: The Pearsons Debate - good corporate citizenship in 21st media organisation

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  Sustainable Development: The media holds great power in the present and in future generations. While we often complain about the media, the question, what does it mean for me

  

  Sara Wolcott • March 29 • 2

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  Africa vs. the Green Building Industry

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  Sustainable Development: This post comes to you from the shores Kalk Bay, just south of Cape Town, South Africa. Ill be in Africa for a month, doing research for an upcoming

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  How green is polystyrene?

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  Sustainable Development: [Much of the information from this post is adapted from Environmental Building News.] /> When it comes to buildings, "green" and "energy efficient"

  • March 26 • 1

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