Portland, Oregon, December 30, 2009 A small group of us had the opportunity this past week to meet with Sam Nelson visiting Portland from Australia thanks to the folks at Transition PDX. Sam is the co-founder of the Maia Maia Project, an innovative community based Emissions Reduction Currency System. He is also an owner of Greenbase, a business in Australia that provides emissions accounting services... [Read more]
Posts Tagged ‘Australia’
Friday, January 1st, 2010
Emissions Reduction Currency System – Austrailian Style
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Six Principles for a Sustainable Australia
My friend, Jerry Holtaway brought to my attention an interesting fellow, Barney Foran, an economist presently a visiting fellow with the Centre for Research and Environmental Studies (CRES) at the Australian National University in Canberra. Professor Foran calls out six principles essential to building a sustainable Australia. They are:
Stabilising human population number and age structure;
