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Articles Supporting Sustainability

Sustainable Pacific Grove presents the following as part of our effort to supply material that will expand understanding of what it means to live in a sustainable fashion.


Green Contest

Here is an article written by Sharon Lloyd of Pacific Grove ( a member of SPG ) that shows the type of thinking that will make a difference, if we all start to approach our lives this way.

Click here to read Sharon's thoughts.


Exponential Growth

  Simon Ratcliffe is a good thinker who is showing the absurdity of continuing the current exponential growth rates of just about everything. It is simply mathematically impossible with finite planetary resources.  It also leads to some interesting conclusions about localisation and simplicity.

To see the Ratcliffe article Living in a state of exponential delusion click here


Amory Lovins at Stanford, 2007

Amory Lovins represents the fifth and final MAP/Ming Visiting Professor. As co-founder of Rocky Mountain Institute, Mr. Lovins brings a longstanding commitment to energy efficiency and the relentless pursuit of environmentally sound energy habits and design standards. Mr Lovins was willing to open his academic program to the broader community, resulting in a series of public lectures that offered greater awareness of energy efficient practices to all.

Each of the five lectures can be viewed at the website below. ( Each is about 1 1/2 hours in length. At the site you may also download a pod-cast of each lecture and-or the slides from each lecture, as PDF files. )

http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid231.php

This lecture series was sponsored by Mineral Acquisition Partners Inc. (MAP) as part of its commitment to fostering sustainable energy education.


Updated June 5, 2007.