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Sunday, 06 January 2008 |
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T he Australian government supported the US in proposing that future climate change agreements should include some real targets for China, India and Brazil, the fastest growing economies on the planet. The logic is that these large and rapidly growing nations will contribute most to the growth in climate change over the next 12 years. Hear Malcolm and Giovanni discuss the numbers on The Generator
Others point out that the US is still the world's largest emitter and that reducing consumption by the mega rich is more important than limiting growth in the developing countries. Still others point out that any limits on consumption are meaningless if population continues to grow exponentially. The figures given in the graph here demonstrate the reasonably generous scenario that total global resource consumption doubles, population growth rates halve and we reduce the wealth gap between the rich and poor nations to almost half what it is now. Whether the world can sustain this growth rate is extremely unlikely but this is commonly given as a politically palatable solution.
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
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The Ebono Institute supports artists, activists and business with a purpose by providing communication services and electronic infrastructure. 
The recent adoption by the mainstream media of the issues that we have been promoting for the last five years means that we are revisting many of these issues and packaging them for mainstream consumption. The latest new package is World Poverty for Dummies written by four authors from World Vision. The Institute's Giovanni Ebono edited the work, helping the authors take their knowledge of this vast and complex issue and package it in a format suitable for the mainstream reader. We are happy to promote it through our commercial interface, One Stop Green shop . Our weekly news service is still available through the link at the left, but it now comes from www.generator.com.au We also continue to provide editorial and communication services to our regular clients and community groups.
For more information about our business services see www.ebono.com.au
Our latest work has been building automated database publishing services using XML inDesign and Microsoft Word or Open Office so that organisations can produce corporate quality sales materials automatically, for a fraction of the price.
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Friday, 04 April 2008 |
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The planet has a temperature. It is now 0.6 degrees above its pre-industrial temperature and rising. Unless we act to address this, the illness could be fatal, to us. Until the second world war the average surface temperature of the planet was below 15.1degrees Celsius. For the last twenty years it has barely dropped below 15.3. It now appears to be rising at 0.1 degrees a decade. The rate of increase is accelerating. On current trends, it will crack 16 degrees before the end of the century. A century ago it was well below 15. If you think about the weather, an increase of a degree here or there seems pretty minimal. The temperature across Australia varies from high thirties in the centre to low teens in Tasmania. The drier parts of the continent regularly experience a daily fluctuation of twenty degrees. It makes fractions of a degree appear minimal. It does not intuitively make sense that a small increase in average surface temperature can have a dramatic effect on the planet. Unless, that is, we think about the planet differently. |
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