The Story of Cosmetics, released on 21st July 2010, examines the pervasive use of toxic chemicals in our everyday personal care products, from lipstick to baby shampoo. The seven-minute film reveals the implications for consumer and worker health and the environment, and outlines ways we can …
Sustainability
Economic Balance for a better Malta
Economic growth is at times necessary and at other times economic de-growth is necessary. The purpose of both growth and de-growth is balance. Balance is meaningful to us because it is that which maximises our wellbeing in that it brings us the most happiness and avoids the most suffering.
Story of Stuff Project – We Have Too Much Stuff
We have a problem with Stuff: we have too much of it, too much of it is toxic and we don’t share it very well. But that’s not the way things have to be. That’s the challenge our founder Annie Leonard unpacked in her groundbreaking 2007 online documentary,
Unsustainable Malta – Overpopulation, The Road to Hell
We have a dream of Malta as a cosmopolitan place ready for the future but there are things that cannot be achieved by just 400,000 people” “More foreign …
From Capitalism to a Sustainable World – The Transition
Capitalism is built on economic growth. French economist Thomas Piketty said “Capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies should be based”.
Life Aspirations as the Goal in a Sustainable World
We all have aspirations for our lives. Aspirations are good and should be the goal of human economic activity – what better goals could we have?
Sustainable Economy – The Tragedy of the Commons
This economic model also very cleverly displays where we are overshooting on the Earth’s ability to sustain humanity and life in general and also highlights where we are falling short of providing well-being for people in different countries or globally.
Economic Growth not the Answer, Sustainable Balance is
Economic growth has only delivered dilution of human values, waste, pollution, climate change, fresh water shortages and irreversible degradation of the environment and extinction of entire species.
Doughnut Economics: Paradigm Shift for 21st Century
The twenty first century task is clear: to create economics that create human prosperity in a flourishing web of life so that we can thrive in balance in the doughnuts safe and just space – Doughnut Economics
Fresh Water Shortages Threat for Malta
Aquifers are fresh water saturated underground layers of permeable rock, rock fractures, gravel, sand or silt from which water can be extracted. Malta ha…