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.
The Story of 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, The Story of Stuff, which …
Unsustainable Malta – 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 …
A Sustainable World – The Transition
Capitalism is built on economic growth. French economist Thomas Piketty said “Capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities …
A Sustainable World – Life’s Aspirations as Goals
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? We like …
A Sustainable World – The Tragedy of the Commons
We should start laying the foundations for a more ecologically sound and collaborative society and economy. In her book Doughnut Economics, Kate Raworth …
A Sustainable World – Balance is the Key
Continuous Economic growth is the goal which every country aspires to. It is the promise of every political party worldwide at every election and yet it …
Doughnut Economics: Paradigm Shift for 21st Century
The 21st 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 …
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…