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Engineers and social scientists need to work together, said Roland Clift in the plenary session on Friday morning, speaking about Sustainable Consumption and Degrowth.Finding common language is difficult. He observed that in the degrowth debate th...

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Did you know that 85% of food production in developing countries comes from small farms? Scope for efficiency gains! Bigger farms like in Switzerland (dairy) and Spain (cheese, tigernuts) have much to gain as well.5% effiiciency gain in food secto...

Participants of the Third International Conference on Eco-Efficiency, held in Egmond aan de Zee, The Netherlands, June 9-11, 2010, discussed how to ensure that 8 billion people in developed and (former) developing countries can have a good life by...

1. Technology can do a lot2. But people need to buy it!3. Investments needed and a shift away from consumer society.4. Mindsets need to be changed, but people do not want to be told so.5. More leisure, less income are interesting thoughts, but if...

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Further Research needed on: 1. Potential for absolute decoupling: how far and how fast to go, can substantial environmental improvements be realised in combination with economic growth?2. Overall measurement of improvement, with explicit norm...

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Happy Earth Day! Here comes the oil spill! BP’s Deepwater Horizon, state of the art oil drilling platform digging into the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico 5,000 feet below explodes, killed 11 workers, burned into early morning Earth Day April 2010, t...

The end of the conference finds us all exhausted but content. We have been organizing this event for the last year, each Tuesday a team of 10 to 15 dedicated people meeting for hours to think and plan the event to its smallest detail. Organizing a...

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I´m new at blogging and perhaps its best to learn the ropes at a conference where the discussions don´t quite go so late. On our first day, the last panel wrapped up around 10:00 pm and dinner finished just shy of midnight. Our plenary sessions a...

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