Environment and Ecology

Best Ideas

1. Why future generations matter
2. If you were a multi-millionaire wanting to help future generations ...
3. The Sacred Cow Syndrome and Gaia principles
4. Ecopsychology
5. Equanimity needed to face accelerating changes
6. A vision of future evolution
7. 12.5m Earth globe with interior computer projections
8. A memorial for extinct species
9. 20 million optimum population for Britain
10. A Flu from Hell to reduce human numbers
11. Mass extinctions threatened by gamma rays
12. The Natural Step's progress
13. Local Agenda 21 as a way to influence councils
14. Getting funds from large firms by 'swing-purchasing'
15. Lifestyles of frugal beauty
16. Balancing the carbon budget
17. Negawatts, feebates and food-miles
18. Beckerman in Wonderland
19. A teenager's world-changing letters
20. Community-Supported Agriculture
21. Forest gardens, network marketing and learning poetry
22. Owners to donate land for community gardens
23. Permaculture as a social invention
24. A community forest garden in Islington
25. Permaculture farm and campsite - progress report
26. Cornish eco-hamlet
27. £30m Earth Centre in Yorkshire
28. Growing hemp for clothes
29. Thyme - a grass lawn alternative
30. A £25 home-made compost toilet
31. Squatters select waste collector
32. No garbage _ no garbage bill
33. Picking up other people's litter on the tube
34. Lottery rewards for good deeds
35. Microwaving waste less polluting than incineration
36. Making town maps showing Green initiatives
37. Re-creating our cities
38. An environmentally concerned hotel
39. Recyclable telephone directories
40. Hawks keep pigeons out of town
41. Pheremone spray for dogs' mess
42. Less stress for chickens in red light
43. The emotional lives of animals
44. Weather changes will increase depression
45. Stickers of earth from space

Social Inventions

1. The best uninhabited island in the world?
2. Eating grasshoppers
3. Signs with farm phone numbers for walkers
4. A Forest Garden inspired by Robert Hart
5. Manchester's first Forest Garden
6. Permacamp - a year-round camp site
7. School For Self Sufficiency
8. Lost pet ads in California predict earthquakes
9. Suspend planning laws during recession
10. Straw houses and other uses for straw
11. Coconut dust as replacement for peat
12. Clay balcony pots for composting
13. Recycling myths
14. Hillman's Musings:
15. Packaging tax needed
16. Inadequate EC Ecolabelling and environmental auditing
17. The Environmental Law Foundation
18. Archie's Eco-Checklist
19. Sustainable Society study group
20. Bamberton new town for 12,000 - controversy
21. Auction the whale
22. Less weeds if plough by night
23. The Earth Chant

Book of Visions

1. The Council for Posterity
2. The Rights of Nature
3. A Declaration of the Rights of Nature
4. The Natural Step - A National Plan for sustainability
5. A Global Strategy for Sustainability
6. A National Trust for the future, run by Third Agers
7. Software for saving the planet
8. Act as if you were going to live to be five billion years old
9. The Laws of Vested Interest
10. A sunshine limit to growth
11. Property rights in air and water
12. From Consumers' to Users' Association
13. New Consumer
14. Shopping for a Better World
15. Postcards to ungreen companies
16. The Valdez Principles, a Green code of conduct for companies
17. Wanted: Enemies of the Earth and Greenwar International
18. Ecology Begins At Home
19. How Green are YOU?
20. Avoiding Armageddon by redirecting space debris
21. Meteor stream key to earth's climate
22. Satellite-verified incentives to help save the rainforests
23. The Forest Peoples' Fund
24. Show Brazilians value of forest
25. A Botanical Peace Corps
26. School seeds study for Kew database
27. Buy an acre of tropical forest
28. The erosion of civilisations
29. Saving the planet with gravel dust
30. The planet fertile for 10,000 years every 100,000 years?
31. 52 million trees = 1 factory
32. Free trees from Tree Bank
33. Mulching better than fertiliser for tree planting
34. Trees and hippopotami
35. An Agroforestry vision
36. The Forest Garden
37. Non- poisonous slug control
38. Garlic-absorbing trees for protection from rabbits
39. Giving gardens to the needy
40. Six pounds a week to save woodland
41. Rights for Swedish animals
42. Getting free range chickens to go outside
43. A new order of knighthood, the Knights of Gaia
44. Parishes competing to be ecological guinea pigs
45. Ecological Village Association
46. Tuggelite, a Swedish eco- village
47. Welsh solar village
48. The Green town of Davis
49. A Green town for 12,000
50. Against a free market in agriculture
51. State support for Organic Agriculture (outside UK)
52. A charter for agriculture
53. The Land Heritage Trust
54. Vetiver grass - a new Green Revolution?
55. Phosphates will mean the end of cities
56. Otters to test river purity
57. Solving the slurry problem
58. Need for a dual sewage system
59. Sewage marshes as nature sanctuaries
60. Converting human sewage into quality fertiliser
61. The Eco Lavatory
62. Sweet-smelling food for pigs
63. Hawthorn hedges on estates
64. Quiet Zones
65. Deposits on newspapers
66. Cow to eat 4.5kg of newsprint daily
67. Hemp - 'a plant to save the world'?
68. All containers recycled by law
69. Recycling with worms
70. Curitiba - reycling as a popular and heroic activity
71. Extra waste bins for recyclables for Sheffield households
72. Mandatory deposits on containers
73. Incentives to reduce rubbish
74. Underground street litter containers
75. Sponsored recyclers
76. Deposit on car batteries
77. Energy used to clean old bottles 15 time more than for new
78. Recycled paper means less trees
79. Imaginative environmental events
80. Global ecological alliance
81. Environmental Legislation Ideas Bank
82. Save the World Club
83. A Calendar with 28 day months
84. Changing the clocks for more daylight

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