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David Allan's Blog – May 2011 Archive (3)

The Stockholm Memorandum

The Stockholm Memorandum



Tipping the Scales towards Sustainability



3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium* on Global Sustainability, Stockholm, Sweden, 16-19 May 2011



*The Nobel Laureate Symposium Series on Global Sustainability was initiated in 2007 at Potsdam and continued by the St James’s Palace Symposium in spring 2009. This Symposium series unites Nobel Laureates of various disciplines, top-level representatives from politics and NGOs, and renowned experts on… Continue

Added by David Allan on May 25, 2011 at 12:21am — No Comments

The Four Dynamics of Building the Transition movement

http://transitioninaction.com/profiles/blogs/the-four-dynamics-of-building



The Context: Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent over many decades by marketing consultants and nonprofit fund raising consultants, university development and endowment departments and charitable trade associations to glean the four indisputable truths of reaching the customer, the donor or the joiner of a… Continue

Added by David Allan on May 9, 2011 at 9:24am — No Comments

Quote of the Day

(re. election results)

 

"Its like winning the bingo on the Titanic."

 

via thetyee.ca

Added by David Allan on May 4, 2011 at 5:25pm — No Comments

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