Monthly Archives: October 2009

Zero Interest with Zero Emissions

A slidecast of this presentation is available at http://www.slideshare.net/cscoxk/zero-interest-loans-for-energy-sustainability

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This talk was first presented at the green new deal event put on by the green institute http://greeninstitute.org.au/gnd

It came after an talk by Tim Jackson who presented his book Prosperity without growth. 

In the talk I discuss one mechanism to implement Prosperity Without  Growth. 

The key to sustainability [...]

Patent Protection of Genes Unnecessary

In a recent LateLine discussion Jim Greenwood, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organisation put out a challenge to Australians to come up with a better way of financing research and development in gene research than the approach using patents. The following is a better way.
Patents are used to increase the cost of the [...]