Saturday, April 14, 2007

Brundtland and sustainability: history’s balance-sheet John Elkington - openDemocracy

John Elkington's comprehensive review of the last 20+ years of sustainability...and some ideas of the way forward from here.

"To ensure we make the political, social, economic and technological shifts that sustainability requires, politicians and governments can no longer sit back and leave things to voluntary initiatives by business...political toes will need to be held to the fire for some time before truly transformative actions are attempted".