Think Globally Radio nominated for "Local Radio Program of the Year" (Årets Närradio)

We are proud to announce that Think Globally Radio has been nominated by the Swedish Radio Academy as Årets Närradio (Local Radio Program of the Year) for 2008. The winner will be chosen from among three nominees on September 24th at the annual Radio Gala.

Disassembling local political power

This week, in the local paper of my south Stockholm suburb dull news came infront of me. Stockholms local municipal district offices are, by the centralized politicians, in favour to become even more disassembled. No particular cause is mentioned, but everyone can realize that it is the resources that just doesnt seem to be enough. So, instead of disassembling them this year, due to total objection by all municipal district offices, they get a dispensation and will probably disassembled next year.

Why should we bother? It is obvious! No local political influence will not deliver the most appropriate decisions for the local community. Then, suddenly you might have a road on your back yard, an enourmos shopping mall in your neighborhood or a giant freeway in the nearest green area. Why can´t we try to hold on to these positive institutions? Why can´t we realize that by making everything more individual we are losing the picture of the bigger whole? By focusing on money, in whatever level of society, primarily will NOT bring us happiness, this is nowdays scientifically proved.

The world we create is simply a result based on the decisions we prioritate. It´s now, both locally, regionally and globally critical to make these decisions integrated with those existing in our hearts and souls.

In search of the common sense

Listen to KG Hammars simple and beautiful message concerning the relation to ourselves as a precondition to the relation between ourselves and nature. From Tellbärg Forum 2008:

http://www.compodium.se/tallberg08/day2/006/

Fashion of climate change..?

Focusing on necessary questions, 3

CSR, social strategies, eco-agendas, sustainbale indexes and sustainable reporting concerning and designed by corporations are fresh concepts that, at best, communicates to consumers that corporations at choise are taking their social and ecological responsibility.

Permeating, or overlooking this trend, the issue transforms into an egoistic or altruistic agenda operated by corporations. As long as CSR strategies are used for a competitive advantage for ever increasing economic growth, issues like total ecosystem footprints (how much goods are produced and how much raw material and energy is used during a year totally in one region/country etc.) and social issues (what are the consequences for social/health implications of the human beings belonging to a more and more commercialized world where competition and economic profitability always comes in first hand / what about social relationships between parents and children when lifes of modern humans are increasingly compartmentilzed due to professional carreers and constant representation of corporate values?)

Should companies/corporatioins really gain total mandate of political power and adress issues that are directly concerning the general public of communities as long as they behave, metaphorically speaking, within the mental framework of a juridical patient diagnosed as a psychopath? The question is important to reflect upon.

Is not the central issue, whether or not we should use our energies as individuals to create a world that is a little more altruistic? What about taking into consideration the publics best, for instance through sound, transparant and sustainable political institutions functioning primarily for the sake of the publics best and through increasing corporate insightful actions of less competition and agendas of economic sufficiency for the sake of the public and our ecosystems?

Balancing egoism with altruism...

Focusing on necessary questions, 2

NCC Roads Norway, supplying products and services that are used in and around roads, newly notified that they one of their green strategies involve replacing fossil fuels with fish oil when producing virgine asphalt. NCC Roads states that the fish oil used is derived from food processing industries as a by-product.

Its so vital to consider the holisitic approach here. Although this action by NCC Roads seems to be green - considering that the European fish stocks already are depleted by 88% and we are depended by third world fish stocks, its not difficult to understand that it is highly controversial.

Not to mention that this most surely will lead to capturing fish solely for the sake of the fish oil in order to saturate a large-scale investment.

Time for large enterprises to put "green" solutions into a broader context including other parts of the society, such as recent and alerting research?

Forza Italia!

No, its not South America, Southeast Asia or Africa - the picture is taken in Italy. An industrial country, part of the G8.

The situation is not much better in Greece, Spain, the balkans and the eastern european countries.

Effective recycling management dramatically reduces the usage of raw materials and energy which directly facilitiates the Kyoto protocol targets and the European Unions immidate target of reducing CO2 emissions by 20% year 2020.

Forza Italia
Forza Europa!