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Sustainability
What's Changing? - Optimism
Halcyon Impacts
30 June 2019
Please see below selected recent optimism-related change.
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June 2019
What's Changing? - Sustainability
Please see below recent sustainable development-related change. (Each headline relates to one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs.)
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What's Changing? - Food
Please see below selected recent food-related change.
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June 2019
- Research by academics at the University of Oxford, published in 2016, found that if everyone became vegetarian, food-related emissions would drop by 63 per cent by 2050. And if they went vegan, the drop would be nearer 70 per cent.
May 2019
Halcyon Sustainability Headlines
Halcyon Impacts
31 May 2019
Halcyon curates the most significant sustainability-related content from carefully selected sources. Please contact us if you'd like our help with any sustainability challenges that you might be facing.
What's Changing? - Sufficiency
Please see below selected recent sufficiency-related change.
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May 2019
- Contemporary internet shopping conjures a perfect storm of choice anxiety. Research has consistently held that people who are presented with a few options make better, easier decisions than those presented with many. It has also shown that having many options is particularly confounding when the information available on them is limited or confusing.
March 2019
What's Changing? - Water
Please see below recent water-related change, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal goal six (SDG 6) of ensuring clean water and sanitation by 2030.
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March 2019
What's Changing? - Design
Please see below selected recent design-related change.
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December 2018
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November 2018
On Henry David Thoreau
Halcyon In Kal…
5 October 2018
In the 1840s Henry David Thoreau swapped his busy schedule in Concord, Massachusetts, for a wooden hut he built himself near Walden Pond. We had the privilege to visit Walden in July 2012; it exceeded expectations in its tranquility and beauty - and the swim in the pond itself was unforgettable.
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On the Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were eight time-bound goals providing concrete, numerical benchmarks for tackling extreme poverty in its many dimensions.
The MDGs included goals and targets on income poverty, hunger, maternal and child mortality, disease, inadequate shelter, gender inequality, environmental degradation and the Global Partnership for Development.
Adopted by world leaders in the year 2000 with the attention of being achieved by 2015, the MDGs were both global and local, tailored by each country to suit specific development needs.
The eight MDGs below in turn broke down into 21 quantifiable targets that were measured by 60 indicators.