g6b Peoples Summit

The Conversation

The conversation at the bar went something like this: there were three of us, me, my good friend and a guy I didn’t know (who knew my friend). The subject moved onto world policy: whether the credit-crunch had ever really existed, or whether the machinations of it were something that became real through the mutterings in bank queues, the talking that encircled the world in a daze of negative energy.

Then the guy I didn’t know said, “We don’t need More

Haiti: Hope from out of the Hell

It is exactly one month since the devastating earthquake struck Haiti. There are no more survivors to be dug out but a huge relief effort remains in full force. Disasters such as the one in Haiti are a tragedy that makes the whole world weep but out of the destruction can rise new hope, a new humanity, just as the buildings of Port au Prince will one day soon rise again.

The world was becoming an increasingly insular place. With More

One Love

The world is coming to an age where we cannot necessarily trust the politicians to make the right decisions for the greater population and we believe here are g6b Peoples Summit that it is time for the common people to take some action.

A fine example of this would be the shady underhand dealings by a group of countries made at the last g8 summit in order to deny a bill that would support energy conservation. A few short sighted people denied something that was fundamentally beneficial to all because it was not fiscally profitable to them!

This is the reason why we need to take charge. One of the ways in which we can do this is by supporting our industries that we have control over and our own lives. In Britain we use so much electricity that they reckon if everyone in the world were to follow suit it would take 3.8 planets to support our daily allotment. This is something that we CAN change, even if there is no enforcement in place. There is an amazing company that I have discovered called Enigin, who develop new technology and products to assist large corporations the world over in reducing their energy expenditure. If you hit the link you can read the developers blog, and look at all the new ideas they currently have in the pipeline!

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