Waterpraxis Final Seminar

The final seminar of WATERPRAXIS will take place in Vilnius (Lithuania) on 11-12 January 2012. The event focuses on dissemination of experiences and results gathered in the 7 Baltic Sea partner countries of the project. At the same time, the seminar also offers an interesting opportunity for water planners, decision-makers and researchers to discuss current topics and exchange information in water management in the whole Baltic Sea Region.

The seminar lasts 1,5 days and is free of charge.

For more information please the Waterpraxis web site.

Earnings, jobs and innovation: the role of recycling in a green economy

Earnings, jobs and innovation: the role of recycling in a green economy
EEA Report No. 8/2011

Recycling has multiple benefits for many areas of the economy – providing raw materials, creating jobs and encouraging business opportunities and innovation. These economic benefits of recycling are examined in a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). The report considers the recycling industry in the context of building a 'green economy', a major European policy objective. Recycling industry can boost the European economy

The report shows that recycling has numerous environmental benefits including diverting waste away from landfill, thereby avoiding pollutant emissions. It also helps meet the material demands of economic production, preventing the environmental impacts associated with extracting and refining virgin materials.

The Economics of Enough

The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
by Diane Coyle

In this book economist Diane Coyle gives us a thoughtful, thorough, and somber account of the West’s, and the world’s, ecological and economic problems. Coyle correctly observes that these cannot be divorced from political and social problems; it is not enough to diagnose difficulties and then offer remedies that are politically unachievable. Instead, Coyle offers useful suggestions that might be implemented—if not by current governments then at least by imaginable governments. In doing all this, Coyle has done us a real service. And yet there is an important piece missing from Coyle’s analysis, without which it is hard to envision a way out of our current predicaments.

For more information on the book please see the Solution Journal web site.

BUP Newsletter no. 28

In the latest BUP Newsletter no. 28 you may read about:
+ BUP in the Future
+ The BUP Rectors' Conference 2011
+ How the Baltic University Programme Began.
+ The Updating of the Sustainable Baltic Region Course.

For older issues and on how to subscribe (or un-subscribe) see the BUP secretariat web page on the newsletter.