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May 10, 2013
by Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
The other day I read an excellent piece by Calvin Jones, Professor of Economics at Cardiff Business School (see right) called Technology Cannot Tackle Climate Change. Having argued that, due to a range of issues, economic growth is no longer possible, he writes: “Faced with these issues …
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May 2, 2013
by Brian Davey, Feasta
The difficulty for any person who goes to another country to talk about economic and political policy is that they are almost inevitably going to be, to some degree, out of touch and out of tune with on the spot realities.
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May 2, 2013
by Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•The death of innovation, the end of growth •Argument: Is it time to ditch the pursuit of economic growth? •The End of Growth? •Global Wealth Inequality - What you never knew you never knew •There's no need for all this economic sadomasochism
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May 1, 2013
by Robert Jensen, Alternet
It’s not clear whether Stan Cox is a plant breeder with a penchant for politics, or a political provocateur who finds time to do science. Whichever aspect of his personality is dominant, Cox artfully draws on both skill sets to make the case for rationing, perhaps the most important …
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May 1, 2013
by Jules Peck, Flourishing Enterprise
Evidence shows its very clear we have reached the safe limits to growth in terms of the most pressing threat to human civilisation – that of a stable atmosphere. Therefore, until we can find a way to decouple growth from carbon emissions and reach that mythical …
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Apr 26, 2013
by Flipa Pimentel, Reconomy project
This is a guest post from Filipa Pimentel, the Transition Network national hubs co-ordinator and she’s from Portugal. This is based on an email that she recently sent, and which I found moving and inspiring -- so Filipa kindly agreed to share it with you
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Apr 22, 2013
by Mary Logan, A prosperous way down
What is the relationship between social justice and resource sustainability? Many authors have tackled this subject from many directions, including Illich (1973), and O’Riordan (1976). In the developed world, freedom includes emancipation from nature, where freedom does not occur until we …
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Apr 19, 2013
by Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•Sacred Economics: Chapter 17, Summary and Roadmap (Pt.18)
•A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse
•The End of Growth, Part 1
•The Limits of the Earth, Part 1: Problems
•Are social enterprises the future for libraries?
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Apr 15, 2013
by Roger Baker, The Rag Blog
In the first part of this series about "terminal capitalism," we saw a collection of evidence that the global system of capitalism, the organized basis for most world trade, is in deep trouble. The situation has become so serious and the problems so self-evident that the polls show …
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Apr 1, 2013
by Roger Baker, The Rag Blog
But the doubts about the viability of capitalism as a system now extend far beyond its traditional critics. The U.S. economy has been in bad shape since about 2007 and the signs of recovery have not improved much since then. To give one example, Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute …
