By David Klein, System Change not Climate Change
Before describing possible features of a future ecosocialism, it is worthwhile to consider why such a system is even needed. Why can’t the problems that ecosocialism would solve also be remedied within the current global capitalist system?
By This Bear, This Bear blog
I was recently asked why I oppose Capitalism so loudly and consistently even though I am in a position of relative privilege at this point in my life. These are a few of the bullet points.
By Juan Bordera Romá, Fastlove Studios
We have to assume that we have reached the century of limits, and the current model is no good for us. We have to plan and try to redistribute while reducing our impact.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Ecological economist Tim Jackson is one of the few serious scholars trying to imagine what a post-growth world might look like.
By Kamran Nayeri, Our Place in the World
Degrowth shines a light on the problem of growth on a planet with finite resources. It also envisions a smaller human society living on a shrinking economic pie...
By Juan Bordera Romá, Fastlove Studios
The Black Elephant In The Room, in this case, is that nothing grows forever. Unlike what our system – the Elephant in The Room – pretends to do, which is designed to do so and doesn’t know how to slow down.
By Richard Heinberg, Judy Wicks, Michael Shuman, Resilience.org
How do we build strong local living economies for a post-carbon world? Tune into a stimulating conversation about how to move forward.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
“Empowering and elegiac” might seem a strange description of a book on economics. Yet the prominent author and former economics minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, chooses that phrase of praise for the new book Post Growth, by Tim Jackson.
By Winona LaDuke, Esperanza Project
Our crop of choice, hemp, stands to be a leading material in a transformation from fossil fuel dependence to renewable energy stability.
By Doug Banks, Uneven Earth
Maybe we should rethink our metrics, measurements, and very meanings of progress, and start reorganising our economies in ways that celebrate human and non-human nature, rather than constrict it.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Since publishing Doughnut Economics in 2017, renegade British economist Kate Raworth has become a phenomenon that mainstream economics largely declines to acknowledge but increasingly cannot ignore.
By Della Duncan, Shareable
You do not need to be an economist to change the goal of your economy to well-being for people and the planet. Here’s how you can bring Doughnut economics to your community.