By Nate Hagens, William E. Rees, The Great Simplification
On this episode, Nate is joined by systems ecologist William E. Rees. Professor Rees outlines why most of the challenges facing humanity and the biosphere have a common origin - ecological overshoot.
By Nate Hagens, Jon Erickson, The Great Simplification
How can we reshape the narrative and shift the paradigm towards different economic systems that promote human and ecological well-being over material consumption?
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
What this book forces us to ask is that, if ‘contemporary issues’ were accurately described and diagnosed fifty years ago, why has no progress been made since then?
By Nate Hagens, Joshua Farley, The Great Simplification
Money. What is it? Where does it come from? How is it created? How is it tethered to our biophysical balance sheet? What is on the horizon with our monetary system? How might we create and use money differently in the future during a source and sink contained system?
By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium
Ecological Economics is the informed management of resources and socio-environmental interactions to satisfy objective needs and subjective desires in a process that does not destroy the basis of their provision.
By Jack Santa Barbara, Foreign Policy In Focus
A new book explains how an economist, in challenging the orthodoxy, has helped activists change the world.
By Brannon Andersen, Gaianism
Alternatives to capitalism exist and are growing. The question is how to begin developing the next system as quickly as possible to avoid socioecological collapse.
By Paul Robert Gilbert, Uneven Earth
Discounting models that posit representative world consumers, or even ‘globally impartial decision makers’ attentive to global inequalities, remain wedded to neoclassical understandings of economics that reduces human life to a matter of individual consumption choices, and reduces the nonhuman world to substitutable ‘natural capital’.
By Frederic Jennings, Resilience.org
One of the greatest and most overwhelming conceptual breakthroughs of my life was the realization that everything in our universe is connected and interacting in networks of interdependent cause and effect through time.
By David Haenke, Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
Ecology and economics come from the same root word. Hopefully before it’s too late, humanity will see that good economics must be also good ecology: ECO-ECONOMICS. This is the “unified field theory” and practice for economics.
By Frederic Jennings, Resilience
This is the main notion, and the importance, of resilience. The whole life process is one of ongoing disequilibrium movement to which we must adapt to survive.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
It only took us a century to use up the best of the planet’s finite reserves of fossil fuels. The dawning century will be a lot different.