“Architecture 2030” plan to revive economy

Message to Washington: You’re not getting it – we’re still out of work. WInd farms and energy efficient public buildings are important, but what about the housing industry? The recession started with the housing industry — and can end if we bring back construction — so lets focus on the real problem. That’s the heart of the message to Congress and the Obama administration from a group of architects and builders who are promoting a plan to end the recession by revitalizing America’s

Maintaining Our Prosperity

Australia’s new Energy White Paper will be crucial in dealing prudently and effectively with the immense challenges facing Australia as the era of cheap energy and the economic system based upon it comes to an end. We are now in the early stages of an unprecedented economic failure – the terminal decline and probable collapse of global Capitalism.

Doctor, please don’t turn your head away!

Those who resist participating in the “growth versus limits” discourse — which may, without exaggeration, be called the problematic of the century — because it is outside their comfort zone or because it appears to be an academically unadaptive career strategy and those who claim that the possibility of economic growth is unbounded should pay particular attention.