Why Economics Needs to Make Space for Nature
Aniol Esteban is head of Environmental Economics at the New Economics Foundation. I started by asking what, for him, is the link between nature and wellbeing?
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The end of the end of nature
It seems obvious: to be fully alive you have to interact directly, respectfully and in physical proximity with a variety of other fully living things as much as possible. There is no substitute.
A Walk in the Future
If human history is a novel, then we’ve reached the climax, the final turning point in which the protagonists (us) either change or die.
Rube Goldberg Nature
The more I learn about it, the more Nature looks like a Rube Goldberg machine: energy and materials flow through convoluted paths to accomplish something seemingly simple.
Toward a Finite-Planet Journalism
The transformation of our perpetual-growth society into a steady-state society…would be less painful if it were eased by environmental journalism worthy of the name
Corporate Sustainability and The Commons
A few weeks ago I had an extensive dialogue with a “corporate sustainability architect” who works with corporations and others to design “systemic transformation and company-level solutions.”
Terms of Surrender
After centuries of overconfident pronouncements about "Man’s conquest of Nature," it’s past time to start grappling with an unwelcome reality: what do we do when Nature wins?
Lawns Of Purple and Gold
We burn 800 million gallons of gas mowing lawns, and statisticians say that we spill 17 million gallons every year just refilling our lawn machines. If so, that beats the Exxon Valdez spill of 10 million gallons.
The conquest of nature: And what we’ve lost
Rumors and reports of human relations with animals are the world’s oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of humankind’s intimate acquaintance until somewhere toward the end of the nineteenth century, animals appeared as both agents of nature and symbols of culture.
