Shaping a Post-Growth Economy
A post-growth system essentially says: Not only are we facing ecological limits, but the very systems that have been driving us into ecological overshoot are also unsustainable from a social perspective.
postgrowth economics
A ‘Real’ Green New Deal? Policies for a Post-Growth Economy (Part III of Ecological Civilisation)
What would a ‘real’ Green New Deal involve? In this presentation Samuel Alexander argues that it would require policies to create a post-growth economy.
Prosperous Transitions and Global Warnings: Lebanon’s Economic Collapse
Lebanon’s recession shows outlines that could heal the metabolic rift between economy and ecology. It calls for new ways of living, manufacturing, growing food, transportation, and every other aspect of our existence. This is the prosperous way forward.
“How Did This Class Prepare You for Extinction?”
I believe that higher education would better serve students in particular and all humans in general if our teaching and research methods stop perpetuating the cultural paradigm that brought us to the brink of extinction and start encouraging students to imagine and create alternatives to it.
Slack Employment
It is a truth universally acknowledged that competitiveness is a good thing.
Earthcare Warrior Women
“This is a female moment in time,” observes Rev Dele, founder of the Virginia-based, Soil Souls. “The Earth and society are about to give birth to a new culture. It’s women who give birth to that which is yet unseen.”
Earth Overshoot Day and Not-For-Profit Enterprise
In 2015, 13 August is Earth Overshoot Day. The day marks the estimated calendar date when humanity’s demand on the planet’s ecological services (which produce renewable resources and assimilate wastes) outstrips what the Earth can supply