The growing realisation
Tim Jackson has just published a new book, Post Growth – Life After Capitalism, examining our disastrous obsession with growth in a finite world and how we might escape it. …
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Galicia opens the way to a circular economy
Today, the Galician Regional Government informed the public about a new call for proposals directed at small and medium enterprises (SME’s) who want to turn their production processes into a …
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Jared Diamond – Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
A “riveting and illuminating” (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don’t, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, …
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Global Commission Calls for a Food Revolution to Solve World’s Climate & Nutrition Problems
An ambitious report on the global food system from a commission convened by the prestigious medical journal The Lancet calls for a radical change in food production—or, as one of …
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Time to lace up
Heliotropy: “We will grow taller, stronger and faster when motivated by things that are light and full of positivity.” The climate change statistics look grim. Charmian Love and Gillian Benjamin …
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Economic Growth: Our modern day religion?
For around half a century ecological economists such as Herman Daly have been seeking to win over the economics profession to the recognition that the economy is a subsystem of …
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Innovation, Sustainability and Trust
Creating a human society which is sustainable must rate as the biggest innovation challenge humanity has ever faced. We often think of this challenge as one of technological innovation, but …
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Whatever works for you?
Earning a crust or getting a rise: there’s more to work than making bread. Why do you do what you don’t want to do? Angela Dennis thinks we should take …
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Work: a situation vacant
Job’s worth: being cost effective in producing and consuming ever more things. We need a new defining idea for political economy, writes Richard Douglas. During Cheltenham Gold Cup week I …
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Putting Stakeholders at the Centre
If the talk of a move from a shareholder economy to a stakeholder economy is to be more than just lip service, businesses need to engage meaningfully with a range …
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