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The most up-to-date energy codes can reduce a building’s energy consumption up to 70 percent compared with a similar base-case building.

The circular economy is transformational, not just transactional; disruptive, not incremental.

“To me, what's most inspiring about what we do is that we're just connecting with our community in a much deeper way"…”

Despite increasing economic growth, happiness is falling across many nations…

GDP per capita is a narrow, inadequate metric for capturing the true, full value of health investments…

Carpeted in forest, Bhutan absorbs more CO2 than it emits…

Our leaders privilege GDP over the environment because the economy must expand year after year – or else the world tips into crisis

If radical systemic change does not cut down on emissions soon, the consequences could be catastrophic.

In the face of climate breakdown and ecological overshoot, alluring promises of "green growth" are no more than magical thinking. We need to restructure the fundamentals of our global cultural/economic system to cultivate an "ecological civilization": one that prioritizes the health of living systems over short-term wealth production.

Promises of green growth are magical thinking. We have to restructure the fundamentals of our cultural and economic systems.

Regeneration is a design principle that works to ensure that all inputs and outputs, upstream and downstream, people and planet, conduce to the health of the whole system.

The Europe-wide INCOVER project, which was among the winners at the Water Industry Awards 2018, shows how technology and collaboration can point the way to the circular economy.

Right now, our current political and economic systems are not on track to prevent climate catastrophe. Can that change?

If ever there was a controversial icon from the statistics world, GDP is it. It measures income, but not equality, it measures growth, but not destruction, and it ignores values like social cohesion and the environment. Yet, governments, businesses and probably most people swear by it…

Rather than attempting to solve every problem by growing the economy, we need to focus instead on meeting real human and ecological needs. This is what we mean by the economics of happiness.

GDP numbers for the U.S. are currently high, while unemployment numbers are very low. Things must be good, right? If that is the case, why is the country experiencing such a high suicide rate? And why is life expectancy falling?

The mania for individual satisfaction and the idea that buying and collecting stuff will make us more happy has produced a spectacularly unequal world.

Well-being metrics, derived from large-scale surveys and questionnaires that capture the income and nonincome determinants of individual well-being, often provide a different picture of what is happening to people. These metrics can provide insight into policies to sustain human welfare in the future.

To break this paradox, economists say we must measure and manage happiness and well-being.

To solve the crisis, we'd have to slow growth. And no one wants to admit that.