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Like all efforts to make large systemic changes, a revolution in economics education will be messy and slow, but have the potential to transform public life.

How do you talk to someone who doesn't believe in climate change? Not by rehashing the same data and facts we've been discussing for years, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. 

Rightwing nationalism threatens the global solidarity needed to avoid a climate catastrophe

Trillions of dollars of investments are being taken out of carbon-intensive companies. Governments must now take notice.

In response to the intersecting challenges of the Anthropocene, scholars who take a broader and more critical view of current economic models have described the shortcomings of orthodox economic theory along with the severe consequences of its systemic discounting of the environment.

This is how the Italian city of Bologna is getting people to leave their cars behind.

130 models from across the world show that we can stop catastrophic climate change with technology that exists today

There is no evidence that growing incomes or carbon footprint improve either wellbeing indicator over time. 

Herders in one of the most biodiverse places on earth are reviving ancient traditions to cope with climate change.

In the wake of the stark U.N. report, direct-action groups like Sunrise Movement and Extinction Rebellion are out to disrupt the fossil fuel economy.

With sea levels rising in Miami, “climate gentrification” is driving up prices in high-ground areas, pushing people out of working-class neighborhoods.

A Post-Growth economy is not only necessary for planetary survival, but will make our lives way better, too. These films explain why.

For two hundred years, capitalism has depended on extraction from nature and human bodies. It has always needed an “outside,” external to itself, from which it can plunder some kind of original value, for free, without an equivalent return. That’s what fuels growth. So what happens when capital is no longer allowed to plunder nature? Where will it turn to next, in its hunger for growth? What new forms of exploitation will it devise? 

A contribution to the socio-ecological reorientation of Europe.

This video contains a debate on the dilemma of growth, the relevance of GDP growth for wellbeing, and the political feasibility of a postgrowth agenda.

We need a “new common consciousness of what’s necessary and possible to curb climate change.”

What we measure affects what we do. If we focus only on material wellbeing – on, say, the production of goods, rather than on health, education, and the environment – we become distorted in the same way that these measures are distorted; we become more materialistic.

Big cuts in carbon emissions and a rise in protection from extreme weather urgently needed

System Reset is a feature-length documentary which explores this story of change in our economy.

Talking about the death of our living planet as an environmental externality is a huge alarm bell that economic theory is not equipped for the 21st century.