Danger and destruction of global warming must trigger real modification of behaviour
Read MoreBack in 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that growth would end within a century — but he was unclear whether a post-growth capitalism was really possible.
Read MoreTogether, five companies have a climate footprint bigger than Exxon, Shell or BP, but we don’t talk about it.
Read MoreA global movement for transforming current economic models to one based on wellbeing is gathering support
Read More238 academics call on the European Union and its member states to plan for a post-growth future in which human and ecological wellbeing is prioritised over GDP
Read MoreDenmark, Norway, France and the U.K. have a date to ban gas and diesel cars. In the U.S., the plan is to gut car emission legislation.
Read MoreThe Labour leader took an apparent swipe at Gordon Brown who was at the centre of bank bailout efforts
Read MoreInventor and designer Philipe Starck has something to say about the future of the world’s economies…
Read MoreGDP doesn’t measure human happiness
Read MoreA landmark report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says that avoiding the damage requires transforming the world economy at a speed and scale that has “no documented historic precedent.”
Read MoreWilliam D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer were announced as the winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in economics at a news conference in Stockholm…
Read MoreMove over GDP: happiness is angling to become the metric of the future.
Read More“With this administration, it’s almost as if this science is happening in another galaxy.”
Read MoreWe stand face to face with a classic crisis of overproduction
Read MoreShrink-wrapped cans of beer, anyone?
Read MoreThe single-minded focus by governments on GDP fails to capture growing evidence of the fraying of social compacts and cohesion, as well as growing social unrest…
Read MoreGDP “is like a speedometer […] useful, but doesn’t tell you everything you want to know.…”
Read MoreMotivated by his embrace of the Genuine Progress Indicator, an ecological-economic metric, Pentel continues to work on building public support for public banks…
Read MoreNew data proves you can support capitalism or the environment—but it’s hard to do both.
Read MoreIncreased share of agriculture to GDP, for instance, does not necessarily mean that farmers will have a better tomorrow
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