If radical systemic change does not cut down on emissions soon, the consequences could be catastrophic.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MorePromises of green growth are magical thinking. We have to restructure the fundamentals of our cultural and economic systems.
Read MoreRegeneration 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreRight now, our current political and economic systems are not on track to prevent climate catastrophe. Can that change?
Read MoreIf 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…
Read MoreRather 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.
Read MoreGDP 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?
Read MoreThe mania for individual satisfaction and the idea that buying and collecting stuff will make us more happy has produced a spectacularly unequal world.
Read MoreWell-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.
Read MoreTo break this paradox, economists say we must measure and manage happiness and well-being.
Read MoreTo solve the crisis, we'd have to slow growth. And no one wants to admit that.
Read MoreDanger 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
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