The future of renewable energy
I’ve been reflecting on the idea that the current energy system is starting to be swept along by a technological revolution somewhat akin to...
Ethical disconnection and re-connection – corporations as “people” and NGOs
Externalities involve ethical choices. The mechanisms that allow corporate actors to distance themselves from responsibility from their anti-social and anti-environmental choices are described –...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the IPCC 1.5 Degree Report and...
"We should celebrate the positives from those news stories in raising general awareness. But for those who recognize the bad and ugly parts...
In search of the good ordinary wine and the good ordinary household
What spoils economies?
Firstly, their size – do they exceed the limits of their ecological supply. That is – is the mass and diversity of...
Well-being in Wales
The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 defines Sustainable Development in Wales as: “The process of improving the economic, social, environmental and cultural well-being...
Stop Climate Chaos event: Dinner with Darwin, July 22
Stop Climate Chaos, of which Feasta is a member, is organising an event on July 22:
“Happenings in partnership with Dublin City Council and Stop...
Brexit and complexity
Complexity is probably the chief problem of Brexit…
There’s a line in the song “Hotel California” by the Eagles that reminds me of the Brexit...
Greta Thunberg, PR and the “Climate Emergency”
Brian Davey argues that Greta Thunberg's campaign is being manipulated by big businesses and large environmental NGOs to engineer a massive policy coup for...
2022 round-up, and appeal: please help Feasta to shift the economic narrative further in...
The turbulence of the past year has made it clearer than ever that our growth-fixated, resource-squandering, and savagely unjust economy is neither viable nor desirable....
Land planning policy at the limits to growth
Should there be a presumption against new development?
asks Brian Davey
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