Fossil fuels, food and a just, sustainable response to COVID-19
Caroline Whyte argues that a just response to COVID-19 will need to take into account the limitations of renewable energy and the resulting need...
Update from the Wellbeing Economy Ireland Hub
Happy New Year! Below is a brief roundup of the Wellbeing Economy Ireland Hub‘s activities over the past few months.
We have a lot planned for 2023,...
Why Don’t Lions Chase Mice: review
"When Watkins calls for a “brown new deal” he is not in any way denying climate science, he is trying to respond to the...
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...
More Context For A Theory Of Change – Part 2
"The student climate strikers are actually asking us to face facts. They are giving us an opening to admit we were wrong and to...
Limits to Economic Growth?
These are notes from a short lecture given at Nottingham University on 28th November 2017. Click on the images to enlarge them.
1 Production Increase
During...
The Climate Crisis and Economic Policy Choices
A major issue in climate economics is whether it is possible to halt the growth in carbon emissions and to achieve, instead, a rapid...
CapGlobalCarbon and basic income: How could climate action be coupled to economic empowerment?
Note: this article assumes that you are already up-to-speed on what CapGlobalCarbon is. See here to get a quick overview, or here for a...
The global economy is too big
This short talk given by Brian Davey at the Nottingham Green Festival on September 15 2019 explains why the future economy will need to...
Mark Garavan speaking at Global Water Dances event, Cork, June 15th
Feasta's Mark Garavan will be speaking in Cork at the launch of the Oxford University Press Community Development Journal's special issue on "Water, Anti-...
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Final notice.
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To: The people of Washington, DC, and particularly to the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
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