Basic Income and health in Ireland
This paper by Dr Elizabeth Cullen draws on research to explore how basic income could improve the health and well-being of all Irish people,...
Thomas Paine’s 1797 call for a Basic Income: a new paper tells the full...
"With the Covid-19 crisis, calls for a basic income are gaining new momentum. The U.S., and other countries too, could enjoy the immense society-wide...
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...
Here’s why I’m so at odds with most of my ‘green’ friends
"Claims by many permaculturalists, organic farmers, and grassland polemicists that they can “draw down carbon forever” are wrong. They can do so only to...
Podcast: Basic Income and the global pandemic struggle
Seán Ó'Conlaín and Caroline Whyte interview Dr Evelyn Forget, who describes the social and health effects of a basic income trial carried out in...
Resilience and Collective Psychology – fast collapse or slow disintegration
In a prescient article from his 2014 book Credo, Brian Davey explores the possibility of a “cross contagion” of cascading collapse between some combination...
Mental Health, Isolation and Lockdowns
Brian Davey reflects from his past experience about the impact that self isolation is likely to have on the mental health of many people.
Press release: Radical reset of economy needed to offset effects of COVID-19
“Within the crisis there is an opportunity to move to more resilient, fairer and equitable economic and community systems. The hope is once there...
Coronavirus, degrowth and self isolation
"What this crisis is trying to teach us are frightening truths about the ecological consequences of land use changes that have emerged as threats...
Coping
"In this time of ecological and social crises, it is essential to be the best human beings we can be, to carve out conviviality...
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