There’s no Feasta in the USA, but there is this new blog
When I was a student learning about the problems of the world, I wondered if there was a group whose job was to think...
More thoughts on the good life
Here’s a powerful thought – the largest consumption of energy in the UK is personal consumption and the largest share of that is by...
The real lesson of the Energiewende is that the German economy uses too much...
Implications of a study by Hans Werner Sinn, ifo Institute Munich
For a long time Germany’s attempt to grapple with atomic power, climate change and...
The good life or the ballot? Both you say? I say the good life...
We have reached a pivotal moment. I think we can be certain that governments and other powers, such as corporations and their promotional arms,...
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 –...
How destructive is the middle class?
Firstly, I’ve no wish to define people by accidents of birth and then condemn them for the effects of those accidents – by accent,...
Permaculture Guide to Reed Beds by Féidhlim Harty: Review
For his latest publication, Féidhlim Harty once again marries a wealth of scientific and regulatory knowledge with his depth of practical experience. However, in...
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...
Why I put time and energy into advocating universal basic income
Like most Feasta members, I am acutely aware of the many interlinked things that need to happen in order to create a sane, humane...
The Corruption of Capitalism by Guy Standing: review by Brian Davey
Guy Standing’s The Corruption of Capitalism (Biteback Publishing 2017) is a powerful attack on rentier capitalism and, very explicitly, a call to revolt. It...
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