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Growthism: its ecological, economic and ethical limits

We have many problems – poverty, unemployment, environmental destruction, climate change, financial instability, etc. – but only one solution for everything, namely economic growth. We believe that growth is the costless, win-win solution to all problems, or at least the necessary precondition for any solution. This is growthism. It now creates more problems than it […]

Filed Under: Economic Growth and Degrowth, Free Trade and Globalization, Livelihoods and jobs Tagged With: corporate control, corporations, degrowth, economic growth, economics, globalization, livelihoods, trade agreements

Saving Japan’s Seed Heritage from “Free Trade”

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This blog is also available in Greek, Russian and Spanish. I recently had the opportunity to interview Masahiko Yamada, formerly Japan´s Minister of Agriculture and now one of the country´s foremost food sovereignty activists. We met at an international Economics of Happiness Conference in Prato, Italy, where Yamada delivered a keynote speech about the birth […]

Filed Under: Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization, Livelihoods and jobs, Resistance and Renewal, Uncategorized Tagged With: agriculture, corporate control, corporations, democracy, farming, free trade, globalization, industrial agriculture, local food, trade agreements

Education, jobs and capitalism

American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation’s schools. On the “hate” side is a stream of complaints from business leaders and organizations about the many students, particularly in city schools, who fail achievement tests, are high school dropouts or, if they complete high school, do not have the academic qualifications for college and […]

Filed Under: Education, Livelihoods and jobs, Technology Tagged With: corporate control, economics, education, jobs, livelihoods, technology

Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance

When orthodox economists first encounter the idea of degrowth, they often jump to the conclusion that the objective is to reduce GDP.  And because they see GDP as equivalent to social wealth, this makes them very upset. Nothing could be further from the truth. I reject the fetishization of GDP as an objective in the […]

Filed Under: Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment, Livelihoods and jobs, Technology Tagged With: climate change, consumerism, degrowth, economic growth, economics, jobs, livelihoods

Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment

This blog is also available in Arabic, Dutch, French, Italian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Turkish. If you’re seeking some good news during these troubled times, look at the ecologically sound ways of producing food that have percolated up from the grassroots in recent years. Small farmers, environmentalists, academic researchers and food and farming activists have […]

Filed Under: Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization, Livelihoods and jobs, Localization, New economy Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, corporations, economics, farming, globalization, industrial agriculture, local food, localization, trade agreements

Why Growth Can’t be Green

Warnings about ecological breakdown have become ubiquitous. Over the past few years, major newspapers, including the Guardian and the New York Times, have carried alarming stories on soil depletion, deforestation, and the collapse of fish stocks and insect populations. These crises are being driven by global economic growth, and its accompanying consumption, which is destroying […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Development, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment, Livelihoods and jobs Tagged With: climate change, degrowth, development, economic growth, economics, new economy, sustainability, well-being

Bulldoze the Business School

Visit the average university campus and it is likely that the newest and most ostentatious building will be occupied by the business school. The business school has the best building because it makes the biggest profits (or, euphemistically, “contribution” or “surplus”) – as you might expect, from a form of knowledge that teaches people how […]

Filed Under: Education, Livelihoods and jobs, Local finance, New economy Tagged With: corporate control, corporations, economics, jobs, new economy, sustainability

Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism

This blog is also available in Chinese, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Turkish.   For those who care about peace, equality and the future of the planet, the global political swing to the right over the past few years is deeply worrying. It has us asking ourselves, how did this happen? How did […]

Filed Under: Community, Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization, Livelihoods and jobs, Local energy, Local finance, Localization Tagged With: corporations, democracy, economics, globalization, homepage, Ladakh, livelihoods, localization, new economy, trade agreements, Trump

CTRLshift: An Emergency Summit for Change

In Britain, these days, all the essential endeavors that are supposed to promote general wellbeing and what is known as “civilization” are, it is widely agreed, in crisis: health and social services; housing; education; energy; transport; and of course, though successive governments haven’t taken it seriously, agriculture. Oh yes, and then there’s “the environment” – […]

Filed Under: Education, Environment, Food and Farming, Health, Livelihoods and jobs, New economy, Resistance and Renewal Tagged With: agriculture, brexit, climate change, community, democracy, economics, farming, localization, new economy, sustainability

Where Time Went (and why we have so little left)

“Sleeker. Faster. More Intuitive” (The New York Times); “Welcome to a world where speed is everything” (Verizon FiOS); “Speed is God, and time is the devil” (chief of Hitachi’s portable-computer division). In “real” time, life speeds up until time itself seems to disappear—fast is never fast enough, everything has to be done now, instantly. To […]

Filed Under: Economic Growth and Degrowth, Health, Inner transformation, Livelihoods and jobs, Technology Tagged With: community, corporations, degrowth, economic growth, economics, happiness, health

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