Climate Crisis
Circle Economy: The Circularity Gap Report 2020
The global economy is consuming 100 billion tonnes of materials a year for the first time ever, but the cycling rate of resources has gone into reverse. Read here
Solutions
Economics
Bill Mitchell – Work not UBI – the hopeful not the surrender
Mitchell looks at a report by the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy concerning the challenges of achieving “good work”. Read here
Climate Crisis
Karl Aiginger – A Green Deal will not work without refocusing productivity
The new president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has announced a ‘European Green Deal’ and the Commission has asserted Europe’s need to develop a new growth model to achieve climate neutrality. However, […]
Climate Crisis
Andrew Simms: From emergency declarations to practical action
It may not be much, but it is a start. Read here A vision of sustainable city transport developed as part of the Liveable Cities Programme by Ashden
Climate Crisis
Giorgos Kallis – Limits
How did we come to think of limits as something to overcome? Political ecologist, ecological economist, and degrowth advocate Giorgos Kallis traces environmentalism’s scarcity mentality back to Malthus and explains why we need understand limits […]
Aviation
Info Barcelona: Climate emergency declared in Barcelona
The climate crisis is real. It’s not a drill. If we do nothing, Barcelona and the planet will become uninhabitable for future generations. In an effort to prevent that happening and mitigate the effects of […]
Economics
Ben Tarnoff: How to think about the relationship between capitalism and the internet
Building a better story about the internet. Read here
Climate Crisis
Peter Christoff – New Report Shows the World is Awash with Fossil Fuels. It’s Time to Cut Off Supply
Australia’s coal production is expected to jump by 34% to 2030, undercutting our climate efforts. Nikki Short/AAP Peter Christoff, University of Melbourne A new United Nations report shows the world’s major fossil fuel producing countries, […]
Austerity
Robin McAlpine: The Independence Movement’s Biggest Battle is Against Denial
Ashes on our heads. Due to all the major events in Europe of the past months we have ignored the Scottish Independence Movement. It is already knocking at the door. Do not underestimate it. The […]
Climate Crisis
Stanislas Jourdan – Green QE is about more than buying climate-friendly bonds
The recent declarations of new European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde on the possible role of her institution in the fight against climate change have revived pushbacks from central bankers and financial commentators against “green quantitative easing”. However, the […]