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Local, human-scale economies and food systems that honor the “triple bottom line”: people, planet, and profits.
Bill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
Katherine Collins has become an outspoken architect of investment strategies that help propel us toward a circular economy.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance
“Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life,”45 and sometimes the solution: we need a “Marshall Plan for the Earth.”
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
scenarios, which we named Gray, Green, and Gaia. We crafted them as “news feeds from the future,” and included a guiding strategy document. Andrew: OK, let’s take it from the top. Gray? Gopal: Gray is more or less business as usual extrapolated out. It’s the mostly collapsitarian view of how the social and ecological implications of climate will
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greatgtown.orgThis realisation first struck home in 1972, when a team of scientists at MIT published a groundbreaking report titled Limits to Growth. The report outlined findings from the team’s cutting-edge work using a powerful computer model called World3, which was designed to analyse complex ecological, social and economic data from 1900 to 1970, and to
... See moreJason Hickel • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
This was the world’s current reigning religion, it had to be admitted: growth. It was a kind of existential assumption, as if civilization were a kind of cancer and them all therefore committed to growth as their particular deadly form of life. But this time, growth might be reconfiguring itself as the growth of some kind of safety. Call it
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