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The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
A steady-state economy can allow us to choose goals that don’t raid our attention, and don’t raid the planet’s resources.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Richard Heinberg and his colleagues at the Post-Carbon Institute have outlined Four Ways to Decline:
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Daniel Christian Wahl • Building a regenerative future
Increasingly, people accept the once controversial notion that the future calls for a society with no economic growth. A planet with limited resources cannot host unlimited growth (Kenneth Boulding, the economist, mystic, and peace activist, once quipped, “Anybody who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madma
... See moreFrederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
“steady-state economy.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
This 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 pre
... See moreJason Hickel • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
The global ‘Eco-City Movement’ and the work of eco-city pioneer Richard Register, who founded ‘Ecocity Builders’ in 1992, have helped to develop the ‘International Ecocity Framework and Standards (IEFS)’.
Daniel Wahl • Designing Regenerative Cultures
When the 2°C target was announced at the Copenhagen summit in 2009, Lumumba Di-Aping, the Sudanese chief negotiator for the G77, said: ‘We have been asked to sign a suicide pact.’ ‘It is unfortunate,’ he went on, ‘that after 500 years-plus of interaction with the West we are still considered “disposables”.’ Cheap nature, he might have added.