Systems Change Alliance

Articles

Nine Ways to Create a Local, Regenerative Economy

30/07/2121

Summary of Workshop by Roar Bjonnes The slogan “Think Globally, Act Locally” has been around for some years now. Only a few decades ago, vibrant local economies were indeed more prevalent: people grew food in their own backyards, local agriculture…

Economic Degrowth: The Solution to Climate Breakdown

21/07/2121

We hear a lot about the damaging effect global warming has, and will increasingly have, on the global economy. We are at a crucial environmental tipping point. Many scientists point out that now is the time to act—tomorrow will be too late. But very …

E.F. Schumacher and the Limitations of Green Capitalism

23/06/2121

The German-British economist, E. F. Schumacher, was the first modern economist to highlight the need for a green economy. What Adam Smith did for classical economics and Marx did for socialism, Schumacher has done for green capitalism. In his path br…

Restoring Broken Boundaries: Scientist Johan Rockstrom’s Message for Dark Times

22/06/2121

Scientist Johan Rockstrom has become a rock star climate activist. He can be seen all over the internet these days, in TED talks and among world leaders, sharing disturbing predictions backed up by hard scientific data. In the recent Netflix film Bre…

Corporate Giants to Soak Up Global Water Supply?

21/04/2121

The French corporate giant Veolia plans to dominate the global water market in a $15 billion merger with its main competitor, Suez. Critics warn that this will create a dangerous global monopoly and further erode public control of precious water reso…

Seaspiracy: New Documentary About the Fishy Side of the Sea Food Industry

02/04/2121

If you ever thought that eating more sea fish is much more sustainable than, let’s say, eating beef, then you ought to think again. If you ever want to know why, then watch Seaspiracy, a shockingly effective expose of the dark secrets of the fishing …

Karl Polanyi: The Economic Prophet Who Predicted Why the Market Would Fail Us

10/03/2121

Karl Polanyi, the Hungarian economist, was an intellectual giant of his time and prophetic in his vision of the failure of market economics. Long before it was fashionable to be an environmentalist or critical of the capitalist growth economy, he pre…

The Water Crisis: A Clear Sign We Are Living Beyond Our Means

28/01/2121

Short of the air we breathe, water is the most vital component in our life. Unfortunately, there are alarming signs we are running out of this precious liquid. Water scarcity is already looming, and the increasing demands for this “blue gold” in grow…

Beyond Carbon Offsets: We Need Real Carbon Neutral Solutions

13/01/2121

According to Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the financial markets are humanity’s only hope in reducing global warming. He said this in late September 2013, when he, presented the most air-tigh…

Beyond Collapse: The Prophetic Voices of Umair Haque, Ravi Batra, Peter Turchin, and H. T. Odum

04/01/2121

In the title track to Leonard Cohen's 1992 album The Future, the legendary folk singer croons in his raspy baritone: "I've seen the future, baby: It is murder." Cohen is not the only self-proclaimed prophet who has seen the future in recent year…

Why Free Trade is not Always Free

10/12/2020

The common myth today is that free trade is good and that protectionism is bad. But it all depends. The prevailing views expressed by the World Trade Organization and others involved in negotiating free trade agreements, is that free trade helps ever…

The Failures of Modern Economic Theories

10/11/2020

“Free markets will save the world.” We have heard that slogan for many years now. Yet free markets have not saved the world. To the contrary, finance crises, climate change, growing inequality and wars fought over oil and other resources, modern econ…

123 4

Podcasts

Carbon Offsets with Niklas Kaskeala, Chief Impact Officer at Compensate

Feb 19, 2022

In the first episode, we explore the world of carbon offsetting and the voluntary carbon market with Niklas Kaskeala, Chief Impact Officer at Compensate.

Listen »