The Post-Growth Challenge
Systems Change Alliance
Calling writers, artists, designers and video makers!Can you make a Post Growth Policy Package? An initiative by Steady State Manchester in collaboration with the Manchester
Category: Economy
Beyond Collapse: The Prophetic Voices of Umair Haque, Ravi Batra, Peter Turchin, and H. T. Odum
Roar Bjonnes
Many writers nowadays are addressing the urgency of acting on the multiple crises we currently face: we are at the brink of civilizational collapse and risk a future of murder and mayhem. But they are not just doomsayers with apocalyptic visions, they also offer solutions to prevent them.
What Comes After the Crash? The Sequel
Roshnii Rose
Inspired by the life and work of David Fleming, economist, ecologist, green political campaigner, visionary and writer. The Sequel is a one-hour documentary made following the publication of Fleming’s great work, Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It.
Indian Women Turn to Ancient Grains to Feed Their Families and Their Futures
Anne Pinto-Rodrigues
Vizianagaram district is one of several places in India experiencing the revival of millet cultivation and is becoming a hub of cooperatives, empowering local women.
Why Free Trade is not Always Free
Roar Bjonnes
The common myth today is that free trade is good and that protectionism is bad. But it all depends. Free trade easily becomes a tool to entrench the competitive advantage of the countries already ahead, and an impassable obstacle for the countries trying to catch up.
There must be some way out of here: policies, politics and possibilities in the pancrisis
Mark Burton
As the urgency of the combined economic, social resource and ecological crises facing humanity becomes more apparent, well-meaning policy proposals to transition to a post-growth economy are being put forward. But do they address the heart of the problem?
Doughnut Economics: from a radical idea to transformative action
Systems Change Alliance
For those new to Doughnut Economics, the central model is the Doughnut, which brings together both social and ecological thinking into one core concept, that of meeting the needs of all people, within the means of the living planet. By Rob Shorter and Carlota Sanz.
Land Ownership & Racial Justice
Systems Change Alliance
“We still think of land as property, as inert in some way and something that we can own. What if we related to the land as an animate object and had a reciprocal relationship with it?” Discussion between Josina Calliste and Mark Walton.
Six Questions About Whole Systems Thinking
Daniel Christian Wahl
Whole-systems thinking invites us to see the whole as more than the simple sum of its parts, to face complex issues from multiple perspectives, to suspend our judgement by questioning our own assumptions, and to honour insights from different disciplines and different ways of knowing.
The Failures of Modern Economic Theories
Roar Bjonnes
Why have modern economic theories been so out of touch with the real world? The answer lies in their basic assumptions about human nature—that we humans mainly exist to produce and consume. This article explains the history of this economic vision and why it has failed.
