Post-Growth Challenge Results
Systems Change Alliance
The results of the Post-Growth Challenge are finally here! Back in January, together with Steady State Manchester and The Manchester Meteor, we challenged you to
Category: Economy
Corporate Giants to Soak Up Global Water Supply?
Roar Bjonnes
The increasing privitazation of natural resources threatens to diminish the commons. The corporate merger of Veolia and Suez is currently endangering public control of precious water resources.
Could a Green New Deal Save Civilization?
Richard Heinberg
To fully and systematically address the climate/energy crisis, the plan will have to be far broader in scope than what is currently being proposed. And while we need to mobilize society as a whole with a World War II-level of effort, the reality is that there’s never been a challenge like this before.
A Project for the COP26 – and Beyond
Dr Justin Stevens
In early 2020, Arkbound Foundation began putting together a landmark publication on climate change for the COP26 Summit in Glasgow. The summit was postponed to
Seaspiracy: New Documentary About the Fishy Side of the Sea Food Industry
Roar Bjonnes
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 industry by Ali and Lucy Tabrizi.
Karl Polanyi: The Economic Prophet Who Predicted Why the Market Would Fail Us
Roar Bjonnes
Long before it was fashionable to be an environmentalist or critical of the capitalist growth economy, Karl Polyani predicted the market economy’s inherent contradictions and ultimate failure.
What Would a Regenerative Economy Look Like?
Daniel Christian Wahl
Daniel Christian Wahl offers a series of questions that can support your community to explore what a regenerative economy would look like in your bioregion.
Pandemic Response Requires Post-Growth Economic Thinking
Richard Heinberg
The coronavirus pandemic has caused a sea change in priorities, which requires entirely different thinking and policies—ones much more closely aligned with heterodox post-growth thinking than with pro-growth economic orthodoxy.
What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
Jeremy Lent
We need to forge a new era for humanity—one that is defined, at its deepest level, by a transformation in the way we make sense of the world, and a concomitant revolution in our values, goals, and collective behavior. In short, we need to change the basis of our global civilization. We must move from a civilization based on wealth accumulation to one that is life-affirming: an ecological civilization.
What Will It Take to “Build Back Better”?
David Korten
In discussing our options, we too often get sidetracked into a debate between political philosophies—capitalism vs. socialism—that sidesteps the larger issues. We need a different framework. Our common future depends on serious institutional rethinking and restructuring to localize power and share it on a global scale.
