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How “Weeds” Can Seed Ecosystems of Interspecies Activity

09/02/2424
In the article The Future is Feral—And Climate Resilient in Yes! Magazine, Irene Lyla Lee suggests that it is time to change our attitude towards feral plants. They are not just weeds; they are an integral part of the environment we live in.  …

Building a regenerative future

08/02/2424
Why the potential of people, and the places that communities inhabit, is the key to addressing the climate crisis Our times call for “stubborn optimism”, as Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac suggest in their 2020 book The Future We Ch…

Cooperative Economics: Promises and Challenges

31/01/2424
The contemporary corporation is primarily driven by the pursuit of short-term profits for its shareholders. In contrast, cooperative companies tend to adopt a more holistic perspective on business operations. Numerous studies have demonstrated that c…

Economic Inequality: What Can We Do About It?

21/11/2323
   According to the Gini Index, in every major region of the world outside of Europe, extreme wealth is becoming concentrated in just a handful of people. “In 2021, the richest 1% of Americans owned 34.9% of the country’s we…

The Myth of Externalities and Carbon Credits

01/11/2323
In today’s economy, if an industrial plant upriver creates water pollution, and a community downriver is forced to cover the cost of the cleanup, it is considered an externality for the company causing the pollution. These types of external…

Global Campaigners Call On Norway to Ditch Deep-Sea Mining Plan

16/10/2323
A Common Dreams article By: Julia Conley Calling on Norway to "live up to the responsibilities" it has as co-chair of an international panel on sustainable oceans, more than 30 climate and conservation organizations on Monday delivered a letter…
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Podcasts

Systems Change Deep Dives
Systems Change Deep Dives
Forest Regeneration and Community Capacity Building with Julian Ekelhof
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In the seventh episode of the A Systems Change Deep Dive podcast, we explore forest regeneration and community capacity building with Julian Ekelhof, Senior Director of Climate Solutions at FORLIANCE.
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It’s Time for Economic Democracy

It’s Time for Economic Democracy

Dec 15, 2020
The best selling French economist Thomas Piketty has documented in well researched detail how inequality is increasing in the world today. His solution? A global wealth tax on the rich. But is that enough to create a more just and equitable economy? In this podcast, Roar Bjonnes suggests that tax reforms are not enough and that what we need instead is economic systems change through economic democracy.
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Eight Design Principles for a Local Economy

Eight Design Principles for a Local Economy

Nov 12, 2020
Shopping locally, growing some of our own fruits and vegetables, these are all very important habits to cultivate if we want to create deeper systems change. But individual changes are not enough in order to stem the tide of economic destruction against nature and the local economy. In this podcast, Roar Bjonnes outlines the eight design principles we need to implement a truly local economy.
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Beyond Green Capitalism: Economic Systems Change for the Next Seven Generations

Beyond Green Capitalism: Economic Systems Change for the Next Seven Generations

Oct 27, 2020
Corporate capitalism is addicted to making money and therefore has a very short planning cycle--hardly longer than its next quarterly profit fix. A truly green, regenerative economy will have to plan long term. To do that, we need deeper economic changes. In this episode, Roar Bjonnes talks about the two most important systems changes needed to create an eco-economy of the future.
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Beyond Green Capitalism

Beyond Green Capitalism

Oct 09, 2020
Green capitalism is overlooking a fundamental issue in economics; an issue that we need to overcome through systemic restructuring in order to create a sustainable economy. In this episode of Musings on Systems Change, Roar Bjonnes talks about what this fundamental issue is and how to overcome and go beyond the limits of green capitalism.
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The Triple Bottom Line: Green Capitalism

The Triple Bottom Line: Green Capitalism

Sep 25, 2020
In this new Musings on Systems Change podcast, Roar Bjonnes asks if the popular Triple Bottom Line slogan of green capitalism--Profit, People, Planet--which has been adopted by companies such as Shell, is really enough in creating systems change in economics.
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Green Gone Wrong

Green Gone Wrong

Aug 13, 2020
Is sustainable capitalism just another green mean machine or does it hold the promise of a new economy? Can we solve our environmental problems by producing and buying green products?
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The European Union – What Went Wrong and When – Erik S. Reinert

The European Union – What Went Wrong and When – Erik S. Reinert

Jul 16, 2020
Professor Erik S. Reinert is a Professor of Technology Governance and Development Strategies. His book "How Rich Countries Got Rich … and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor" won the Myrdal Prize in economics and the Norwegian Selvaag Prize, both in 2008. Professor Reinert is one of the best-known heterodox economists of our times.
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