02/11/2222
The Urgent Need for Planetary Systems Change
In February, 2022, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued “a stark warning about the impact of climate change on people and the planet, saying that ecosystem co…
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01/11/2222
By Richard Heinberg
The world teeters on the brink of economic disaster due to energy shortages caused by war. The main oil-producing nations are unable and unwilling to increase output, even though prices are high and threatening to go much highe…
01/10/2222
By Roar Bjonnes
Green economics is supposed to save us from climate change and environmental catastrophe. There are, however, competing ideas about how to best proceed.
Degrowth advocates claim that it is unregulated growth that drove us into t…
12/09/2222
By Roar Bjonnes
Sure, trees are renewable sources of building materials and even energy. After cutting, they will eventually grow back. But trees are also one of the main ways that nature absorbs harmful CO2 gasses. Therefore, given the climate cr…
27/08/2222
By Daniel Christian Wahl
First published in July 2021 by Sustainable Brands (see link)
In the autumn of 2018, Walter J. Thompson published a report entitled The New Sustainability: Regeneration. Interest in regenerative development ha…
13/08/2222
By Roar Bjonnes
When editor-in-chief of multinational business magazine Fortune, Alyson Shontell, asked in its June/July 2022 issue if it’s time for a maximum wage, she got my attention. Back in the early 90’s, when I was an editor I published an …
08/08/2222
By Roar Bjonnes
More electric cars are needed to save us from using fossil fuels to save us from global warming. These electric cars need cobalt, a naturally occurring metal and an essential ingredient in the lithium-ion batteries powerin…
03/08/2222
We're going to have to start coming to terms with nature's limits.
RICHARD HEINBERG
July 27, 2022
Will civilization collapse because it's running out of oil? That question was debated hotly almost 20 years ago; today, not so much. Judging by G…
20/07/2222
By Daniel Christian Wahl
Our current economic and monetary systems are structurally dysfunctional and at best serve a few (for a while) while more and more people share less and less. Under no circumstances will they deliver a healthy, meaningful …
11/07/2222
When editor-in-chief of multinational business magazine Fortune, Alyson Shontell, asked in its June/July 2022 issue if it’s time for a maximum wage, she got my attention. Back in the early 90’s, when I was an editor I published an article by Sam Pizz…
20/06/2222
At 66, I am old enough to remember when the local economy was still thriving. I grew up in an extended family on a small island in Norway. All the apples, berries, pears, and cherries we ate, especially during fall and winter, had been cultivated in …
13/06/2222
Whenever there's an energy crisis, it can quickly become an everything crisis.
Everyone who owns a gasoline-burning car has noticed that fuel prices have shot up in recent weeks. And most of us have read headlines about high energy prices dri…
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In the eighth episode of the A Systems Change Deep Dive podcast, we explore Digital Monitoring, Verification and Reporting (D-MRV) of Nature-based Projects and Community Empowerment with Jean-Pierre du Plessis, Co-Founder of African Data Technologies.
Apr 09, 2022
In the eighth episode of the A Systems Change Deep Dive podcast, we explore Digital Monitoring, Verification and Reporting (D-MRV) of Nature-based Projects and Community Empowerment with Jean-Pierre du Plessis, Co-Founder of African Data Technologies.
Apr 02, 2022
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.
Mar 26, 2022
In the sixth episode of the A Systems Change Deep Dive podcast, we explore blue carbon and ecosystem restoration with Prof. Peter Macreadie, Founder and Head of Deakin University's Blue Carbon Lab.
Mar 23, 2022
In the fifth episode of the A Systems Change Deep Dive podcast, we explore rewilding and permafrost conservation with Paul Streifeneder, Project Manager at the Pleistocene & Permafrost Foundation.
Mar 12, 2022
In the fourth episode of the A Systems Change Deep Dive podcast, we explore marine permaculture and sea forestation with Brian von Herzen, founder and executive director of the Climate Foundation.
Mar 09, 2022
In the third episode of the A Systems Change Deep Dive podcast, we explore carbon capture and storage with Kim Bye Bruun, Communications & Government Relations Director for Northern Lights.
Mar 09, 2022
In the second episode of the A Systems Change Deep Dive podcast, we explore regenerative farming and grazing rotations with Joel Salatin, co-owner of Polyface Farm.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Aug 20, 2020
Learning from human history. Not all peoples and cultures from the past were environmentalists. What can we learn from their mistakes?
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?
Jul 24, 2020
Is making capitalism more green a practical strategy? How can an economy built on greed create global economic justice and ecological balance?
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.
