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A New Renaissance of Local Farms, Local Food, and Local Economies

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 …

The Energy and Food Crisis Is Far Worse Than Most People Realize

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…

The New Economy Movement Comes of Age

01/06/2222
By Michael Towsey  May 2022 The publication of Growing a New Economy by Roar Bjonnes and Caroline Hargreaves[1] was a milestone in the history of Proutist literature because it was the first comprehensive introduction to P…

The Upset about Carbon Offsets

26/05/2222
What is carbon offsetting? If you are concerned about global warming and you are the CEO of a corporation in Europe or the US, and your company’s production plants pollute the air and water with various chemicals, then you’d naturally want to do s…

Five Ways Food Production Can Reduce Our Carbon Footprint

04/04/2222
1. Plant-Centered Diet Photo by Anna Pelzer on Unsplash The Western diet is increasingly meat-centered and raising livestock accounts for nearly 15% of global greenhouse gasses. If livestock were a nation of their own, it would be the third gre…

Protect Ecosystems Before Planting Trees

22/02/2222
This article originally appeared on Mongabay. When it comes to slowing climate change, there’s one natural solution that has recently gripped the world: large-scale tree planting and reforestation.But a new study warns that other natural climate s…

Carbon Capture Can Be Part of the Climate Solution

10/02/2222
This artice was originally published in Jacobin. Imagine a group of campers carelessly polluting the forest, leaving beer cans, plastic wrappers, and propane tanks strewn about the understory. An ecologist comes upon their campsite and explains ho…
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Rewilding and Permafrost Conservation with Paul Streifeneder
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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.
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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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