
Saving the Planet: Degrowth or Green Growth?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Between 60-80 per cent of the impacts on the planet come from household consumption. If we change our consumption habits, this will have a drastic effect on our environmental footprint as well. But is it realistic to expect that individual lifestyle changes alone will have the needed impact on reducing CO2 emissions?
Will the COP26 have the power to create much-needed systemic change? Many experts, writers, and activists are critical of the underlying motivations behind, as well as the proposed outcomes of, the COP26 summit.
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