Economic Inequality: What Can We Do About It?
Roar Bjonnes
By Roar Bjonnes According to the Gini Index, in every major region of the world outside of Europe, extreme wealth is becoming concentrated in
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The Myth of Externalities and Carbon Credits
Roar Bjonnes
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
The Green Revolution is a warning, not a blueprint for feeding a hungry planet
Systems Change Alliance
A farmer spreads fertilizer in a wheat field outside Amritsar, India. Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images Glenn Davis Stone, Sweet Briar College Feeding a growing
Microplastics in Clouds Could Be ‘Contaminating Nearly Everything We Eat and Drink’: Study
Systems Change Alliance
People hold umbrellas as they walk in the rain in Tokyo on September 15, 2023. (Photo: Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Images) A Common Dreams article
Global Campaigners Call On Norway to Ditch Deep-Sea Mining Plan
Systems Change Alliance
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
Why Companies Are Reducing Carbon Emissions and How They Can Track Their Progress
Systems Change Alliance
Specially written for SYSTEMSCHANGEALLIANCE.org By: Rennifer Jayleen With adverse weather conditions and hard-hitting calamities ravaging all parts of the world, corporations need to start addressing
Saving the Planet: Degrowth or Green Growth?
Systems Change Alliance
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
Failed EU Policy: Cutting trees for “green energy”
Systems Change Alliance
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
Why Working Regeneratively Is (R)evolutionary
Systems Change Alliance
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
Solving the Inequality Gap: Progressive Taxation or Economic Democracy?
Systems Change Alliance
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,
