Monthly Archives: December 2011

Not a degrowth nor slowcialism topic, but interesting end of the calendar year reading. Project Censored has published its annual list of top censored press stories for 2011. It’s a bummer of course, but they do publish a follow-up of … Continue reading →

Steven Denning, Forbes, 20 December 2011 Throughout 2011, Michael Porter, strategy guru extraordinaire, and Mark Kramer have been championing the idea of “shared value” as a way of “fixing capitalism.” It began with their article entitled How To Fix Capitalism … Continue reading →

Posted at NL-AID 26 December 2011 Some, who may feel that within the limits of economics infinity is a rather silly idea, take it out to a point where it is claimed that human ingenuity is limitless and capable of … Continue reading →

Posted 20 Dec 2011 It is pleasing to see an increasing number of people starting to recognise that what we are seeing with the ‘economic downturn’ are the results of an unsustainable expansionist economic system that only works when it … Continue reading →

Posted on December 19, 2011 by robertkyriakides George Monbiot is arguing that “they bailed out the banks in days. But even deciding to bail out the planet is taking decades.” Unfortunately Mr Monbiot’s is accurate but perhaps not in the … Continue reading →

By Mohan Munasinghe* How Millennium Consumption Goals (MCGs) for the rich can make the planet more sustainable for everyone. This novel concept was recently proposed , with consumption targets that will enable the rich to make development more sustainable, while … Continue reading →

That’s the message of Vancouver’s Degrowth advocates, who scoff at city hall’s ‘greenest city’ pledge. By Justin Ritchie, Today, TheTyee.ca Unless you attended a debate, snatched up an inaugural copy of the Vancouver Degrowth newspaper, or caught sight of one … Continue reading →

Amid the financial crisis, “which in a way is concealing all other crises”, there isn’t much room to make progress in the formulation of alternatives within the framework of Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, says sociologist Boaventura de … Continue reading →

Posted 7 December 2011 Sadly, for many political and business leaders, [money] is all that counts. But it shouldn’t be. We need a new way of looking at what it means to live well within the Earth’s natural systems. We … Continue reading →

Every once in a while you see an image that really is worth a thousand words. Or maybe even an entire book!