Monthly Archives: July 2012

By Fiona Harvey, Guardian Weekly, 12 July 2012 Climate change researchers have been able to attribute recent examples of extreme weather to the effects of human activity on the planet’s climate systems for the first time, marking a major step … Continue reading →

This article in the July 2012 issue of Red Pepper is quite relevant to our discussions about degrowth. Michel Bauwens’ article examines how collaborative, commons-based activities (including manufacturing, information and even money) are emerging to challenge capitalism. Hilary Wainwright poses … Continue reading →

In Peter Dubés novel, “The City’s Gates”, Montreal is gearing up for the World Economic Forum. On one side are those preparing to welcome the policymakers and moneylenders; on the other are groups ready to protest the evils of capitalism … Continue reading →

by Laura Kaminker A review of Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus and Simon Butler. “The clarity of the authors’ arguments, their unassailable reasoning, their thorough research, the full transparency of their worldview, and … Continue reading →

Friday, 13 July 2012 16:38 Beyond GDP lies Economic Degrowth By Joan Martinez-Alier The expression Beyond GDP, is in fashion in Brussels among some European civil servants and politicians, 40 years after Commission President Sicco Mansholt had already criticized GDP, … Continue reading →

Throughout June, the United States was hit by freak storms, intense heatwaves, prolonged drought, huge floods and out-of-control bushfires that have burnt out more than 2.1 million acres… “This is what global warming looks like at the regional or personal … Continue reading →

Another element of the degrowth and population debate! Bob by Betsy Hartmann On July 11, World Population Day, the British government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are hosting an international Family Planning Summit in London to launch an … Continue reading →