Monthly Archives: July 2013

By Gustavo Capdevil GENEVA, Jul 2013 (IPS) – Staunch opposition by the U.S. delegation and, to one extent or another, by European countries has blocked the approval this year of a draft multilateral declaration on the rights of peasants and … Continue reading →

Schumacher Center for a New Economics – Panel – 46 minute audio The transformative concept behind Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) – in which citizens share the risks and successes of a business with the entrepreneur – is increasingly understood in … Continue reading →

By ANTHONY R. INGRAFFEA July 28, 2013 ITHACA, N.Y. — MANY concerned about climate change, including President Obama, have embraced hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. In his recent climate speech, the president went so far as to lump gas with … Continue reading →

Vincent Liegey : “The freedom to consume is a costly illusion” – A Degrowth Project Publié le janvier 10, 2013 par Vincze By AgnèsRousseaux from BastaMag (March, 23 2013) “We have successfully created misery and ill-being in our opulent materialistic … Continue reading →

Grace Lee Boggs: ‘We Are Shaking the World With a New Dream’ While austerity-pushers press for Detroit bankruptcy, Boggs says city “providing a model for change in the world” As Detroit faces possible bankruptcy and more calls for safety-net shredding … Continue reading →

Dialogue with Miguel Altieri and Marc Dufumier: Sally Burch ALAI AMLAT-en, 24/07/2013.- There is a growing interest, not only in the rural world but also among urban populations, in ecological agriculture, due to its potential to ensure food supplies that … Continue reading →

Abstract: Current macroeconomic policy promotes continuous economic growth. Unemployment, poverty and debt are associated with insufficient growth. Economic activity depends upon the transformation of natural materials, ultimately returning to the environment as waste. Current levels of economic throughput exceed the … Continue reading →

From http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/07/22/us-greens-deep-green-altermativ A deep green program for saving the world and building better lives: Reduce working hours to ensure that everyone has enough work and no one is overworked, while building safer and healthier communities. This document, which has been … Continue reading →

In September, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release its much-anticipated report on the latest global scientific consensus on man-made global warming, but last week The Economist magazine released a portion of the report that claimed to … Continue reading →

Samuel Jaberg, swissinfo.ch July 14, 2013 – 11:00 Mirko Locatelli is a hardline critic of consumerism and the Western ideology of growth. The native Italian speaker, who lives in canton Vaud, is a dedicated degrowth activist, but says he’s no … Continue reading →