Monthly Archives: October 2015

Many environmentalists rejoiced when Stephen Harper’s government was thrown out of office in Canada. But Justin Trudeau is no savior… But that does not mean that the world is without visionary climate leadership—on the contrary. In the five years it … Continue reading →

We could live in a country powered entirely by renewable energy, woven together by accessible public transit, in which the jobs and opportunities of this transition are designed to systematically eliminate racial and gender inequality. We know that the time … Continue reading →

More than a year after the degrowth conference in Leipzig, we are now launching the degrowth media library. There, you can find all the contributions to the degrowth conference and many more articles, videos and photos about degrowth – easily … Continue reading →

The achievement of Le Guin is that she presents neither a utopia nor a dystopia. She describes an alternatively organized human society as is, with its goods and bads. Science fiction is not predicting where we are heading, or dictating … Continue reading →

I would like to begin by complimenting this excellent essay. It summarizes with an economy of words and simplicity of language the considerable work of John Bellamy Foster in developing the concept of “metabolic rift,” advancing an ecological Marxism, and … Continue reading →

Dennis Meadows June 2015 The Limits to Growth, released in 1972, has profoundly influenced environmental research and discourse over the past four decades. Allen White of the Tellus Institute talks with Dennis Meadows, one of its co-authors, about the genesis … Continue reading →

Earth Overshoot Day in 2015 occurred on August 13. This means that August 13 was the day when humanity’s annual demand for the resources that the Earth can provide (food products, resources such as cotton and wood, and carbon dioxide … Continue reading →

Despite research telling us it’s a really bad idea, many of us end up working 50-hour weeks or more because we think we’ll get more done and reap the benefits later. And according to a study published last month involving … Continue reading →

A transcript of a presentation in Australia well worth reading. I make the argument in [my] book that we need a “movement of movements” and we need to build coalitions across traditional divisions. We need environmentalists working with trade unions … Continue reading →