Creating global prosperity without economic growth

February 2010

Add It Up & The Daly News

by Joshua Nelson on February 25, 2010

The Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) has released an entertaining animated short called Add It Up that outlines the conflict between economic growth and a finite planet. The animation, produced by film students at the University of Southern California, is available on CASSE’s website and YouTube, as well as here: The [...]

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Filter Failure

by Scott Gast on February 14, 2010

We’ll need to develop better filters to deal with growing floods of information, experts say. But is there more to the story?

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Peak Sleep

by Sharon Ede on February 3, 2010

Is there a correlation between the growth-fuelled consumer culture – an explosion of choice and stuff – and people being increasingly time-poor and sleep-deprived?

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“In the next ten years we shall increase our wealth by fifty percent. The profound question is – does this mean that we will be fifty percent richer in a real sense, fifty percent better off, fifty percent happier?”

Excerpt from the Chafee Memorial Lecture given at the New Green Economy Conference in Washington, DC.

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