Creating global prosperity without economic growth

April 2010

Limits Literacy

by Sharon Ede on April 28, 2010

Do people understand and accept the concept of ecological limits? We can convey this to people, who typically tend to comprehend things as they manifest at the local scale, by unearthing the local lore relating to limits.

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Can the economy continue to grow on a finite planet? Some have already realized the answer to this question is an unequivocal “no” and moved onto the question of “what next?” Perhaps we should not necessarily ask ourselves “what’s next?” but how do we get to “next” in the first place? (you can read why [...]

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What comes first: personal freedom or the Earth?

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Robin Hoodies

by Joshua Nelson on April 7, 2010

A new video just released from the Robin Hood Tax Campaign, featuring Sir Ben Kingsley (amongst others, if you can recognize them), a follow up to their first video featuring Bill Nighy. This is a post growth policy if there ever was one! It works rather simply, too, with a minuscule tax of 0.05% on all financial [...]

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