Creating global prosperity without economic growth

In China, entire cities are being built for no one. A likely reason: GDP growth.

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On a Knife Edge

by Scott Gast on May 26, 2010

Oil is gushing from the Gulf. Could leaving it in the ground lead to an economy that actually fits the planet?

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Stuck on the Bus

by Scott Gast on May 2, 2010

What’s the economy got to do with a certain Keanu Reeves action movie? Quite a bit, unfortunately.

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What comes first: personal freedom or the Earth?

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Fear of Fallowing

by Scott Gast on March 28, 2010

Compress the past million years of human development into 24 hours, and the journey from steam engine to search engine amounts to about 21 seconds. But is that pace sustainable?

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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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As human activity more closely influences ecological systems, everything gets more complicated.

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