Last month the (En)Rich List was unveiled here at PGI. Coming out on top was E F Schumacher, one of the most influential men of the 2oth century. But who was Ernest Fritz Schumacher, and what makes him so important? Fritz Schumacher was born in Germany 1911, in time to spend his childhood in the [...]
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I spent the day last Monday at the United Nations by invitation of the Bhutanese government (along with about 600 other guests). The event was called “High Level Meeting on Well-being and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm.” I thought, “It must not be very high-level if I am invited.” Nonetheless, there I was among [...]
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On September 15, 2011, people handed out their own money to complete strangers, asking recipients to pass half on to someone else. Here are our reflections on the event, and details about Free Money Day 2012.
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We are very excited to share news of our latest project: The (En)Rich List.
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When it comes to international donating practices, bottom-line logic may be working against the best interests of global citizens.
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This is part of an ongoing series highlighting what our members are currently reading in the Post Growth and sustainability realms. This month includes In Praise of Slowness, The Web of Life, and This Changes Everything.
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Lessons from a traditional story can be quite relevant to today’s emerging post growth world.
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Ecopsychology offers meaningful routes towards personal responsibility when it comes to the cultivation of post growth futures. Dare we go where it invites us?
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The Occupy movements can create greater internal resilience whilst simultaneously building for a huge 2012; taking the movement’s peer-to-peer nature one step further by employing a simple technique called ‘asset mapping’.
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