Lessons from a traditional story can be quite relevant to today’s emerging post growth world.
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Culture
The Promise of Ecopsychology
Addressing the Psychological and Spiritual Pain Associated with the Industrial Growth Society
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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The problem is unemployment; only growth can create the jobs. Schools and hospitals are underfunded; the answer is faster growth. We can’t afford to protect the environment; the solution is more growth. Poverty is entrenched; growth will rescue the poor. Income distribution is unequal; the answer is more growth. If the answer to the problem [...]
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It’s time to let go of both the blind faith that economic growth will fix things, and of the fear of what alternatives to growth-based economies could look like.
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Sharon’s observations in London on the day Occupy London commenced, and footage and reflections by Mike Freedman, including an interesting insight into Occupy from the perspective of the police.
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This is the first in a series of articles from the Post Growth Institute reporting on-the-ground impressions of Occupy events around the world. How did you first hear about Occupy? I live part of the year in New York and part in Sweden. The first news I heard of Occupy were whisperings in emails from [...]
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Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve read a series of good news stories that were accidentally written up in the business section as bad news.
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Sharing is Caring
Why handing out money is a good practice
To celebrate Free Money Day, Brendan Rigby thinks about how the concept of access has come to shape not only our economies, but also our education.
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