How can sharing answer some of today’s biggest questions: about meeting our needs, reducing our impact, and living healthy and full lives?
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Culture
Four Degrees of Sharing
Taking Sharing to New Levels
Child Poverty in Context
More Than One Way Forward
We have seen, within Canada, that economic growth does not lead directly to poverty alleviation. Why, then, is it a ‘priority theme’ within our international aid programs? There are feasible alternatives.
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The first of a three part series that looks at how intentionally creating the homes we live in can be part of a larger movement that is ‘good, clean, and fair.’
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Change In The Rangelands
How Case Studies Can Mask the True Story
The International Rangelands Congress brought together professionals working on the production and sustainability of rangelands. Despite their importance to our environment and people, they are undergoing rapid change that threatens their very existence.
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Book Review: Not For Profit by Martha C. Nussbaum
Why Democracy Needs The Humanities
‘Education for democracy’, according th Martha Nussbaum, requires that we value the humanities and the arts in that they cultivate compassion, critical thinking, and imagination. Whether or not this is compatible with ‘education for economic growth’ is still up for debate.
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What if the economy listened? What if the economy stopped talking to itself – to its own swirl of messages and indicators and pundits and forecasts – and actually gave an earnest ear to the world around it?
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Postcards From Afghanistan
One Guy's Take on Growth and the War Machine
Growth doesn’t only perpetuate unsustainable consumption, but social injustices as well. Through the experiences of one civilian in Afghanistan, we are encouraged to consider the complexity of global politics, as well as our own complicitness.
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Present day Canadian society is literally oblivious. Everyone knows the state that the environment is in yet very few advocate changing it. It is this lack of drive and sense of impending doom that acts as an inhibitor for Canadians to let go of the “most recent past”. As more and more Canadians are seen [...]
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In March 2011, Mitch Epstein was awarded the Prix Pictet, an annual photography prize for work that highlights social and environmental issues, with this year’s theme being ‘Growth’. Epstein’s winning series of photographs is called ‘American Power’ in which he documented ‘a consumerist society inured to the consequences of unbridled consumption where growth no longer meant progress, but self-destruction.’
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