This post is part of an on-going series highlighting what our members are currently reading in the Post Growth and sustainability realms. This month includes: a sharing ‘how-to’ guide, fiction, and economic/environmental analysis.
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This post is part of an on-going series highlighting what our members are currently reading in the Post Growth and sustainability realms. This month includes Slowcoast, Collaboration, and Wendell Berry.
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The first in an on-going series highlighting what our members are reading in the Post Growth and sustainability realms. June includes Smart Growth, Peoplequake, About A Mountain, and The Subsistence Perspective.
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In a two short weeks Town Hall Seattle will be hosting Paul Gilding, author of The Great Disruption. Paul will be discussing the now unavoidable consequences of climate change and the challenges humanity will face. But in the face of such great challenges Paul envisions it will bring out the best of us: compassion, innovation, [...]
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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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The pervasiveness of the growth model, particularly within media sources, can be unsettling. It is important that we seriously explore other economic possibilities. We can begin engaging with some of those alternatives now.
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If all we can expect from corporations is the “relentless maximization of shareholder value,” does that underline the basic illegitimacy of these organizations in a world where nature and communities are quickly circling the drain?
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Tim Jackson is a rock-star. At least in the post growth community, in my opinion. He has helped to further an intelligent, deliberate conversation about what we need as people on this planet: a healthy, sustainable, people and planet friendly economy. His book, Prosperity Without Growth, is by far one of the best reads on the subject [...]
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Along with consumption, the question of population is at the heart of growth and post growth issues – and this question has begun emerging into mainstream public debate.
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