Oregon is an interesting state. It is one of the three states on the pacific coast, equally mixed with both liberal and conservative thought, and full of beautiful landscape. I spent my early years in Oregon, both Northern and Southern. There are some serious, progressive discussions going on in Oregon. A recent article on Oregon [...]
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Some voices in Asia are questioning the meaning of GDP—and the wisdom of measuring success through its lens.
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The Transition Movement is about creating more resiliency in local communities in order to respond to the “Hydrocarbon Twins” of peak oil and climate change positively. It is about creating a better, more sustainable way of living in a world without oil and with an altered climate. Both of these shocks to the world are [...]
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Even Ben Bernanke knows money doesn’t equal happiness.
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We’re pleased to introduce our first guest contributor, Rob Dietz, Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. This is a cross-posting of his most recent work on The Daly News, CASSE’s blog. Annie Leonard’s The Story of Stuff, the explosive online video (now also expanded into a book), provides an entertaining explanation [...]
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What’s the economy got to do with a certain Keanu Reeves action movie? Quite a bit, unfortunately.
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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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The Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) has released an entertaining animated short called Add It Up that outlines the conflict between economic growth and a finite planet. The animation, produced by film students at the University of Southern California, is available on CASSE’s website and YouTube, as well as here: The [...]
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