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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We are very excited to share news of our latest project: The (En)Rich List.
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Post growth futures require that we collectively re-set, not offset.
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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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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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(written with Donnie Maclurcan) In front of a packed audience of 1,000 in Sydney on Monday night, U.S. Professor of Population Studies Paul Ehrlich delivered the Jack Beale address on population. On the same day, the United Nations estimated that the world reached a total population of 7 billion, taking just 12 years for the last [...]
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If we are serious about ending poverty, we have to be serious about ending the systems that create poverty by robbing the poor of their common wealth, livelihoods and incomes.
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