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Occupy Eyewitness – London

by Sharon Ede on November 11, 2011

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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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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Robin Hoodies

by Joshua Nelson on April 7, 2010

A new video just released from the Robin Hood Tax Campaign, featuring Sir Ben Kingsley (amongst others, if you can recognize them), a follow up to their first video featuring Bill Nighy. This is a post growth policy if there ever was one! It works rather simply, too, with a minuscule tax of 0.05% on all financial [...]

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Successfully transitioning from growth means breaking the population taboo – we must address both consumption and population, as both play a role in determining how ‘big’ humanity becomes.

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