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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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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The acceptance of the Earth’s physical limits and how to respond to this reality often creates a division between those supporting a reduction in population and those supporting a reduction in consumption, yet this distinction is an artificial one.
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For audiences where concern for ecosystems and biodiversity may not resonate, expressing limits in terms of risk and safety – a ‘safe operating limit’ – could be a powerful way to help communicate the importance of limits.
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The community of post growth thinkers around the world is abuzz with the prospect of Dick Smith’s Wilberforce Award. Announced a couple of weeks ago, the $1 million dollars will be awarded “to anyone under 30 who can impress Dick by becoming famous through his or her ability to show leadership in communicating an alternative [...]
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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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Why do we work? Profit, it turns out, isn’t the only reason—and that’s great news for a steady state economy.
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We have to make some serious decisions in the next four years. Do we desire a progressively better world for our children — one with less hunger, less war, less poverty, more food, more fun, more community? Or do we desire a world of ease, frivolity, speed and excess that we’ll have to pay an [...]
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