At its core sustainability revolves around renewability. It can only be found in something that is renewable each year. For the human enterprise, sustainability requires us to use only renewable resources and energy, but not just use them, use them within their limits. The world’s forests, for instance, can regenerate over the course of a [...]
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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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Oil is gushing from the Gulf. Could leaving it in the ground lead to an economy that actually fits the planet?
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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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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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