Richard Heinberg. The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality New Society Publishers, 2011 Publisher & Coordinating Editor of Canadian Dimension Industrialized economies have grown most years since the mid-19th century. Globally, economic output per...
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Building a true green economy | by Sunita Narain
The world has to reinvent growth as it is costing it the Earth June 5, the World Environment Day, is meant to celebrate the idea of the environment and put it into practice. It is a day to take stock of where we stand and where we should be headed in future. The theme...
Leaked documents reveal UK fight to dilute EU Green Energy targets | by Fiona Harvey
Allegations of coalition hypocrisy over green issues as critics say documents show UK has caved in to fossil fuel lobbyists The government has been trying to water down key environmental regulations in Brussels despite trumpeting its commitment to green issues at...
After the failure of the Green Economy
10 Theses of a critique of the Green Economy Working Group ‘ societal relationships with nature ’ (GesNat) of the Federal Coordination of Internationalismus (Bundeskoordination Internationalismus – BUKO ) It used to be called sustainability, but today it is the ‘...
Economics: selling the truth, or telling the truth? | by Khadija Sharife
The fundamental market theory of equilibrium, in economics, can be compared to notions of justice conceived in other disciplines, such as electoral democracy and politics. After centuries of trading trials and wars, we were told by leading governments (who may be...
The One Million Climate Jobs Campaign
We are facing a global environmental crisis and a global economic crisis. We need solutions to both – now.About the One Million Climate Jobs CampaignThe Million Climate Jobs Campaign is an alliance of labour, social movements and other civil society organisations in...
What We Are For | by Richard Heinberg
Every activist engaged in combating human-caused climate change or specific elements of the current energy economy knows that the work is primarily oppositional. It could hardly be otherwise; for citizens who care about ecological integrity, a sustainable economy, and...
Capitalism Is Leading Us to Total Disaster | by Dave Holmes
The fundamental problem facing humanity today is catastrophic climate change brought on by runaway greenhouse gas emissions. The relatively narrow band of climatic conditions within which we can function has been destabilised. As average temperatures rise extreme...
The World Is Locking Itself Into An Unsustainable Energy Future | by Marianne de Nazareth
The door to 2°C is closing,but will we be “locked-in” ? The world is locking itself into an unsustainable energy future which would have far-reaching consequences, warns the International Energy Association (IEA) in its latest World Energy Outlook report released in...





