Today’s special guest post comes from Professor Peter G. Brown of the McGill University School of Environment, co-author of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy and author of two previous books. * * * HOW THE ESTABLISHMENT PROTECTS ITSELF, OR THINKS IT DOES WHILE THE EARTH DECLINES. 1. DROWNING IN OUR WORRIES. One of [...]
Archive for the ‘Moral Economy’ Category
18 Dec
Read all about it
Interviews! Today we’ve got a great interview with Peter Brown from The Lionel Show, which, as usual, WordPress will not let me embed directly. But fear not; just click here and it ought to either play or download, depending on how paranoid your media player settings are. Also there’s a print interview at Investor’s Business [...]
26 Nov
Moral analysis
Here’s a great article about our project from Resurgence Magazine by Jack Santa Barbara, the Director of the Sustainable Scale Project and Associate of the Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University. The neoclassical economic paradigm that has been so successful at providing material goods is clearly identified as the main culprit in both the [...]
3 Nov
News Flash: Everything Sucks
Well, not really (kinda?), but here are some interviews where Peter Brown talks about how bad things are and what we’ve got to do. “Our next guest calls North America a region of vast overconsumption and wastefulness, and Peter Brown is out to change that.” Let’s talk about cap and trade! Also, seeing as how [...]
6 Oct
The media juggernaut continues
Wow, we are on a roll here! Check out Geoff’s new interview, where he talks about the new G20 announcement.
24 Sep
New interview!
Peter Brown was interviewed yesterday on the second hour of The Marc Steiner Show (a radio program in Baltimore), and the podcast of the program is now available. “We think that there is huge evidence that our economic system is in wrong relationship with the planet, and we are dismembering the life support systems of [...]
3 Sep
Symposium videos, part one!
That’s right – the videos from the May 15-16 Montreal symposium are now ready to go! Here’s the first bunch – bear with me here, this is going to be a bit of a long post. More videos to follow shortly! Stuart Myiow gives the “words that come before all else”: Geoff Garver introduces the [...]
2 Sep
Charity in truth
Today I’m pointing you folks to an excellent summary of Pope Benedict’s Encyclical Charity in Truth (Caritas In Veritate), by John Hart, a Professor of Christian Ethics at Boston University. While we find parts of the encyclical problematic, there’s no question that this is an important document which agrees in many particulars with our own [...]
31 Aug
Videos – at last!
Okay, I have finally learned how to post Vimeo videos to this blog – huzzah! The following two videos are from our May symposium in Montreal. The first is Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair at the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment. The second is Laurie Michaelis of the Living Witness Project. Laurie is [...]
26 Aug
The Right Relationship Roadshow
New (well, comparatively new) on Geoff’s Eco-blog is a great behind-the-scenes discussion of doing presentations on the issues in Right Relationship, and how that’s been working out over the summer. It’s an interesting read – even I found it interesting and I’d heard most of it already. Head over there and check it out! The [...]
