So I’m watching the hockey game the other night (go Habs!) and a commercial comes on for the Conservative government’s “Economic Action Plan”. (They’ve decided to spend our tax money making ads telling us how wonderful they are, you see.) So the announcer’s listing off all the ways the Conservatives are helping the economy, and [...]
Archive for the ‘News’ Category
12 Mar
Virtual fossils
Click here to read the transcript of that live chat at the Guggenheim that our own Peter G. Brown was moderating last week. For those of you in Montreal, Peter will also be speaking on March 24 at Dawson College, at 11:30 am. I don’t have the room number yet; keep watching this space.
17 Feb
For art’s sake
Peter G. Brown, author of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy, is going to be serving as moderator of an upcoming forum called “Beyond Material Worth” at the Guggenheim in New York, February 22-26. This forum will include a one-hour live chat on Thursday, February 25, at 2pm EST. Be sure to check it [...]
16 Feb
Like I been sayin’…
The New Economics Foundation, a British think tank, released an interesting report the other day recommending that the work week be cut to 21 hours. “So many of us live to work, work to earn, and earn to consume, and our consumption habits are squandering the earth’s natural resources. Spending less time in paid work [...]
2 Feb
Glaciergate
Found a great article today by journalist Gwynne Dyer, Climategate and Disbelief. Y’all know how much I love recommending things for you to read, but this is a good one, and quite short. The weight of the evidence rests overwhelmingly on the side of those who argue that climate change is real and dangerous. Ninety-seven [...]
4 Jan
New Year News
So here are some interesting things from around the internet on this the first EcoMonday of the new year: Other Worlds Are Possible: the sixth report from the New Economics Foundation. If you’re looking for something to read that isn’t wholly pessimistic, this is pretty interesting stuff. Note that it’s a PDF download and pretty [...]
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 [...]
27 Nov
Committed
So, the big news yesterday: Obama announces his Copenhagen plan, committing to cut America’s CO2 emissions by 17 percent of 2005 levels by 2020. (That’s 3 percent of 1990 levels, for those who are counting.) The sad part is that this is more or less the best we could have hoped for. And I think [...]
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 [...]
19 Nov
Economics Without Ecocide
Peter G. Brown and Geoffrey Garver wrote an article for the Montreal Gazette, Economics Without Ecocide, this past week, which has gotten some great responses from the community. It’s been reprinted at CommonDreams.org and Share The World’s Resources, among others. We’ve been getting a lot of good mentions around the internet; thanks very much to [...]
