Recently I was asked my opinion on what role companies can play in moving towards a future of more ‘sustainable consumption’. The term ‘sustainable consumption’…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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Unbridled growth appears to be at odds with social well-being and environmental sustainability. How might we develop a model that reduces the imperative for growth,…
In a recent piece, I wrote about ‘Global Transition: From growth to de-growth and top-down to bottom-up‘ I explained the process in which top-down organisations are…
We have a problem. There are currently two fundamentally different understandings of the word “degrowth”. Jason Hickel’s view is that “Degrowth is a planned reduction of…
This post first appeared at the Orcop.com blog. Those of us who are committed to the idea that economic degrowth is unavoidable just cannot understand…
I have been reading a lovely book by Helena Norberg Hodge about her life in Ladakh, the ancient enclave of Tibetan Buddhism on the Himalayan…
For perfectly understandable reasons, public and media reactions to the surge in energy prices have concentrated almost exclusively on rises in the cost of domestic…
Very little that’s helpful is happening yet, but that’s because (a) the nature of the situation isn’t yet understood, and (b) it’s in human nature…
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. E. F. Schumacher What if there will be no economic growth in future? …