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The SDGs: Transforming our World or Business as Usual?

The SDGs: Transforming our World or Business as Usual? Compared to their predecessors, the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a step in the right direction: With their global validity, they acknowledge that change not only needs to happen in poor countries, but in rich countries too, see for example Goals 11-15 […]

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Teaching economics for the 21st century

Teaching economics for the 21st century In the economics classroom here at Schumacher College https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/postgraduate-courses/economics-for-transition,  we are drawing on the thinking of Otto Scharmer https://www.presencing.com/ego-to-eco/3-divides(link is external), exploring the three great divides that characterise the times in which we live: separation of self from self (spiritual/cultural alienation); self from others (social divide); and self from the more-than-human […]

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Securing a Sustainable Future

Securing a Sustainable Future When Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote that “All that is solid melts into air,” they intended it as a metaphor for the disruptive transformations that the Industrial Revolution implied for established social norms. Today, their words can be taken literally: Carbon-dioxide emissions and other industrial pollutants released into the atmosphere are changing […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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