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The Bulletin: February 11-17, 2026
The Bulletin: February 11-17, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Requiem For An Oil Glut | Art Berman Our Leaders Couldn’t Fix Our Problems If They Wanted To (And They Don’t Want To) Life Before Petroleum – by Ugo Bardi – Chimeras […]
#221. Strategies for a post-growth economy
#221. Strategies for a post-growth economy PART ONE: BUSINESS IN A NEW ERA Under current conditions, it’s increasingly hard to understand why the inevitability of economic contraction remains so very much a minority point of view. Many of us have long understood why past growth in material prosperity has gone into reverse. Here, with the SEEDS […]
Beyond the Growth Imperative
Beyond the Growth Imperative For 30 years, environmental economist Tim Jackson has been at the fore of international debates on sustainability. Over a decade since his hugely influential Prosperity Without Growth, the world is both much changed – reeling from a pandemic and with unprecedented prominence for environmental issues – and maddeningly the same, still locked […]
You don’t have to live like this—review of Kate Soper’s Post-Growth Living
You don’t have to live like this—review of Kate Soper’s Post-Growth Living In her new book, Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism, Kate Soper calls for a vision of the good life not reliant on endless economic growth and points us to the ways in which our current patterns of living are not only environmentally […]
The Politics of Post-Growth
THE POLITICS OF POST-GROWTH The Post-Growth 2018 conference at the European Parliament marked a milestone in the history of the post-growth debate, which has predominately been contained within academic circles. In the first part of a two-part interview, Riccardo Mastini discusses the possibilities and challenges for imagining a world beyond growth with two key post-growth […]
From “Green Growth” to Post-Growth
From “Green Growth” to Post-Growth (Photo: Pixabay) The seduction of economic growth is all-pervasive. Even within progressive circles that claim to understand that growth is causing ecological destruction, there is hope in a new type of salvation: “green growth.” This is the idea that technology will become more efficient and allow us to grow the […]
Earth Overshoot Day and Not-For-Profit Enterprise
Earth Overshoot Day and Not-For-Profit Enterprise In 2015, 13 August is Earth Overshoot Day. The day marks the estimated calendar date when humanity’s demand on the planet’s ecological services (which produce renewable resources and assimilate wastes) outstrips what the Earth can supply. This means that for the rest of the year, we are taking more than […]
Are We Hard-Wired to Think We Can Grow Forever? « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Are We Hard-Wired to Think We Can Grow Forever? « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. Humanity is an irrational lot, prone to denial and short-termism. If rational arguments were primary catalysts for social change, perhaps a steady state economy would already be a reality. Research in behavioural economics and cognitive psychology […]
