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Bigger cuts for Manchester – in its annual greenhouse gas emissions

Bigger cuts for Manchester – in its annual greenhouse gas emissions Manchester now needs to make bigger cuts to its annual greenhouse gas emissions: A commentary on Manchester Climate Change Agency’s Annual Report A brief Annual Report for 2020 has been issued by Manchester Climate Change Agency. It is not a long report so we encourage you to read […]

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What Kind of a Green Deal? The implications of material and monetary flows.

What Kind of a Green Deal? The implications of material and monetary flows. What Kind of a Green Deal? The implications of material and monetary flows1. Contents Introduction: the resurgence of New Green Deals.  Green Deals, Growth and Material Flows  Paying for a Green Deal: monetary flows.  Introduction: the resurgence of New Green Deals. With increasing […]

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An economy that does not grow?

An economy that does not grow? There is now plenty of evidence that economic growth is highly problematic for human welfare and survival. The evidence comes from three domains. 1) The ecological: continual growth uses up the resources that supply and the sinks that take the waste from human activity globally. 2) The social: economic […]

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The Viable Economy – and Viable Finance

The Viable Economy – and Viable Finance via openclipart.org It is all too clear that our economy is precarious, economically, socially and ecologically. Steady State Manchester promotes the Viable Economy1, which means greater resilience, localisation, and balance as economic activity is treated not an end in itself, but rather as a means to deliver a […]

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We need to end growth dependency, but how?

We need to end growth dependency, but how? Introduction: escaping growth-dependency It has long been understood that the standard economic prescription of economic “growth”, to fix multiple economic, social and environmental ills, is highly implausible3. This stems from the elementary observation that you cannot expand the material throughput of the economy (the materials and energy it […]

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What happened when Degrowth was discussed in the Catalan Parliament?

What happened when Degrowth was discussed in the Catalan Parliament? The “estelada decrecentista”, or the Catalan flag with the degrowth symbol instead of the usual star, from “Casdeiro” – click for original context. Introduction from SSM. We recently carried a translation of an interview with Sergi Saladié who introduced a debate on degrowth into the Catalan […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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