Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
We follow Herman from the lecture halls of Louisiana to the forests of Brazil – and through a period of global upheaval and personal transformation. It’s the late 1960s: war, civil rights, and the first whispers of ecological collapse are reshaping the world.
Ecologists, this is a call to emerge from your niche occasionally, enough to acknowledge the root cause of the issues you study. You don’t need to start a new movement. There’s an existing movement of academics and activists establishing the need for degrowth to a steady state economy and raising awareness of this need.
These communities are not just surviving, they are innovating within their means. But without structural support, resilience has its limits.
How is freedom, a polysemantic term, understood by the majority today? What is the relationship between modern freedom and the perpetual growth system? And what kind of freedom would post-growth have to put forward?
Our bodies respond to heat by adapting if we let them. But with the widespread use of air conditioning, few people are obliged to adapt. That actually makes them more susceptible to heat-related illnesses.
From trading posts to tech empires, corporations continue to grow in strength. Without reform, their power may soon eclipse public control entirely.
The war economy relies on the enclosure of the commons. By reclaiming the commons, we can build a world based on cooperation, ecological stewardship, and social justice.
In today’s episode, Nate is joined once more by Lyn Alden for a deeper exploration of the intricate relationships between fiscal dominance, rising levels of debt, and the role of energy in shaping our current financial realities.
With cities across the world on the frontlines of escalating wildfires, floods, and political instability, driven by a global economy still hooked on fossil fuels, GDP growth, and failed neoliberal dogma, Daly’s work provides the moral and intellectual grounds for a new economic direction that is rooted in sustainability, justice, and ecological balance.
I think that GDP as a measure has many flaws. I still believe, however, that the GDP as a measure of economic activity has some relevance and as I am exploring the link between the economy, the human ecology and the resource throughput, I find it interesting to get a grip on it.
Therefore, one can’t separate the question for how an ecological food system can look like from a purely ecological perspective from the socio-economic aspects of it….I think the starting point is that those involved in the management of ecosystems should, largely, be in charge and control the resources. Decentralized management will lead to more diversity, innovation and evolution.
For a long time, I wasn’t quite sure if I should go to the CoFi #3 conference in Austria. But collaborative finance fascinates me, even if my knowledge of it is a bit fuzzy, and there were going to be speakers whose work I admired. Curious to learn more, I therefore travelled almost at the last minute to the venue in the Austrian Alps.
