Economics
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A Legal Duty to Maximise Greenhouse Gases
Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is an astonishing and hitherto-unnoticed contradiction. Sometimes there’s nothing to do but sit there and…
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Towering Imbroglio
Is the government preparing to dispose of our forests and other public land? Planning laws inhibit prosperity. That’s what we’re…
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Vandana Shiva Keynote Speech – Food Otherwise Conference (Netherlands, February 2014)
World famous author and activist Vandana Shiva gave an inspiring speech at the Food Otherwise conference in Wageningen, Netherlands, on…
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The Promise of the Commons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFnNy0WkWbE Regular readers may remember an article I posted back in 2010 — Kings, Conquerors, Capitalism and Resilience Lost —…
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Ripping Apart the Fabric of the Nation
In an extraordinary coup, farmers’ unions and the UK government have torpedoed the European Soil Framework Directive. “British soils are…
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A Gathering of Silverbacks: Age of Limits 2014
Whenever such large shifts in temperature occurred in Earth’s history, they were not gradual but came in lurches. Resilience is…
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Let’s Talk About Collapse
I’m a reasonably even tempered sort of a bloke, but recently I’ve been feeling a bit, well, shall we say,…
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Building the New Commons
Humanity’s strength is in groups. In fact, It is our way of cooperating and communicating together in small and large…
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The Impossibility of Growth
Why collapse and salvation are hard to distinguish from each other. Let us imagine that in 3030BC the total possessions…
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How a Commons Way of Life Helps Curb Climate Change
It offers an appealing alternative to more stuff and more money, which drives environmental destruction today. It’s easy to not…
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Are We Bothered?
The more we consume, the less we care about the living planet. That didn’t take long. The public interest in…
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Democracy and Diversity Can Mend Broken Food Systems – Final Diagnosis from UN Right to Food Expert
GENEVA – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, today called for the world’s…
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