Economics
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Loss Adjustment
When people say we should adapt to climate change, do they have any idea what that means? To understand what…
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Charmian Gooch: End Anonymous Companies (TED video)
Anonymous companies protect corrupt individuals — from notorious drug cartel leaders to nefarious arms dealers — behind a shroud of…
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10 Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society
The best way to feel hopeful for the future is to prepare for it. The best way to feel hopeful…
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All Give and No Take
Do those negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership have any interest in democracy? Here’s a test. Nothing threatens democracy…
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The Benefits Claimants the Government Loves
Corrupt, irrational, destructive, counter-productive: this scarcely begins to describe our farming policy. Soil erosion in a maize field. Photo: Defra…
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European Patent Office Blunder Leads to Grant of a New Patent on Conventional Breeding
Patent granted on watermelons. 20 February 2014 Munich. The company, H.M. Clause, which belongs to the French co-operative group, Limagrain…
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Holmgren’s ‘Crash on Demand’: Be Careful What You Wish For
Originally published on TransitionNetwork.org It is a rare occurence that I disagree with David Holmgren. One of my heroes, and…
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Muddying the Waters
How the government’s farming policies have produced a perfectly designed system for flooding your home. It has the force of…
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A Shorter Working Week is Possible
Click for full view Marcin Gerwin: It was predicted in the 1930 by the economist John Maynard Keynes that thanks…
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Recharting Collapseniks
Only a few are willing to risk arrest for the sake of an utopian outcome. Ted ‘The Unabomber’ Kaczynski obviously…
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Charting Collapseniks
Rather than spurning financial system terrorists, Holmgren urges activists to become “terra-ists”; to directly bring down the system by thousands…
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As Sea Ice Shrinks, Arctic Shipping Options Expand
by Janet Larsen and Emily E. Adams, Earth Policy Institute Photo: Rosatomflot On October 7, 2013, the Nordic Orion bulk…
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