Slideshows and Teaching Resources
Most CASSE slideshows contain a common core of slides on the fundamental conflict between economic growth and environmental protection, with a focus on biodiversity conservation.  Feel free to download CASSE slideshows (by clicking on the cover slides below) and use them in the classroom, town hall, or state house.  Additional teaching resources are also provided below.  If you would like us to customize a slideshow or help develop some teaching resources, please contact us.
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Changing the Paradigm:  The Transition from Uneconomic Growth to Sustainability.  CASSE's featured slideshow.  Scripted for ease of presentation.  To read the script, view the notes pages in Powerpoint.


The Fundamental Conflict Between Economic Growth and Wildlife Conservation, Including Considerations of Technological Progress.  Another scripted slideshow with many basic arguments for the limits to growth, especially with regard to conservation of wildlife and ecosystems.


Symposium on Economic Growth and Biodiversity Conservation.  Six presentations from CASSE staff and colleagues from the 2008 annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology.


Nascent History of Steady State Politics.  Review of efforts to raise awareness of the steady state economy -- the alternative to unsustainable economic growth.  From the Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity (held in Paris April 18-19, 2008).


Economic Degrowth Toward an Optimal Steady State.  Examination of how to achieve a steady state economy after a period of degrowth.  Also from the Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity (held in Paris April 18-19, 2008).


Economic Growth, Economic Development, and Environmental Protection: A Crucial Role for Biologists in Technical and Rhetorical Clarification.  From keynote address at Colorado Chapter of The Wildlife Society, 2004.


The Steady State Economy: What It Is, Entails, and Connotes.  A primer on the steady state economy from paper of the same name.


Steady State Revolution:  The Basics.  This one will generate needed controversy in the classroom (and elsewhere).  Presents the theory, based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, that the castigation of the liquidating class will lead to a lower per capita consumption.


Earth Day 2003:  Corruption of Economics vs. the Steady State Revolution.  CASSE’s most historically informative slideshow.  Start’s with the thesis that modern economic growth theory is tainted by land baron politics in the early stages of American economics. 


Earth Day 2004:  Women at the Wheel of the Steady State Revolution.  Describes the prominent role available to women in leading society to a steady state economy. 


Humvees and Horses: The Role of International Diplomacy in Establishing an American Steady State Economy.  CASSE’s Earth Day 2005 presentation.  Ideal for International Affairs programs.
Ecological Economics Teaching Resources

Most courses in ecological economics will include material on the steady state economy.  Instructors are welcome to peruse the syllabus of the ecological economics course at Virginia Tech's Northern Center.  This course has a steady state focus.  In 2003 Herman Daly and Joshua Farley published their outstanding textbook Ecological Economics, which CASSE highly recommends for college and university economics courses.  Additional ecological economics syllabi are available at the International Society for Ecological Economics website on Teaching.
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