Video, Audio and Slideshows
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Videos
CASSE’s YouTube channel (and our associated video gallery) provides an assortment of videos about economic growth and the steady state economy. Please visit and subscribe if you want to be notified when new videos are released. We also have collected some links to video productions from other sources:
The Impossible Hampster is a short (and funny) animation about runaway economic growth.
Ecological Economics is the subject of an episode of the program Emerging Science on Vermont Public Television.
Episode 12 of the webcast program Dr. Kiki’s Science Hour features a discussion of steady state economics with Brian Czech.
This CBS News “Fast Draw” segment discusses the purpose of the economy and includes an interview with ecological economist Robert Costanza.
The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard is an entertaining look at unsustainable consumption and production processes.
The Good Life is a parable about economic growth and happiness.
Money As Debt explains how the monetary system is rigged to require unsustainable economic growth.
The Money Fix is a feature-length documentary that explores the role of money in society and provides ideas about alternative money systems.
The Eleventh Hour is a documentary about life on Earth and the conflict between economic activities and ecological systems.
The Bridge at the Edge of the World promotes the James Speth book of the same title and highlights some of the information contained in it.
The Environment and Economy in Conflict features an interview with James Speth, the dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
The Happy Life is an animated short that exposes the unfulfilled dreams of the consumer culture.
Robert F. Kennedy’s impassioned speech tells it like it was then and is now: perpetually increasing GNP does not equate to increasing wellbeing.
Scripted Powerpoint Slideshows
Feel free to download scripted CASSE slideshows and use them for informational purposes or to deliver your own presentations in the classroom, town hall, or state house. To read the script, view the notes pages in Powerpoint.
Better Not Bigger
Makes the case for a steady state economy that strives to be better rather than bigger.
The Need for a Steady State Economy
Outlines general reasons why a steady state economy is preferable to continuing economic growth.
Changing the Paradigm: The Transition from Uneconomic Growth to Sustainability
Calls for a new economic paradigm and provides the theoretical basis and empirical evidence in support of it.
GDP and Quality of Life: Measuring What We Care About
Critiques GDP as a measure of progress, reviews alternative measures and initiatives to supplement GDP, describes barriers to overhauling national accounts, and outlines a path forward.
The Fundamental Conflict Between Economic Growth and Wildlife Conservation, Including Considerations of Technological Progress Gives basic arguments for the limits to growth, especially with regard to conservation of wildlife and ecosystems.
Audio/Radio Programs
In this segment on Good Dirt Radio, Rob Dietz defines a steady state economy, and describes the basic rules of sustainability for an economy.
Marketplace radio produced an engaging series called Consumed in 2007. Collectively, the programs in the series ask the question, “Is our consumer society sustainable?”
This BBC World radio segment asks the question, “Is Growth Good?” Ecological economists, Herman Daly and Robert Costanza, provide their take on this question. You can also hear the misinterpretation of the landmark book, Limits to Growth, by an economist from the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Earth and Sky Radio interviews Mathis Wackernagel about the ecological footprint and overshoot.
