When Growth Trumps Freedom: the Chill in Canada Comes from our Government, not the Weather
Some politicians will go quite far to cling to an aging growth-at-all-costs narrative.
These are the CASSE blog articles on the environment.
Potential New Allies in the Effort to Achieve a Sustainable True Cost Economy
/4 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Population, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechDr. Blackwelder discusses how those in faith-based communities can become powerful allies for those of us seeking an economy that meets peoples’ needs without undermining the life support systems of the planet.
Who Moved Obama’s Win-Win Cheese?
/10 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czechby Brian Czech
Whether or not you like President Obama or his policy preferences, you have to acknowledge his consistency. Even those with “zero regard” for the president confess, “At least Obama is consistent.”
But not consistently. There is one issue, at least, on which he hasn’t held still, moving in and out like an octopus in a sunken ship. That issue is the relationship between economic growth and environmental protection.
A Population Perspective on the Steady State Economy
/9 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Energy, Environment, Governance, Population, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechThe population problem should be considered from the point of view of all populations–populations of both humans and their things–if we are going to achieve a steady state economy.
Crossroads on Global Infrastructure
/6 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechA momentous choice is before us. Will we choose more mega-highway projects, centralized electric power plants, and mega-dams, or more decentralized wind and solar investments?
A Stick in the Stocking: Santa’s Supply Shock
/5 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Environment, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechA drop in fuel prices may seem great now, but what happens after the party is over?
The Role of Cities in Moving Toward a Sustainable Economy
/1 Comment/in Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWhat can one person do to affect positive changes for Planet Earth? Look to the city level for inspiring answers!
Hedonism, Survivalism, and the Burden of Knowledge
/6 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWhat do we do with the knowledge that we may be headed for climate catastrophe?
Animal Welfare: Seeing the Forest for the Denizens
/5 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHas economic growth become the inconvenient truth for animal welfare?
Use and Abuse of the “Natural Capital” Concept
/7 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Policy, Environment, Monetary Policy, Money and Investments, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly explains how we can use prices now as tools for rationing a fixed predetermined flow of resources, rather than determining the volume of resources taken from nature, or the physical scale of the economic subsystem.