The Role of Cities in Moving Toward a Sustainable Economy
What can one person do to affect positive changes for Planet Earth? Look to the city level for inspiring answers!
These are the CASSE blog articles on sustainability.
What can one person do to affect positive changes for Planet Earth? Look to the city level for inspiring answers!
Herman 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.
Brent Blackwelder explains the connection between campaign financing laws and a steady state economy.
Mainstream economists base their recommendations on the idea that the Earth is somehow infinite–a notion equally absurd as the idea that the Earth is flat.
When individual action is too little, and national policy reform will be too late, community-based movement may be just right.
What do we do when water supplies are cut off to a city of 400,000 people?
Daly challenges the assertion that a steady-state economy is inherently capitalistic and must be instead be based on a socialist system.
A switch to solar and other renewables will greatly reduce the resources devoted to waging war and help us achieve a steady state economy.
GDP growth is creating more problems than it solves–which is exactly why we need to keep calculating and monitoring it.
Herman Daly, Daniel Janzen, and the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad are this year’s winners of the Blue Planet Prize. Congratulations!