A Stick in the Stocking: Santa’s Supply Shock
A drop in fuel prices may seem great now, but what happens after the party is over?
These are the CASSE blog articles on sustainability.
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!
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.
Do U.S. Election Financing Laws Force Politicians to Ignore Limits to Growth?
/1 Comment/in Environment, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechBrent Blackwelder explains the connection between campaign financing laws and a steady state economy.
The New Economy versus Today’s Flat Earthers
/1 Comment/in Economic Growth, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechMainstream 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.
Building a Local Movement: Transition Winnipeg Embraces the Steady State Economy
/3 Comments/in Economic Policy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWhen individual action is too little, and national policy reform will be too late, community-based movement may be just right.
Giant Mats of Green Slime in Lake Erie Signal a Need for New Economic Approaches to Pollution
/1 Comment/in Environment, Food and Agriculture, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWhat do we do when water supplies are cut off to a city of 400,000 people?
Cold War Leftovers
/13 Comments/in Banking, Corporate Reform, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Governance, Monetary Policy, Politics, Population, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechDaly challenges the assertion that a steady-state economy is inherently capitalistic and must be instead be based on a socialist system.
Iraq and the Military-Industrial Complex versus a True Cost Economy
/5 Comments/in Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechA switch to solar and other renewables will greatly reduce the resources devoted to waging war and help us achieve a steady state economy.
Gross Domestic Problem: Don’t Shoot the Measurement
/8 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Environment, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechGDP growth is creating more problems than it solves–which is exactly why we need to keep calculating and monitoring it.