Building a Local Movement: Transition Winnipeg Embraces the Steady State Economy
When 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?
Transformative Common Sense in Vermont
/2 Comments/in Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechVermont moves to the forefront of a quiet revolution to integrate GPI into social and economic policy.
The Overlooked Anniversary: Forty Years Ago Congress and the President Called for a Steady State Economy
/6 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHow should we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the ESA and the 100 year anniversary of the death of the last passenger pigeon?
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.
Piketty Acknowledges a Limit to Inequality–Will He Acknowledge the Limits to Growth?
/6 Comments/in Economic Growth, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWe are going to need more than a wealth tax to fix our economy.
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.
News on Blue Planet Prize
/0 Comments/in Environment, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly, Daniel Janzen, and the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad are this year’s winners of the Blue Planet Prize. Congratulations!
Fresh Water, Growth, Degrowth, and the Steady State Economy
/3 Comments/in Environment, Food and Agriculture, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian Czechby Geoffrey Matthews
In Our Common Future, the 1987 report of the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development, sustainable development is described as a process of change which meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs and aspirations. To achieve this objective, the report suggests a series of goals that should underlie national and international action on development.