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We’re glad you dropped by! The Steady Stater is CASSE’s podcast, established August 3, 2020, and hosted by CASSE’s own Brian Czech. It is the only podcast in the world dedicated to advancing the steady state economy.
Joe Biden wants to restore the “soul of America.” It’s a noble goal befitting an elderly statesman combining Uncle Joe charm with Uncle Sam chops. And, it’s badly needed after four years of soulless, sickening corruption of the White House. It’s also a huge opportunity, not only for restoring but for reforming that soul.
Reform is needed because the soul of America was hardly spotless to begin with,
To be or not to be
for lowering GDP.
Deciding is the fee
for degrowthers to be free!
(Free of confusion, that is, and degrees of self-defeat.)
In the heart of the Cold War, John F. Kennedy proclaimed, “Ich bin ein Berliner.” More than halfway to a century later,
The Steady State Herald is CASSE’s blog, one of the leading outlets on limits to growth and the steady state economy as the sustainable alternative. The Herald is geared toward an educated but general readership, with a reading level and style similar to that found in non-fiction trade books. We publish one article per week, usually on Thursdays. With rare exceptions, we publish only original works. (Note the Herald banner,
Let us consider a different slant on the current discussion about the necessity versus sufficiency of renewable energy for a steady state economy at the present physical scale.
Pursuant to the pioneering economics of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (G-R), we recognize two sources of the low-entropy flow that sustains our lives: the solar and the terrestrial. They differ in their pattern of scarcity. The solar energy source is practically infinite in its stock dimension,
Dear CASSE Friends, Colleagues, and Supporters,
We hope you are safe and healthy as we move through the crises related to COVID-19 and the appalling murder of George Floyd. These tragedies remind us of the role we all must play in fostering kindness and stability at home and abroad. At CASSE, we firmly believe that kindness and stability go hand-in-hand with advancing the steady state economy.
By Brian Czech
Ever since my review of Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans, some misunderstandings have come to light about the stance of myself, and by extension CASSE, on renewable energy. One such misunderstanding—spread far and wide—is that we are “against renewables.” A clarification is definitely in order.
CASSE and steady staters at large are all for renewable energy. Of course! Along with the steady state economy as the sustainable alternative to growth,
Extremely dangerous political rhetoric has proliferated over the past several decades, seducing the masses onto a path that leads to the destruction of nature and civilization. This rhetoric is centered on the claim that “there is no conflict between growing the economy and protecting the environment!” Politicians are all about economic growth but, at the same time, none of them want to be seen as willful destroyers of the environment.
When individual action is too little, and national policy reform will be too late, community-based movement may be just right.
