Every year we are inundated with a mountain of content advising us on how to have a low impact or psychologically healthy Christmas, complete with the latest juicy and disturbing figures from our laughably inefficient economy. Caught in a matrix of overbearing social obligations, financial and employment pressures, and the imminent collapse of our life support systems, the proliferation of these articles is a welcome sign.
By Haydn Washington
The True Meaning of Ecological Economics
Ecological economics has a problem: Pluralism is out of control, to the extent that “ecological economics” is starting to mean different methods, approaches, and values to different people. We need to know precisely what we mean by “ecological economics,” and to settle upon an ethical framework thereof.
The original thinkers in ecological economics, such as Herman Daly, were clear that ecological economics was an economics that operated within ecological limits.
Eric Zencey searches for deeper causes in the midst of grief and dismay over the most recent American shooting tragedy.
Eric Zencey reports encouraging news from the United Nations, but he knows a sustainable economic system won’t arise without concerted effort.
With his vision of Utopia, perhaps Sir Thomas More should have changed his last name to Enough.
Tom Butler defends land preservation as a critical strategy for dealing with the downsides of economic growth.
Rethinking consumption and consumer spending may be the key to enjoying the holidays.