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Introducing the Sustainable Transportation Act

May 29, 2025/5 Comments/in Economic Policy, Fossil Fuels, Governance, Steady State Economy, Steady State Herald, Sustainability, Wellbeing /by Alix Underwood

by David Shreve

While transportation is vital to American prosperity, the transportation sector is the largest direct contributor of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions among all economic sectors. Even though passenger-car efficiency has steadily increased in recent years, the sector’s contribution to environmental degradation has continued to rise. Since 1995, U.S. transportation sector emissions have risen by almost 20 percent.

We cannot ignore the principal problems in the U.S.

War of the Words: Rebranding the “Healthy Economy”

June 16, 2022/14 Comments/in Consumption, Degrowth, Economic Growth, Energy, Food and Agriculture, Postgrowth, Steady State Economy, Steady State Herald, Sustainability /by Brian Czech

by Mark Cramer

Industries strive incessantly to increase human productivity, often by way of mechanizing or automating tasks. After all, there are limits to purely human energy, strength, and ability. Without more workers, we require technological innovation to overcome these limitations. Fortunately for the pro-growth industries, technology doesn’t earn wages.

Even outside of the workplace, technology takes the place of utilitarian exercise. Long ago, most people hunted and gathered their own food.

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