Permaculture, it might be said, is notorious on the left for its anti-political standpoint. Mollison’s Global Gardener 1991 documentary TV series shows him strolling across a misty paddock, reflecting on his realisation that political protests achieved little. Instead, he suggests, planting [...]
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Rebecca: Here, everyone recycles. Now recycling is on the same level as spanking. Orla: The environment and environmental causes were big from a young age in school. The whole Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. It is now painful to me to not recycle something. Rob: I do not like packaging waste and [...]
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“An essential political read for our times. Spelling out the brutal contradictions of the ‘imperial mode of living’ and its ‘green economy,’ Brand and Wissen invite the reader to consider a ‘solidary mode of living.’ Here, sociability and sustainability can be joined, and hopefully celebrate [...]
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In the early 1970s Jack Mundey led a union of builders labourers that took strike action and imposed bans on developments that were then worth around $5 billion. At the time, Jack and his union, the Builders Labourers Federation, were intensely vilified. Death threats were common. The BLF [...]
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The mainstream environmental economics agenda (loosely called ‘green economy’), which was formalised in the late 1980s and early 1990s, has failed to bring about, not only in economics but also in social sciences and humanities, the much-needed paradigm shift necessary to address the [...]
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Call for participants for the ANZSEE 2019
Ecological Economics: Solutions Now and in the Future conference
The 2019 Australia New Zealand Society of Ecological Economics conference will address the great challenges of our times: environmental crises and how we can live [...]
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In February of this year, congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a Green New Deal resolution into the United States Congress. The resolution outlined a 10 year plan for the decarbonisation of the American economy in the tradition of FDR’s 1930s New Deal, but rewritten for the [...]
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The question of who controls water and for what purpose makes water inherently political. Whether it’s water sources, water production such as desalination plants and waste treatment, or water services, private industry and financial markets are approaching water as the “it” commodity of [...]
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