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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How does capitalism condition the ways in which we measure, imagine and weaponise time – and what does this mean for our future?
It’s Davos time again. Our overlords are arriving at the Alpine resort for the World Economic Forum (WEF). But the ski slopes all [...]
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James Richard O’Connor (Apr 20, 1930 – Nov 12, 2017)
The passing of James O’Connor marks a significant moment in the history of Marxist scholarship and politics. Born in 1930 and growing up in Boston, a short stint in the merchant marine introduced him to a world beyond the oppressive [...]
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Monday 6 – Wednesday 8 November 2017 Holme Building | University of Sydney
Organised by the Sydney Environment Institute
Call for papers
In 1997, the University of Melbourne hosted a major international conference on ‘Environmental Justice: Global [...]
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