Phoebe Spencer, UVM September was a busy month for the E4A project. Students and professors gathered for the first time at a weekend-long retreat, where our tangible excitement for new research had everyone ready for the start of our exciting new project. As the retreat ended, I boarded […]
By Matt Burke. Much of our work within the E4A project draws from an important insight that we should not conflate human well-being with increasing economic activity. In a recent blog post, research economist Warwick Smith challenges us to question both the possibility and desirability of unending economic […]
By Geoff Garver. On September, 18, 2014, Paul Krugman used his New York Times column to call out critics of endless growth on a finite planet, in particular the Post Carbon Institute and those in the degrowth movement. His main mission was to praise the The New Climate […]
By Jen Gobby. Last weekend I left my familiar habitat of the libraries and classrooms of McGill University and I boarded the Greyhound to New York City. There I participated in the largest Climate March in history. I and some 400, 000 other people walked together to express […]
