Tag: degrowth

An E4A student’s reaction to Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to think like a 21st Century Economist (by Jen Gobby)

I am a PhD student in the Economics for the Anthropocene partnership and have spent much of the last 3 years in research seeking out and grappling with ways to bring the social and ecological crises we face into one lens. We are living with the legacy of […]

Does Prime Minister Trudeau Understand the Climate Crisis? An Open Letter from E4A

E4A sent a letter to the Prime Minister regarding climate change leadership; but we have yet to receive a response. We post it below and here.         To: The Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau, P.C., M.P., Prime Minister of Canada Cc: Hon. Catherine McKenna, Minister of […]

Envisioning a sustainable world – Donella Meadows (by Lindsay Barbieri)

Prelude: Envisioning a Sustainable World. As we move into the political realities of 2017, I have been thinking long and hard about this powerful talk – Envisioning a Sustainable World – that Donella Meadows gave during the International Society for Ecological Economics meeting in 1994. What I find […]

What will spark a degrowth movement in the USA? Thinking smaller in a country where everything is big (by Sam Bliss)

Things are big in the United States of America. Returning home after a year away reacquaints me with big detached single-family homes, big single-occupant vehicles, and big single-species grass lawns. I find wider roads, longer distances, larger supermarkets, and more stuff everywhere. As a student of ecological economics, […]