Tag: Ecological Economics

Ecological economics and urban sustainability: my internship at TRCA (Natália Britto dos Santos)

Last summer, I did an internship at the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA). This internship was part of the Sustainability Network Environment and Economy Fellowship (SNEEF) Program, a partnership between the Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) at York University and the Sustainability Network. The goal of SNEEF […]

The E4A Community Comes to Life: 4 “Holy S#*t” Moments (by Geoff Garver)

I had the privilege of being part of the creation of E4A from its early stages.  In 2012, our proposal to Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) didn’t make it past the first stage.  So, we submitted another “letter of intent” in 2013.  Four “Holy S#*t” […]

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 […]

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 […]