Tag: ecology

Ethics and Cosmology for a Mutually Enhancing Human-Earth Relationship: A talk with Herman Daly on his paper Ethics in Relation to Economics, Ecology and Eschatology

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Every Fall term the cohort who is in its second year organizes three student-led seminars on each of the Orphan Disciplines: 1) Ethics and Cosmology, 2) Economics and Finance, and 3) Law and Governance.  This year the seminars are conducted by cohort 3, and those who have been assigned to the […]

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

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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 […]

Why we’re not going to Mars (by Timothy Crownshaw)

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There are many misconceptions and popular expectations of science, industry and progress which haunt our cultural consciousness. These often manifest as a relentless anticipation for new human endeavours and technologies, fulfilling a wide range of imagined needs. Each of these is supposedly arriving any day now. At present, […]