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The End of Growth
Check out the new Post Growth Institute’s website - this is what I’ve spent the last month working on, and why the silence here! The Post Carbon Institute has put together a great little video based on...
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Steady State Revolution Is On Hiatus
I’d love to say that I have tons of time to write and maintain this blog right now, but it’s far from the truth. So, much to my personal chagrin, I’ve put Steady State Revolution on Hiatus for the time...
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Free Money Day: Sharing Is Common Cents - Stunt Offers A New Perspective & An...
Sharing Is Common Cents It’s one of the most basic relationships most of us interact with on a daily basis: money. Just like anything else, if you love something set it free (or even if you don’t love...
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Paul Gilding’s The Great Disruption at Seattle Town Hall
I was finally able to get this video uploaded from Pirate TV onto vimeo (couldn’t get it to work on youtube). Anyway, I know it’s been a while, but I was really impressed with Paul’s talk (and him as a...
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Tim Jackson on the Economics of Climate Change
I’ve said numerous times before how much I love Tim Jackson’s work. His book is easily the best growth dilema work to date. And the report the book is based upon is equally as good, just quicker to...
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Epistle to the Ecotopians by Ernest Callenbach - Last Words to an America in...
This document was found on the computer of Ecotopia author Ernest Callenbach (1929-2012) after his death. It was originally published on TomDispatch and I read it on Climate Progress. I found these...
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Climate Change v. Global Warming v. AGW
Q: Why was it called global warming for so long, if the weather everywhere isn’t actually warming? Why aren’t they using that term as much anymore? A: It was called global warming because the average...
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Steady State Economy: An Overview
The Steady State Economy requires a shift in our focus as a culture, but what policies are actually developed and what are the fundamentals of this new paradigm? There are three main parts to a steady...
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Natural vs Man-Made Capital
As we continue to fuel our all-important economic growth we begin to realize more and more that it has done all the good it can for us. In fact, it has started to become uneconomic growth; a growth...
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Development vs Growth
In a steady-state economy the focus is on development versus growth. As Herman Daly puts it, growth refers to “physical scale of the matter/energy throughput that sustains the economic activities of...
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Sustainable Scale
Size Does Matter Sustainability is quite the buzzword nowadays. What is sustainability anyway? It would appear at face value to have a simple, easily understood meaning. On the contrary, almost...
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Uneconomic Growth
“That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far-reaching ruin” – John Ruskin Herman Daly is often given credit for pioneering the term “Uneconomic Growth.” It is a key...
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Local Currency and Bartering
Onion River Exchange: Community Time Bank When times get tough and cash becomes strapped, many turn to bartering – trading services and goods without the pesky dollar getting in the way. Not only does...
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Work and Leisure in a Steady State Economy
I'd Rather Be Here Than At Work Leisure is the thing we so often aspire to gain more of in the US. The irony is apparent in that we have the smallest amount of leisure time in the world. Workers in the...
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