economy – Sublime

Hedgerows & Climate Change

Mandy Lieu — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:55:58 +0000

Increasing hedgerow cover across the UK can create new homes for wildlife, improve the quality of the soil, boost the UK economy, and help in the global fight against climate change

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The Caring Economy

John Wood — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Although the coronavirus brought agony to many, some of us have seen dancing in the streets, heard singing on balconies, or know people who have benefited from new food banks. The Lockdown has taught us that birdsong and the right to breathe clean air are beyond price. Although not all politicians and journalists may be...

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Kick The Can

Laura Santamaria — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:30:48 +0000

How do you summarize 300 sessions over four and half days? The sessions are picked by hundreds of experts and the staffed with the brightest minds in their fields. The issues are all relevant and important. At the end of last full day I was nearing the end of a panel discussion on Climate Leadership…...

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Money is Dead

John Wood — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:53:40 +0000

Numerical Flatland Many blame capitalism for the extinctions that are hastening climate breakdown. But political discussions can easily reduce ecological complexities to a few human-centred dimensions. We have had several hundred years since the French began to align everyone along the narrow axis of ‘left’ and ‘right’. More recently, algorithms became trendy, so mainstream economists...

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Stupid Economics

Katrine Carstens — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 09:31:30 +0000

It was the early 1980s, and the mud in the slum of a rural town in Peru was ankle-deep. Berkeley-educated German-Chilean economist Manfred Max-Neef stood, soaked, across from a local man in the pouring rain. He found that his expensive education had provided him with no language capable of describing the experience of that moment...

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