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Bring Back Hank Paulson — On One Condition 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
by Brian Czech On and on the ironies go; where they stop, nobody knows. Biggest one last week for sho: The Fed a-meetin’ in Jackson Hole! That’s right. The entity as responsible as any other in t...
The Fracking of “The Limits to Growth” 20 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
by Herman Daly One tends to read the obituary column more attentively as one gets older. That is probably what led me to notice the death of George P. Mitchell, age 94 — that plus the fact that he wa...
Getting to the Root of the Problem 12 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
by Rob Dietz Farmland LP is a business born from the “uh-oh moment.” The uh-oh moment arrives when you comprehend just how unsustainable modern society has become. Although it can occur as an epiphan...
Fixing Food and Farming with a True-Cost Economy 6 Aug 2013 | 12:31 pm
by Brent Blackwelder Pending farm legislation in Congress could eliminate food stamps ($80 billion worth of support per year) for families in need, while increasing subsidies for very large farm oper...
Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation 2 Aug 2013 | 09:49 am
by Samuel Alexander When industrial civilisation collapsed in the third decade of the 21st century, a community living on a small island in the South Pacific Ocean found itself permanently isolated f...
A Post-Growth Economy in France? 30 Jul 2013 | 07:37 pm
by Dan O’Neill I’ve recently returned from France’s first high-level “beyond growth” event, entitled An Innovative Society for the 21st Century. The conference, which included five separate sessions ...
Bill Clinton’s Legacy: The Inconvenient Irony 23 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
by Brian Czech They say the ironies never cease, and last week the EPA headquarters were named the “William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building.” But irony and legacy are not always good bedfellows. B...
Full Employment Versus Jobless Growth 16 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
by Herman Daly The Full Employment Act of 1946 declared full employment to be a major goal of U.S. policy. Economic growth was then seen as the means to attain the end of full employment. Today that ...
Too Many Jobs 9 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
by Max Kummerow Without doubt unemployment blights people’s lives. Those who want to work need jobs. But an even more fundamental economic problem is too many people beavering away, wrecking our home...
Water Wars on the Way in Absence of a Steady State 2 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
by Brent Blackwelder The past century’s foolish management of water would not have happened in a steady state economy. But today’s globalized, growth-obsessed economy allows, and even subsidizes, con...
