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Real Economy Lab
The Real Economy Lab provides an interactive platform where the cumulative knowledge, aims, and resources of the new economy movement can be drawn together in order to seek common ground and drive coordinated action. For more details, click here.
Read MoreZero Carbon Britain
Zero Carbon Britain is the flagship research project from the Centre for Alternative Technology, showing that a modern, zero-emissions society is possible using technology available today. The research project has produced the following reports: Zero Carbon: Making it Happen (2015) (Download report here (PDF)) Who’s Getting Ready for Zero? (2015) (Download report here (PDF)) People,…
Read MoreGrowth isn’t Possible – New Economics Foundation
Four years on from New Economics Foundation‘s Growth isn’t Working, this new report goes one step further and tests that thesis in detail in the context of climate change and energy. It argues that indefinite global economic growth is unsustainable. Just as the laws of thermodynamics constrain the maximum efficiency of a heat engine, economic growth…
Read MoreWhat Is Education For? by David Orr
We are accustomed to thinking of learning as good in and of itself. But as environmental educator David Orr reminds us, our education up until now has in some ways created a monster. This essay is adapted from his commencement address to the graduating class of 1990 at Arkansas College. Read the entire essay here.
Read MoreThe Ecological Citizen – Call for papers
The Ecological Citizen is a new online journal that will strive to address the central issue of our time: how to halt and reverse our current ecocidal course and create an ecological civilization. It is peer-reviewed and free-to-access, and you can sign up for content alerts here. Call for Papers We are inviting authors to…
Read MoreCollapse by Jared Diamond
In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. For more details about the book, click here.
Read MoreInterview: Xi's understanding of Marxism a light on path toward ecological civilization — U.S. philosopher
Source: Xinhua | 2016-05-19 21:41:07 | Editor: huaxia LOS ANGELES, May 19 (Xinhua) — A noted U.S. philosopher has praised Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s remarks on updated Marxism, saying Xi’s understanding of Marxism is a light on the path toward a new global ecological civilization. Philip Clayton was commenting on Xi’s speech about the…
Read MoreClimate Conflict, Capital & Development Paradox: A case of India’s Energy & Resources Crisis
Climate Conflict, Capital & Development Paradox: A case of India’s Energy & Resources Crisis Presented by Amol Navangul In collaboration with the International Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), The Community Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), and The National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) Session Description: Climate change and security or…
Read MoreThe Gospel in the Ecological Crisis
A Training for Christian Clergy Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York 3041 Broadway New York, NY 10027 June 6-10, 2016 From the California drought to Missouri floods to changing growing seasons across America, climate change is already affecting our country and world. The deeper ecological crisis known to front-line communities for decades…
Read MoreSpotlight: Organic Marxism, China's ecological civilization drive in spotlight at int'l conference
Source: Xinhua 2016-05-01 15:07:04 CLAREMONT, the United States, April 30 (Xinhua) — Organic Marxism and China’s ecological civilization drive were the focus of a just-concluded international conference in Claremont, California. The 10th International Forum on Ecological Civilization, organized around the impetus organic Marxism gives to ecological civilization and the balance between an ecological civilization and…
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