Limits revisited - A review of the limits to growth report
Four and a half decades after the Club of Rome published its landmark report on Limits to Growth, the study remains critical to understandings of economic prosperity. This new review of the Limits debate has been written for the launch of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on the Limits to Growth
An Assessment of Current Regulation of GMOs in the EU
Vesco Paskalev argues that the regulation of GMOs in the EU is a shambles. The main problem lies in a very narrow conception of risk and safety. Paskalev proposes specific legal amendments to remedy these faults.
Critiquing ‘Common Cause’
The authors each reflect and comment on the Common Cause report published in 2010
Good Sharing, Bad Sharing Why we need a political regulatory framework for the Sharing Economy
Reinhard Loske's gas discusses a proposal to set up a sharing economy
Green Politics and International Development
Peter Newell's gas argues we need to include green politics into models of development that provide prosperity and respect sustainability.
Paris: Optimism, Pessimism and Realism
Brian Heatley argues that the real meaning of the Paris Climate Agreement is that it is now almost inevitable that there will be 3-4 degrees C of warming by 2100, and that we urgently need to face this and its political implications
“TREEB” stands for The Real Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity.
What are the real basic causes of biodiversity loss and ecosystem decline? This question is asked and answered surprisingly rarely, and when it is, the most frequently proposed answers just scratch the surface of what is at stake.
Post-growth localisation
This pamphlet outlines the fundamental features of economic globalisation and localisation, how a shift towards the local might be accomplished, and what it asks of us in terms of action.
'Development without Growth?'
At this IDS lunchtime seminar, Jonathan Essex, Tom Lines and Ray Cunningham outlined Green House's 'Post-Growth Project'
How do we shift from an extractive to a circular economy?
This event, funded by the Green European Foundation, brought together analysts and activists for an interactive discussion not only on some of the key debates within the green movement
Post Capitalism, A Guide to Our Future
Paul Mason’s Postcapitalism is an ambitious synthesis of a number of existing arguments that collectively aim to show that ‘capitalism is a complex, adaptive system which has reached the limits of its capacity to adapt,’ and which goes on to sketch a Postcapitalist future.
