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Arithmetic, Population & Energy | can’t recommend this video enough. It’s a presentation by Dr Al Bartlett, emeritus professor of physics at the Uni of Boulder Colorado, about the relation between economics and ecology. A must-see |
Beyond GDP | huge list of indeces to measure how well we’re doing – as an alternative to GDP, which doesn’t |
Brian Czech and Herman Daly (pdf) | the steady-state economy: what it is, what it entails and what it connotes |
Buy Nothing Day | a global holiday from consumerism – spend a day without spending! |
Center for the Advancement of the Steady-State Economy (CASSE) | probably the biggest steady-state resource on the web; they have booklists, resources, organise conferences and produce a newsletter |
E F Schumacher | Buddhist economics |
Feasta | Irish organisation promoting steady-state economics |
Genuine Progress Indicator | alternative to GDP for indicating nations’ well-being |
Grist Magazine | article on the economic heresy of Herman Daly, the world’s foremost proponent of steady-state economics |
Growth Busters | US site campaigning against constant economic growth; produced a film called Hooked on Growth |
Growth Isn’t Possible | free download from the New Economics Foundation – why rich countries need a new economic direction |
ISEE | the International Society for Ecological Economics |
Jason Hickel | excellent argument against the claim that we need growth to end poverty |
New Economics Foundation (nef) | independent think-tank challenging mainstream thinking on economic issues |
New Internationalist | Nature’s Bottom Line: article on the folly of endless growth on a finite planet |
Peak Prosperity | crash course in exponential growth |
Plos One | research paper clearly showing that ecological damage and economic growth cannot be decoupled |
Prosperity | quarterly monetary reform journal based in Scotland; lots of interesting articles on the global monetary system |
Prosperity Without Growth | Sustainable Development Commission’s report to the government – which is probably why they got closed down |
Serge Latouche | why less should be so much more: degrowth economics |
Sustainable Thoughts | interesting blog with lots of introductory information on the madness of exponential growth |