Experiences of land restoration projects related to the Water and Food Award are the subject of a chapter in the upcoming book on Land Restoration, with contributions by Stephen Hinton.
Case studies of finalists illustrate how developing an intimate knowledge of the land, rethinking agricultural practices, redefining the role of schools, finding new ways to cooperate, new roles for corporations, new attitudes to grazing animals, rain and water, contribute to restoring land and food security.
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This article is exploratory in nature, investigating the potential for creating a new academic and managerial discipline, one of planetary stewardship. Comments are invited below.
The complexity of the task of dealing with the downsides of the industrial revolution is expanding rapidly. Reaching near-limits to growth in population, food production and water use, we are seeing planetary boundaries overstepped by this pressure exerted by our societal system. Major planetary cycles are in disruption: the hydrological cycle, the nitrogen and phosphorus are possibly the most important. Continue reading “Calling for a new discipline: planetary stewardship”
A look back at what has been happening during the first half of the year in EFR: the economic system’s downsides are revealing themselves as environmental pressures rise. The case for environmental fiscal reform has never been stronger.
Excellent, sharp analysis from Economist Michael Roberts on inequality and the solutions being looked at by Stiglitz, Atkinson, OECD and others. Well worth a read, reblogged here from Michael’s blog.
Apparently Hilary Clinton, the Democratic dynasty front- runner for the US presidency in 2016 is worried about rising inequality of income and wealth in America. She has recently consulted Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize winner in economics, and author of now two books on the issue of inequality.
However, don’t get your hopes up too high that a US president might take action on the extremes of wealth and poverty in America. Among the top ten contributors to her campaign are JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, CitiGroup and Morgan Stanley. As secretary of state under Obama, she pressured governments to change policies and sign deals that would benefit US corporations like General Electric, Exxon Mobil, Microsoft, and Boeing. Clinton served on WaltMarts board of directors from 1986 to 1992 and the law firm she worked for, Rose Law Firm, represented the corporation. During her three trips to India as secretary of state…
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Title: Environmental Fiscal Reform: practical ways for market based instruments to address the obstacles preventing the circular economyStephen Hinton is a member of the board of the Swedish Sustainable Economy Foundation and specialises in aligning environmental concerns with fiscal systems. He has been involved in several projects, including with the Nordic Council of Ministers, to explore the possibility of using market forces to drive a circular economy for nutrients. One of the Foundation’s recent initiatives is a role-play/business game that explores the assumptions behind fiscal instrument application and sustainable technology investment decisions. These simulations reveal a wealth of insight into possibilities to change economic paradigms.
Helsinki: 11th May 2015
Stephen’s presentation will focus on the fiscal approaches to overcoming barriers including:
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PLACE: Brazil
SITUATION: A large international sporting event was planned.
The investment by the host city needed to lead to a more environmental city including reduced waste and emissions, a better carbon profile and more jobs created in the circular economy.
FRAMING QUESTION: How can a sporting event make best use of the investment in the arrangements around the event to spark off the sustainable circular economy in the city and at the same time increase the number of jobs available for city residents?
SOLUTION: Create a complete biomass waste stream handling infrastructure around the event, inviting the attendees to invest by carbon compensating their journey to the event. Then use this infrastructure to spread to the other parts of the city.
Continue reading “Case study: a carbon neutral legacy for an international sporting event”
Michael Roberts analyses the global economy from a Marxist view. Roberts expects a continuing slowing down of the economy for the foreseeable future. For those of us focussed on corporate strategy and Environmental Fiscal Reform there are serious conclusions to be drawn about how to move to sustainability in a shrinking economy.
Readers of this blog will know that from its very beginning over five years ago, I have argued, ad nauseam, that after the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009, the world capitalist economy entered what I have called a long depression, see
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/why-is-there-a-long-depression/.
What I meant by this was that the trajectory of the world real GDP growth and investment took what I described as a square-root shape. A relatively high trend growth rate was interrupted by a sharp drop, then a sharpish recovery before growth resumed but this time at a much lower level than before.
Schematically, it would look like this – and in reality.
This view, that capitalism is in a Long Depression, will be the main message of my upcoming book to be published (I hope) this summer.
However, there are many voices who do not agree that world capitalism is in a downward…
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In this short video, Richard Heinberg explores why The Great Burning — the combustion of oil, coal, and natural gas — must come to an end during the next few decades. If the twentieth century was all about increasing our burn rate year after blazing year, the dominant trend of twenty-first century will be a gradual flame-out.
Richard urges us – at corporate, government and local level – to accept the situation and start to plan to slow down, localise and accept that we must give up some things.
How shall we manage the last days of the great burning? What role can Environmental Fiscal Reform play?
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No-one lays it on the line better about how economy and energy are linked than Gail.
What is the real story of energy and the economy? We hear two predominant energy stories. One is the story economists tell: The economy can grow forever; energy shortages will have no impact on the economy. We can simply substitute other forms of energy, or do without.
Another version of the energy and the economy story is the view of many who believe in the “Peak Oil” theory. According to this view, oil supply can decrease with only a minor impact on the economy. The economy will continue along as before, except with higher prices. These higher prices encourage the production of alternatives, such wind and solar. At this point, it is not just peak oilers who endorse this view, but many others as well.
In my view, the real story of energy and the economy is much less favorable than either of these views. It is a story of…
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