If you missed him at the MOA, come and meet this remarkable changemaker, artist, and activist, #RENAMEBC and mingle with your peeps! CANSEE members get 30% off! (E-mail: kkish@cansee.ca for the code) Making Change through Business, Art and Politics: Lawrence Paul Luxweluptun at SKWACHÀYS Lodge presented by the Board of Change WHERE: SKWACHÀYS Lodge Aboriginal Hotel …
Devised in collaboration with the Foundation for European Economic Development (FEED), we are proud to announce that the Mark Blaug Student Essay Prize is open for submissions! “Rather than applying economics to a particular problem, eligible essays must reflect critically on the state of economics itself, as Mark Blaug did in many of his works. …
Mark Blaug Student Essay Prize 2016 – Submissions have opened! Read More »
By Stephen Quilley and Katie Kish Our programme of research starts from two premises – that there are biophysical limits to growth and that growth is intrinsic to capitalist development. This tension between ecology and economics, between the integrity of the biophysical life support systems of the biosphere and modern civilization, suggests a series of …
Navigating the Anthropocene: Towards an Alternative Modernity for an Era of Limits Read More »
By Katie Kish, Stephen Quilley and Jason Hawreliak This article describes a Metcalf-funded research project investigating Maker culture as the basis for a relocalized, community-based green economy. (Green Prosperity and the (Re)Maker Society: Integrating the low growth economy with community self-development, artisanal skills and enhanced cultural participation (Metcalf Foundation, $38,000) – Stephen Quilley (PI), Jason …
Green Prosperity: From the Global Consumer Society to the Networked reMaker Society Read More »
By Tom Green (Note: An earlier version of this piece appeared in the CANSEE Newsletter in 2013). We associate truth with convenience – with what most closely accords with self-interest and personal wellbeing or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life. – John Kenneth Galbraith Almost three decades have passed since …
Canadians enjoy freedom of expression, equal protection from discrimination and the right to life, liberty and security under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They do not, however, have the right to drink clean water, breathe clean air or simply live on clean land. The right to a healthy environment is explicitly recognized as a …
Ecological economists have long argued that the pursuit of never-ending economic growth is a dead-end strategy. One of the most basic insights of the discipline is that the economy is a subsystem of the environment. All of the inputs to the economy come from the environment, and all of the wastes produced by it return …
It’s Time for a New Economics of Sustainability by Dan O’Neill Read More »