Over the course of history, human welfare has transformed from an economy of gifts to an economy of commodities. In his new book, Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein explores how we can realign towards the humanity-based economy.
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Over the course of history, human welfare has transformed from an economy of gifts to an economy of commodities. In his new book, Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein explores how we can realign towards the humanity-based economy.
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Well, it seems now that besides the obvious challenges it takes to live off-the-grid, some government agencies are not having any of it. The Mason family, who chose to live self-sustainably on a neglected UK orchard, recently lost an appeal against the Mid Devon District Council's denial of their right to live on and work the land.
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The U.S. Department of Defense consumes 360,000 barrels of oil each day. Yet corporate Amerika wants you to conserve, no doubt to save the last drops for the military (to be used to secure more oil). We’re being fleeced, folks, and the fleecing continues unabated at all levels. Read more ...
The meteoric rise of degrowth (décroissance in French) as a concept has coincided over the last three years with the reappearance of economic crisis and stagnation on a scale not seen since the 1930s. The degrowth concept therefore forces us to confront the questions: Is degrowth feasible in a capitalist grow-or-die society—and if not, what does this say about the transition to a new society?Read more ...
Sustainability is a profoundly ambiguous term. Depending on the context in which it is used, it is a word that can mean an almost incalculable variety of things, running the gamut of interpretation. At best the idea of sustainability should suggest that we live on a planet composed of finite resources, where there are thermodynamic constraints on the growth of any material or energetic system.
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“The longer and harder we promote civilization, the worse will be the collapse — more people and other animals will die horrible deaths. So, we need to bring down civilization, now.”Read more ...
"The ongoing financial meltdown demonstrates how difficult it is to disturb the thick undergrowth of utopian premises which determine our acts. As Alain Badiou succinctly put it:
Read more ...'The ordinary citizen must "understand" that it is impossible to make up the shortfall in social security, but that it is imperative to stuff untold billions into the banks' financial hole? We must somberly accept that no one imagines any longer that it's possible to nationalize a factory hounded by competition, a factory employing thousands of workers, but that it is obvious to do so for a bank made penniless by speculation?'
