Caroline Whyte has been involved with Feasta since 2002. She studied ecological economics at Mälardalen University in Sweden, writing a masters thesis on the relationship between central banking and sustainability. She contributed to Feasta's books Fleeing Vesuvius and Sharing for Survival. Along with four other Feasta climate group members she helped to launch the CapGlobalCarbon initative at the COP-21 summit in Paris in December 2015. She is also an active member of Feasta's currency group . She is a steering group member of the Wellbeing Economy Hub for Ireland, the Environmental Pillar, and Stop Climate Chaos Ireland, and is one of three Pillar members of the Irish National Economic and Social Council (NESC). She lives in central France, from where she edits the Feasta website.
Caroline Whyte has written 57 articles so far, you can find them below.
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Caroline Whyte
Dr Sarah Browne of Trinity Business School discusses the reasons why she moved away from teaching 'mainstream' marketing, ways in which academia can help to bring about a wellbeing economy, and her impressions of the Rethinking Growth conference. Interview with Seán Ó Conláin.
David Somekh and Caroline Whyte interview futurist Bill Sharpe, author of the book 'Three Horizons: the Patterning of Hope'.
Caroline Whyte, David Somekh, Peter Doran and Kevin Murphy gave an outline of the WEAll Ireland hub's 'Cultural Creative' project, which explores ways in which artists and the arts can challenge the dominant ‘social imaginary’.
Seán Ó Conláin and Caroline Whyte exchange some initial impressions of the European Parliament's recent seminal 'Beyond Growth' conference.
Caroline Whyte speaks with Sarah McKinley of the Democracy Collaborative, who explains what Community Wealth Building and social enterprise are, and how they can help us to visualise and plan towards a more regenerative economic system.
Along with our partners in this Hub, we're working to achieve an economy in Ireland which is no longer focussed on economic growth as a goal, but rather on societal and ecological wellbeing.