Feasta – Page 33 – The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability

The two faces of January: looking back, while thinking about the new

"Enough and the related actions of coping, critiquing and creating are about embracing possibility, which is different from prediction," writes Anne Ryan in the sixth instalment of her blog, Enough is Plenty.

Reclaiming Capital

Patrick Noble makes a case for capitalism - assuming that 'capital' is taken to mean 'spiritual, pleasurable and human assets, combined with that which maintains all those things'.

Towards Zero Waste by Feidhlim Harty: review

Caroline Whyte finds this book by Feidhlim Harty to be very accessible and full of useful information.

Towards more strategically differentiated money /credit creation and reuse

The current system for introducing money into the economy has adverse effects, both social and environmental. Graham Barnes argues for a better strategic framework for the first use of money, and a clearer explanatory narrative to facilitate consent.

Islands in the Flood

Patrick Noble argues that we should make the best of the remaining time we have before collapse occurs "to build islands of a real economy which can emerge more or less intact from beneath the smoke and embers."

The Economics of Arrival: Review

In the fifth part of her Enough is Plenty blog series, Anne Ryan suggests that the "clarity and verve" of this book's writing could give it an audience "beyond the marginalised community of those who currently promote sufficiency and related systems".

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