The position of an initiative on the weak/strong sustainability continuum is a debate that is rooted in economics but is now central to sustainability discourse, pertaining to both research and practice. The weaker-to-stronger sustainability debate is a spectrum between those…
Repost from The Lancet – originally published on October 20, 2021. Executive summary The Lancet Countdown is an international collaboration that independently monitors the health consequences of a changing climate. Publishing updated, new, and improved indicators each year, the Lancet…
This important research is presented at the pre-print stage: Vigier, M., Ouellet-Plamondon, C. M., Spiliotopoulou, M., Moore, J., & Rees, W. E. To What Extent is Sustainability Addressed at Urban Scale and How Aligned is it with Earth’s Carrying Capacity?….
Repost from the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy By Herman Daly. Published on April 23, 2019 The economic process is not a mechanical analog that can be run forward and backward, nor a circular process that…
Doughnut Economics can be summarised as an approach that adds the minimum acceptable social boundaries (people’s essential needs) to the maximum possible planetary boundaries (“environmental ceiling” or the Earth’s capacity to carry life). The Amsterdam City Doughnut was launched in…
David Suzuki is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. David Suzuki. Credit: Stephen Barnett from Darwin, Australia, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Repost from the David Suzuki Foundation. Published on January 5, 2021. The following is…
Repost from The Medium. By Tim Ventura. Published on Nov 20, 2019 · 4 min read Back in 1968, Stanford Professor Paul Erlich prefaced his non-fiction best-seller, The Population Bomb, by saying, “The battle to feed all of humanity is…
