More at http://www.newdream.org Produced by the Center for a New American Dream This fun animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer economy. Narrated by economist and [...]
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“TreeSisters is about women co-creating a campaign that results in measurable change both at the level of behaviour, and around the valuing of women and the feminine principle on this planet.” TreeSisters is a new women’s movement to accelerate global reforestation and the shift to sustainable living TreeSisters is a campaign that aims: — to [...]
Full Story »The Tragedy of the Commons – Ian Angus
The Myth of the Tragedy of the Commons by Ian Angus Will shared resources always be misused and overused? Is community ownership of land, forests, and fisheries a guaranteed road to ecological disaster? Is privatization the only way to protect the environment and end Third World poverty? Most economists and development planners will answer “yes” [...]
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