Gaian Economics

All other green campaigns become futile without tackling the economic system and its ideological defenders. Economics is only dismal because there are not enough of us making it our own. Read on and become empowered!

27 June 2008

Designing Nature's Way

What would it mean to design products and processes the way Nature does? This is a question posed by the industrial ecology movement. Accord...

25 June 2008

Post-Colonial Sour Grapes

I can't believe I'm the only person who is sick to the back teeth with the wall-to-wall coverage of the non-election in Zimbabwe. No...

17 June 2008

Refuge from the Global Economy

Yesterday I was listening to Victor Jara's beautiful songs, which made the tedium of an unavoidable car journey a pleasure. For those wh...

16 June 2008

Low Carbon High Life

To compete with phrases such as 'the lean economy', downsizing, voluntary simplicity and so on, a friend in the Transition Stroud gr...

13 June 2008

A Common Treasurer

I am the Green Party's economics speaker. In some of my wilder moments I imagine this might put me in some position to be the Treasurer ...

10 June 2008

Gambling while others starve

Whatever explanation you've heard for why food prices are rising it probably isn't the real one. Now that the housing market is stag...

2 June 2008

Take me to a Free University

I was talking to a colleague recently about my disappointments at work and the struggle for academic freedom. She responded with a joke. A h...

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Molly: I am economics speaker for the green party although blogs represent my personal views. I have a PhD in economics and work in co-operative research as well as trying to build up bioregional economies

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