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The Sustainability Challenge: Ecological and Economic Development
Imagine picking up a newspaper and reading that the country’s largest petroleum company has petitioned the government to increase the gasoline tax at the…
Not All Recessions Are Created Equal
Last month, the National Bureau of Economic Research confirmed what most businesses have known for some time—the United States economy is in a recession. But…
A Global System Growing Itself to Death—and What We Can Do About It
The underlying purpose of today’s global economy, most assume, is to transform natural resources into a continuously growing quantity of goods and services for…
A Systems View of the Economic Crisis
One of many recent articles on the current financial crisis noted that it could only have occurred because so many people were willing to…
An Economy Designed to Sustain the Environment
You have probably heard of Lester Brown’s work before whether you know it or not. For the past 30 years, when an environmentalist or…
A Systemic Approach to the Challenges of Our Times
No one can say that renowned physicist Fritjof Capra shies away from a challenge. In his latest book, The Hidden Connections: Integrating the Biological,…