Happy Earth Day! Today is about bringing awareness to others about the negative impacts humans have on our environment. This is the very same environment that gives us air to breath, water to drink and food to eat. This environment sustains human life and, therefore, is just as valuable as human life because of it. A [...]
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I can’t help but think that it is an oddly ironic slogan to appear in an economic crisis. Is the Quaker Oatmeal guy trying to give us some socioeconomic encouragement? Is he trying to tell us to “get back into the game” and buy/consume more? We all could use a cheerleader from time to time, [...]
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In a steady-state economy the focus is on development versus growth. As Herman Daly puts it, growth refers to “physical scale of the matter/energy throughput that sustains the economic activities of production and consumption of commodities.” In other words, growth is the increasing of production and consumption of goods and services. This is a quantitative [...]
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The Steady State Economy requires a shift in our focus as a culture, but what policies are actually developed and what are the fundamentals of this new paradigm? There are three main parts to a steady state economy: sustainable scale, fair distribution, and efficient allocation. The following are the definitions given by the Center for [...]
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