Zac Goldsmith, MP for Richmond Park and North Kingston, joined Rohan Silva (Senior Policy Adviser, 10 Downing Street), Andrew Simms (Fellow, new economics foundation) and Jeevika’s Director Andrew Redpath in a panel discussion entitled ’Is Small still Beautiful?’ chaired by Diana Schumacher. The panel discussed a range of issues including the global economic and environmental [...]
Archive for the ‘Economics’ Category
JAMES BRUGES
Posted in banking and finance, Economics, Monetary reform, tagged James Bruges on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In a December issue of The Friend, a Quaker weekly, James Bruges reviewed a new book about the nature of money He opened: “Spiralling inequality, chaos in the financial world and the Occupy protests force us to engage with economics. A Guide to the UK Monetary and Banking System is about money itself, a subject [...]
James Robertson’s new book
Posted in banking and finance, Books, Economics, Economy, Monetary reform, tagged James Robertson on January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Future Money: Breakdown or breakthrough? will be published on March 22nd, but Green Books will welcome a pre-order: ISBN: 9781900322980 In Future Money James Robertson explains in plain language and convincing detail how our money system is propelling us toward the self-destruction of our species – and what we should do about it. Our present [...]
DECEMBER NETWORK NEWS
Posted in banking and finance, Economics, Political, Simultaneous Policy, Transition, tagged Democratic Reform Movement, OccupyLSX on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Top Post for 2011 The Soil Fertility Project: James Bruges and David Friese-Greene oOOo Early this month John Bunzl was interviewed by Dr Nicholas Beecroft of the Democratic Reform Movement which sets out its reasons for initiating such a movement here. It is already ‘under way’ but will be ‘launched’ in the new year. [...]
PAT CONATY
Posted in Co-operation, Community Land Trusts, Devolution, Economics, Economy, Energy, Environment, Transition, tagged Pat Conaty on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Pat Conaty is completing a book with a Canadian colleague which will come out in June 2012 but to promote the contents they are doing short articles about different chapters. In response to news I sent of the progress of a Community Land Trust in Bristol, he wrote: “Here is one of the first articles on [...]
SHAUN, CAROLINE, COLIN, BEN & MOLLY
Posted in banking and finance, Economics, Economy, Energy, Environment, Green New deal, Monetary reform, Transition on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
* We held Shaun Chamberlin’s tour de force for a week to give top posting to the aweful news of Richard’s death. Thankfully that is not an end to our link with Feasta, the organisation which Richard co-founded. Caroline Whyte, of Feasta has agreed to keep in touch: “I’d be honoured to continue the link, although of [...]
Richard Douthwaite
Posted in banking and finance, Books, Economics, Localisation, Think tank, Transition on November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today I received the sad and most unexpected news that Richard died yesterday, after a long illness. He last wrote in June, valuing the network post on the refocussing of the work of the Feasta Climate Group, but I assumed that he was busy and thought no more of it. After reading about his thinking in [...]
Occupy UK needs to map their alternative
Posted in banking and finance, Books, Colin Hines, Economics, Economy, Localisation, Politics, Protectionism, tagged Progressive protectionism on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The greatest challenge faced by protestors seeking a better future is not eviction – but the assertion that they have mapped no alternative. Here is an outline of Colin Hines’ map. The Occupy Movement should consider ‘Progressive Protectionism’ and chants of ‘The State is Great’. The strengthening and spreading of the ‘Occupy’ movement [...]
Molly Scott Cato explains PFI
Posted in banking and finance, Economics, Economy, Political, Politics, tagged PFI on October 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A week ago Molly Scott Cato, in her Gaian Economics blog undertook this task. She writes [headlines added]: Explaining PFI The decade of corporate governance Scandals about the extortion of public money by private companies seem to arrive daily, as the decade of corporate governance begins to unravel. The political conclusion is clear: we need to [...]
SEPTEMBER NETWORK NEWS
Posted in Books, Economics, Economy, Environment, Transition on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Diana Schumacher has been involved with activities celebrating the 100th anniversary of E.F. Schumacher’s birth. Earlier this month she introduced Satish Kumar (Schumacher College) at the Temenos Centenary Lecture on Schumacher organised by the Temenos Academy, founded by the poet Kathleen Raine, Its journal is ‘devoted to the Arts of the Imagination’. In Antwerp last [...]
