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 [...]
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Molly Scott Cato explains PFI
Posted in banking and finance, Economics, Economy, Political, Politics, tagged PFI on October 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
George Morran looks at the politics of localisation
Posted in Economy, Localisation, Political, Politics on September 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The old order is no longer sustainable and yet our leaders still pursue the same economic model, hoping to attract investment from the likes of China and India The full text of a letter in the Birmingham Post this week written by Localise West Midlands Associate and Vice Chair, George Morran can be read here. One of [...]
TEQS PROGRESS
Posted in Economics, Economy, Energy, Environment, Good news, Transition on August 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Encouraging news was sent by Shaun at the end of July. A draft which was to be posted earlier was deleted, unsaved, by accident, but the news is not timebound. He opens: “The only place to start this update is with the International Energy Agency’s announcement that global energy-related emissions were higher than ever before in [...]
News from Helena Norberg-Hodge
Posted in Agriculture, Economy, Localisation, Manufacturing on July 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Announcing the Localize! Bike Tour The Economics of Happiness Goes on the Road This August ISEC’s Becky White, activist and musician, and James Miller, an experienced bicycle tourist, will pedal several hundreds of miles and visit a dozen towns in Sonoma and Marin Counties. Their message They will be screening the Economics of Happiness [...]
Molly Scott Cato & the Green House
Posted in Economics, Economy, Think tank, tagged Green House on July 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Molly – one of the green-minded academics and politicians mentioned below – writes: By now our politicians should have been making plans to shift our central economic objective from growth to sustainability. The book, and the report for the Sustainable Development Commission on which it was based, provided the evidence: where is the policy that [...]
Colin Hines: advice for activists and lateral-thinking politicians
Posted in Devolution, Economics, Economy, Localisation, Political, Politics, Security, Transition on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We welcome Colin Hines back after his three-month absence and reproduce his first message seen in the Guardian recently and published on the website of Localise West Midlands which he co-founded with Pat Conaty. Colin wrote: Rebuild and rediversify sustainable local economies everywhere Huge regions such as Europe, the US, China and India should reconsider their obsession with today’s [...]
