Measure for measure, GDP is the world’s hidden accounting scandal, the one that neither governments nor media will touch. Jonathan Rowe asks why we worship such a false idol
… research that turned beliefs about the economy upside down. Health improves, he said, as the economy shrinks. And as the economy declines, deaths, smoking, obesity, …
The financial cost of the diseases of modern civilization is almost double the budget of the National Health Service, writes Jules Pretty, while the economy has grown past the point of greatest satisfaction. Our over-riding priority should be to move to greener, healthier, more sustainable and satisfying ways of life.
… Pretty | 21st February 2015 Comment Green Economy Health Society family-cycling-cut.jpg … Service, writes Jules Pretty, while the economy has grown past the point of greatest … improve, policies that promote a greener economy should be pursued. Redefining what we …
An anti-environment plot by Junckers' Commission would abandon agreed 'green' laws for clean air, waste reduction and recycling. But the leak of key documents to EurActiv has stimulated fierce opposition by Green MEPs and environment groups, while eleven EU countries have called on Junckers to hold to the green laws and speed up their implementation.
… plans to scrap its flagship Circular Economy package and anti-air pollution rules … meeting the previous day. The Circular Economy package is designed to increase … BusinessEurope wanted the Circular Economy package to be withdrawn and re-tabled …
G20 must fund ‘massive global health plan’ to tackle coronavirus crisis.
… Coronavirus Covid-19 Health Public Health G20 Economy … reforms have created a deeply unequal global economy which needs to be ‘reset’ in the light … healthcare, building a fossil fuel-free economy and sharing out the phenomenal wealth …
A report by the NEF details what a reformed welfare state would look like.
… system that is less dependent on the market economy, and instead more reliant on the … the resources of the core ‘non-financial’ economy, and no longer relying on continuing … by the Foundation involves growing the ‘core economy’, described as the time, wisdom, …
Pollution caused by burning fossil fuels are already causing the premature deaths of 200,000 people a year - in the US alone, writes Pete Dolack. Add up the figures worldwide and it comes to many millions. And that's before we even count the catastrophic long term impacts of global warming. The US response: to loosen anti-pollution regulation and encourage increased oil, coal and gas production.
… Deadly toll of fossil fuel pollution: the old economy versus planet and people Pete Dolack … Given the gigantic size of the United States economy and the pollution thrown into the … even naturalistic, methods for modeling the economy. "However, past all of the equations …
Two critical markets are pursuing a stressed planet’s renewable resources, presenting policymakers with complex and difficult choices. The Worldwatch Institute’s latest look at Earth’s “vital signs” sees dangerous times ahead as the “sustainability crisis” unfolds. China Dialogue's Maryann Bird investigates
… on the renewable resources that nourish the economy. This collision between two of the … of the powerful forces that connect the human economy to Earth’s ecological systems.” Among …
Orthodox economic measures like Gross Domestic product fail to measure the things that matter most, write Judith Schleicher & Bhaskar Vira: like human wellbeing and ecological health. This creates a systematic bias in 'development' policies that must urgently be addressed if we are to build an inclusive, equitable and sustainable society
… | 15th March 2017 Comment Economics Green Economy Natural World Society Health … seen as a useful snapshot of the state of the economy and people's well-being. What these … nature, that are not measured in the monetary economy, but are an important part of daily …
We need a renewable energy revolution, an end to fracking, no new nuclear power, efficient homes, and the break up of our energy cartels, writes Jeremy Corbyn, All that, and strong protection for wildlife and oceans, no TTIP trade deal with the US, clean air to breathe, and massive investment in public transport. Is there anything not to like?
… our environment and instead democratise our economy to reduce inequality and promote … fuels A modern, green, resource-efficient economy - creating 1 million new climate jobs … take the lead in developing the clean energy economy of the future. Over the next few …
The NHS is one of our greatest institutions and we must defend it to the hilt, writes Natalie Bennett. But to build the healthy society we all want and deserve, we need joined up policies across the policy spectrum, valuing human wellbeing above crude economic growth.
… Comment Health Politics UK Transport Green Economy Pollution Cities … here in Britain, in the world's sixth-richest economy, a society that's making many of its … we also need the right policies on the economy, transport, housing, energy, …
VW's pollution cheating has caused thousands of premature deaths, write Mike Berners-Lee & Chris Goodall, creating costs that could destroy the company's entire shareholder equity. But this is no 'Black Swan' event. It is an early example of the existential threat to the fossil fuel economy.
… of the existential threat to the fossil fuel economy. VWs diesel cars emit a much larger … businesses like VW linked to the fossil fuel economy. Her justification was that the risk … oil and even gas. The death of the carbon economy is not a Black Swan event. It is an …
It's a global phenomenon - we are consuming more calories, and more of those calories are the same, writes David Nally. Just ten crops produce 75% of our food, as factory-farmed meat, sugar, wheat, corn, soybeans and palm oil displace more nutritious and diverse diets. It's not good for us, or the planet - but it's great for corporate food monopolists!
… this is true." Reading about the global food economy today one is reminded of this quip. On … with an intensive, industrialised food economy. Global spikes in prices for staple …
The UK's official agency for car pollution testing has taken £80 million from the auto industry in ten years, a Greenpeace investigation reveals, while its senior staff and engineers have a 'revolving door' relationship with car makers.
… grow so it could "contribute to the wider UK economy" . The news was greeted by transport … to grow and contribute to the wider UK economy." A Department for Transport …
A 1971 editorial from the ecologist founding editor Edward Goldsmith on how our society is becoming ever more addicted to gimmicks intended to ensure our survival in ever less favourable conditions
… redundant and, in accordance with the law of economy, they cease to be operative. … addictions makes it imperative that the economy be maintained on a course of continued …
The UK government's insistence of pursuing fracking is based on a flawed and utterly misinformed vision of our future, write Alex Russell and Peter Strachan. Rather than delivering the prosperity they promise, large scale fracking would cause massive pollution of air and water, undermine vital export industries, and leave us with an irretrievably damaged economy and natural environment.
… and leave us with an irretrievably damaged economy and natural environment. There are … of gas supply and further be good for the economy and environment. Does anyone really …
With most of our food exports going to the EU, and most of our food imports coming from the EU, Molly Scott Cato wondered what plans the government had for the sector after Brexit. The answer? None! Two reports published today map out a positive future of sustainable farming, local food, thriving rural economies and abundant biodiversity. But is the government on the same page?
Brexit and the future of farming: threat or opportunity? Molly Scott Cato MEP | 21st February 2017 Comment Farming Biodiversity Economics Politics Brexit Health UK EU radical-roots-cut.jpg With most …
With the UK's Digital Economy Bill set to be finalised today, new 5G microwave spectra are about to be released across the planet without adequate safety testing, writes Lynne Wycherley. Global neglect of the Precautionary Principle is opening the way to corporate profit but placing humans and ecosystems at risk, and delaying a paradigm shift towards safer connectivity.
… Radiation wifi-cut.jpg With the UK's Digital Economy Bill set to be finalised today, new 5G … may need some protection. The UK's Digital Economy Bill , about to receive its final …
Bats serve as a natural reservoir for the Ebola - but we cannot blame them for the epidemic. In Ghana alone people eat over 100,000 fruit bats a year as 'bushmeat', yet the country has escaped the epidemic. Much more research is needed to discover the mechanisms of transmission, and to devise effective, appropriate interventions.
Ebola: don't blame the bats! Alexandra Kamins Marcus Rowcliffe Olivier Restif | 23rd October 2014 News Health Ghana Africa Ecology fruit-bat-ghana-cut.jpg Bats serve as a natural reservoir for the …
Thirty years after Chernobyl former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev remains haunted by the world's greatest ever industrial catastrophe, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. Now 85 and a committed environmentalist, he's still campaigning to bring the failed nuclear experiment to an end before further disasters follow, and encouraging a clean, efficient and renewable global energy economy.
… clean, efficient and renewable global energy economy. "From the moment I was informed - by …
China's growing 'bling' culture has taken off big time, writes Thembi Mutch - yet it is widely reviled among ordinary people who in the face of China's industrial boom hold resolutely to traditional values of economy and frugality, quietly yearning for the old days of clean air and safe, wholesome food to fill their stomachs.
… boom hold resolutely to traditional values of economy and frugality, quietly yearning for …
With Brexit the UK will have to chose between two visions of our farming future, writes Keith Tyrell. Will it be heavily subsidised corporate agribusiness that ravages both nature and small, high quality farmers. Or will we seize the chance to build a sustainable food and farming system that supports wildlife, landscape, family farms, organic production and diverse rural economies?
… with the best option for the UK: its people, economy and environment. PAN UK stands ready …
As Slow Food Week gets underway Slow Food UK tells the Ecologist why they are attempting to protect Britains edible Biodiversity and the artisan producers behind it.....
Eat it or Lose it: promoting and preserving real British food Cat Gazzoli | 31st May 2013 Ethical Living Health Food And Farming sfuk-ff (1).jpg As Slow Food Week gets underway Slow Food UK tells the …
Another strain of MRSA is emerging from the factory farms of Northern Europe, and it is linked to the insatiable demand for cheap meat on our plates. The Ecologist Film Unit investigates
… worth in excess of €2 billion to the rural economy. According to the latest report from …