The European Parliament has had a great week, writes Molly Scott Cato MEP - for those who oppose GMOs in food and farming. MEPs voted on five occasions to say no to GMOs, and gave their support to agroecology as the only sustainable way to feed the world.
… Molly is formerly Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at the University of …
Capitalism isn't working. We need a Universal Basic Income as we come out of the coronavirus lockdown into the economic - and the climate - crisis.
… it is in achieving equality as well as sustainability. Industries We agree with the … created through QE must come with climate and sustainability conditions. This would ensure …
This budget season, and so a short perambulation around the vexed question of the national debt seems in order. As a nation we've been living with debt for more the 300 years now, since 1694 to be precise, when Scottish privateer William Paterson persuaded the government of the time that creating £1.2 million of IOUs would get them out of their spending difficulties.
Life and debt Molly Scott Cato | 23rd April 2009 Comment Debt Capitalism Borrowing Green Economics Waste UK Economics Justice Economics Environment Free Trade Politics And Economics PIGGIE-Main.jpg …
Claims that we need a 'big society' to fix our 'broken' one are just Victorian throwbacks - we have the business tools to survive; we just need a co-operative attitude to go with them
… would save money and also provide a model of sustainability for the rest of the banking …
Animals bred for meat now consume a third of all vegetable crops. This has increased dramatically since a ban on pigswill following the Foot and Mouth outbreak in the UK. But it is an appalling waste. Japan can show the way to feeding pigs our waste food which is safe, argues the Green MEP MOLLY SCOTT CATO
The politics of pigswill - or how we can help feed the world by feeding waste to pigs Molly Scott Cato | 8th March 2018 Comment Pigswill Food And Farming Food Waste pigs-662001_960_720.jpg Animals …
Molly would glady have been tied to the stake with the other Metric Martyrs... but, being that she wasn't, she's keen to point out why weights and measures matter to all
… to transform cultures from consumerism to sustainability COMMENT No-one put Keats on a …
Tim Jackson's latest book Post Growth: Life After Capitalism is 'written almost as much in poetry as in prose'.
Life after capitalism Molly Scott Cato | 22nd June 2021 | Comment Economics Capitalism Hannah Arendt Tim Jackson's latest book Post Growth: Life After Capitalism is 'written almost as much in poetry …
An obsession with celebrity is costing us more than our free time - it has led to a culture in which individual endeavour is the only form of success
Competition is corroding our communities and self-esteem Molly Scott Cato | 16th February 2010 Comment Society Politics And Economics Work Co-ops molly.jpg An obsession with celebrity is costing us …
The French have a much better word for it: 'decroissance'. Using ugly and frightening terms like 'degrowth' won't help pave the way for a new and exciting economics
We scare people off by talking about 'degrowth' Molly Scott Cato | 14th July 2010 Comment Politics And Economics Growth Recession Degrowth Decroissance molly.jpg The French have a much better word …
The only revolution, if we leave Europe, would be an uprising against a raft of EU environmental and social legislation, under the guise of ‘reducing red tape'. This would leave workers, our important nature habitats and the health of our citizens in far worse shape than is currently the case within the EU warns Green MEP Molly Scott Cato
… Molly is formerly Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at the University of …