WE-Africa is an alliance of likeminded scholars and practitioners who share a common concern about the current socio-economic conditions in which we live and are willing to work together to promote a transition to a wellbeing-based economy for Africa. It is an action-research network, which aims to consolidate evidence for change while focusing on building […]
Category: Regenerative Economy
VIDEO: wellbeing and GDP, according to Lorenzo Fioramonti
The presentation was given by Lorenzo Fioramonti on 2 March 2016, in Totnes, UK.
How does permaculture stack up in the real economy?
“One thing I have discovered since I got out of my box of geochemistry in the year 2000 and began learning about sustainability issues, is that the Earth can be viewed as shrinking.” Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir discusses a new framework for sustainability:
The Knife’s Edge of Cheater Capitalism
by L. Hunter Lovins The Problems The global economy rests on a knife-edge. It is based on unsustainable assumptions and business practices that are driving societies and ecosystems into successive collapses. There are many palliative “fixes” that can prop the system up – but only for a time. What is needed is a new development […]