This looks like a great post-growth conference coming up in February next year. Alternatives to Economic Growth is organised by the Cambridge Green Party, with the New Economics Foundation, Green Economics Institute and the Transition movement. It’s Saturday 18th of Feb, and there’s more information here. See you there? An underlying question to much of [...]
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Feeding the five thousand
Two years ago anti-waste campaigners fed 5,000 people in London from food that was otherwise going to be thrown away. On friday they’re repeating the stunt – and you’re invited. If you can get down to Trafalgar Square on Friday, 18th of November, between 12 and 2:00, lunch will be served. Better make that 12:00, [...]
Today is ecological overshoot day
Today is Earth Overshoot Day, the day on which this year’s resources are used up and we start going into our ecological overdraft again. It’s more of a symbolic day than a scientific one – it’s impossible to put an exact date to it, but it’s an annual reminder that our current levels of consumption [...]
Sharing is common cents
I didn’t get to take part in Free Money Day, (I’ve been in a hamlet in west Wales for the last week, population 3) but it looks like it started some great conversations. Over 60 different events in 17 different countries, and lots of buzz, even if it turns out that getting strangers to accept [...]
The Climate Reality Project
The Climate Reality Project is planning ’24 hours of reality’ on the 14th of September, aiming to set the record straight on climate change. See what you make of this: # I’m generally in favour of anything that sets the record straight on climate change, but I’ve got to say, I don’t hold out much [...]
Happy 25th Birthday New Economics Foundation
Congratulations to the New Economics Foundation, which is 25 this week. Nef is a ‘think and do tank’ with an ambitious aim: “to transform the economic system – to create a new economics that maximises well being and social justice within the limits of the planet.” Nef was founded in 1986 out of ‘the other [...]
The Idler Academy opens today
The Idler Academy is now open, Londoner’s may be pleased to hear. Aiming to recreate the “spirit of cultivated leisure” of the 18th Century coffeehouse, the academy will be serving coffee and cakes, selling books, and hosting talks and events. Visitors will be able to take courses in Latin, ukelele, embroidery, and growing food. Gavin [...]
Ten facts about cold homes
It’s snowing in Britain this week, earlier than usual. Snow hasn’t fallen this deep in November since the 60s. As long as the travel conditions don’t deter people, it’s a good week to be holding an event on how to make your home warmer. If you’re in Luton tonight, drop by Get Cosy on Hart [...]
Get Cosy
Get Cosy is an event that is happening on my street next week. It’s been one of my projects for the autumn, working with the partners, doing the promotion, and this week walking the neighbourhood with the resident’s association delivering flyers through all the doors. The idea is quite simple – it’s to encourage people [...]
Schumacher College offers new MA in Economics for Transition
I often wonder if I should pursue an MA at some point and actually study some economics properly. I never get very far, mainly because it costs a fortune and partly because I haven’t seen a course that really catches my eye. (Human Ecology at Strathclyde being an exception) However, after making some enquiries recently [...]
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