Awakening to a new economics
Catherine Masterman considers the plastic habits of children’s craft. As a mum of two girls, my house has been bombarded over the years by single use plastic in the name … Continue reading Are we normalising plastic pollution in the name of children’s creativity?
There’s a time for everything, the writer of Ecclesiastes insisted. A season for every activity. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to build and … Continue reading The impossibility of stopping
To some people it might seem a little odd that Green Christian has project on sustainable economics. We certainly get asked about it from time to time – on both … Continue reading What can the church bring to economics?
Tim Cooper, Emeritus Professor of Sustainable Design and Consumption at Nottingham Trent University, discussed sustainable fashion in this talk for Green Christian. Fashion is an industry with stark ethical questions … Continue reading Talk: Faith in fashion
Inequality is at the heart of the Joy in Enough campaign, and the opening session of our Plenty! programme is all about it. We argue that entrenched inequality is something … Continue reading How much inequality should we accept?
The price of energy has been much discussed in recent months, and it’s been a tough winter for a lot of people. Many households have experienced fuel poverty for the … Continue reading The possibilities of energy democracy
At the beginning of this year, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak set out five top priorities for the UK. He listed them as follows: It’s striking how abstract those are, certainly … Continue reading The politics of joy
Not many politicians or world leaders are prepared to talk about the failures of economics. Safer to stay well within the orthodoxy and reassure the markets. One of the exceptions … Continue reading Michael Higgins, the postgrowth president
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