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“carrying capacity”

Deep enough for a Deep Economy?

A review of Bill McKibben’s book, Deep Economy.

Thomas Friedman asks the Vital Question

In his New York Times OpEd of Sunday 7 March, THOMAS FRIEDMAN writes: Let’s … ask a radical but vital question: What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? What if it’s telling us that the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years is simply [...]

Earth Overshoot Day 2008

On September 23rd this year we mark an unfortunate milestone: As of today, humanity will have consumed all the new resources the planet will produce this year, according to Global Footprint Network calculations. For the rest of 2008, we will be in the ecological equivalent of deficit spending, drawing down our resource stocks – in [...]