Ecology, Economics, and Ethics: Resources Build

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  2. Gather from OneNote, Mindmap, Bookmarks, Google Searches.

Triple Bottom Line

Gather and sort from Bookmarks.

  1. Start with Triple Bottom Line for The Business of Sustainability.
  2. WBCSD site is seminal. See Accountants will save the world.
  3. Beyond corporate case for sustainability article

Sustainability Sites ^

  1. The Club of Rome has pursued the theme of limits to growth for forty years. The latest entries in this series is 2052 by Jorgen Randers and Money and Sustainability by Bernard Lietaer.
  2. Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainability and Solidarity by Luis Guiterriz holds a great array of sites and themes.
  3. Ibrahim Fawzi asks in Capitalism vs. Planet Earth: The Irreconcilable Conflict: Can capitalism co-exist with sustainability?
  4. The Dictionary of Sustainable Management offers a dictionary of supportive concepts for sustainability and business.
  5. The Stockholm Resilience Center offers a thoughtful approach to sustainability.
  6. Hans Rosling gives a dazzling Ted Talk that lays out the dimensions of global crisis with an emphasis on public health. The video is famous for its graphic display of data.

Defining Sustainability and Economics ^

  1. Herman Daly tells us about an economy for a full earth. Another approach to ecological economics is presented for kids but worth a look.
  2. The New Economics Foundation provides an important online book, The Great Transition, that defines a path to a sustainable future.
  3. The venerable Club of Rome has continued its legacy interest around the theme of Limits to Growth.
  4. The Center for the Study of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) provides leadership in re-defining economic growth. See their Briefing Papers.
  5. The Beijer Institute of ecological economics
  6. The Land Institute, founded by Wes Jackson, covers sustainable agriculture. Its home is Salina, Kansas.
  7. The Post Carbon Institute coves limits to growth. The Low Carbon Economy takes a more technical approach.
  8. The Dictionary of sustainable Management offers a dictionary of supportive concepts for sustainability and business.
  9. Examine the recent sustainability coverage at the Bloomberg news web site.
  10. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development is a pioneer. their Vision 2050 report and summary resulted from a dialog of over 200 global companies in over 20 nations and carries commitments of support from Alcoa, Syngenta, and PriceWaterhouse, among others. The Vision 2050 report envisions how to get to a high level of human development as defined by the U.N. while remaining within the shrinking biocapacity of the Earth. The report carries a stern warning but also a commitment from large corporations.

Green Economy

  1. UNEP provides a Green Economy site and asks: What Does It Take to Build a Green Economy?
  2. Supply chains are critical in building the Green Economy. Kevin Lyons explains supply chains.
  3. A criticism of the Green Economy comes from the perspecive of the Global South.
  4. Some evidence suggests that the Green Economy is growing faster than the Brown Economy, as in California.

Video Library

  1. The venerable Club of Rome has continued its legacy interest around the video Limits to Growth.
  2. Build from YouTube, Post-Carbon Institute.

Natural Capital

  1. The Bank of Natural Capital demonstrates the real cost of ecological resources.

Critique of Formal Economics

  1. Grist columnist David Roberts covers economics, as in the case of climate science and economics.
  2. Paul Ormerod sees the Death of Economics.

Local sustainability and economic development

  1. BALLE offers the most compelling information about building a grass-roots green economy.
  2. FEASTA covers Ireland.
  3. Portland does sustainability.

The Commons

Protection, restoration, and expansion of the Commons provides a basic mission for Ecology, Economics, and Ethics.

  1. David Bollier's collected works on the Commons gets it right. See his Viral Spiral.
  2. The commons is basic to Peter Barnes, Capitalism 3.0 (pdf)

Inequality, Fairness, Access

  1. Nicholas Kristof reviews and puts into context The Spirit Level by British epidemiologists, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Stiglitz also analyzes inequality.
  2. A shorter work week would help women, says nef.

Consumerism ^

  1. Annie Leonard's The Story of Stuff is a compelling treatment of consumerism. See her video.
  2. Jeff Smith, Re-Framing Earth Day: From Corporate Polluters to Individual Consumers, GRIID, March 29, 2010. Smith advocates a shift in strategy from villifying businesses that pollute to simply not purchasing their polluting products.

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