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Portland’s circular economy is primed for success. Can it offer a blueprint for the rest of us?

Sustainable Economies Aaron Fernando -
Click here to view original web page at www.shareable.net This year’s climate conference, COP 27, focused a lot on loss and damage compensation. The question...

Global momentum on clean electricity keeps building: Canada must prioritize action now

Sustainable Economies Binnu Jeyakumar -
Click here to view original web page at www.pembina.org Binnu Jeyakumar, director of the Pembina Institute’s clean electricity program, attended COP27 in Egypt this month....

Views from COP27: How the climate conference could confront colonialism by centring Indigenous rights

Sustainable Economies Chief Ninawa Huni Kui and Vanessa Andreotti -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com The Huni Kui Indigenous people are an integral part of the Amazon Rainforest. They don’t differentiate...

Energy transition and post-growth scenarios

Sustainable Economies Óscar Carpintero and Jaime Nieto Vega -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org We are living in a context today in which the physical limits, natural resource constraints, and...

Canada can’t let industry and provinces stall carbon pricing

Sustainable Economies David Suzuki and Ian Hanington -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Although carbon pricing is widely accepted as a critical tool to help resolve the climate crisis,...

GDP is a useless measurement. But what should replace it?

Sustainable Economies Lisa Hough-Stewart -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org We must place true value on the environment and go beyond gross domestic product as a...

U.S. Green New Deal Goes Local

Sustainable Economies John Feffer -
Click here to view original web page at fpif.org Are There Lessons For Canada In U.S. Experience? The Biden administration will be spending hundreds of...

How the blue economy will shape the future of Canada’s oceans — and its coastal communities

Sustainable Economies Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor, Leah M. Fusco and Marleen Simone Schutter -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com The words “blue economy” will soon shape the future of Canada’s oceans, from the fiords and...

Regenerative agriculture is the answer to extreme weather

Sustainable Economies Doreen Nicoll -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Regenerative farming practices are integral to keeping a farm healthy and resilient during extreme weather conditions....

Across the globe, those harmed by climate change are turning to courts

Sustainable Economies Doug Johnson -
Click here to view original web page at ensia.com Climate litigation is on the rise, as is the activism that goes along ...

Why the climate justice movement should put decoloniality at its core

Sustainable Economies Winne van Woerden -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org “Capitalism is an imperialist system of colonization of the planet. (…) This regime of production...

Book review: The future is degrowth

Sustainable Economies Timothée Parrique -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org The best the degrowth literature has to offer served on a silver platter. That’s how I...

Global Public Law and Climate Change: Evolve or Die

Sustainable Economies Thomas Boudreau -
Click here to view original web page at mahb.stanford.edu “The law must be stable but it must not be still.” – Roscoe Pound Introduction As an outgrowth...

A new index measures the human impacts on Amazon waters

Sustainable Economies Ronaldo Ribeiro, Letícia Klein, Kevin Damasio and Laura Kurtzberg -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Based on the best scientific data available, the unprecedented Amazon Water Impact Index draws together monitoring...

Canada’s new climate plan is reckless, but a better way forward is still possible

Sustainable Economies Jason MacLean -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Canada’s new climate plan is reckless. The federal government’s Emissions Reduction Plan doesn’t meet the criteria...

Rural communities have an unprecedented chance to thrive in a post-COVID Canada

Sustainable Economies Matthew Mendelsohn, Jamie Van Ymeren, Noah Zon and Jasmin Irwin -
Click here to view original web page at policyresponse.ca As governments increasingly incorporate inclusive growth principles into their economic policies, there is growing recognition of...

A new building in France makes the case for hemp to replace concrete

Sustainable Economies Elissaveta M. Brandon -
Click here to view original web page at www.fastcompany.com "You can make bricks out of hemp, 3D print with it, and even mix it with...

10 Reasons to be Optimistic (Without Being Naive) About Climate Change

Sustainable Economies Jeff Goodell -
Click here to view original web page at www.yesmagazine.org The 26th U.N. Climate Change Conference got underway in Glasgow this week, and it already looks...

How urban gardens can boost biodiversity and make cities more sustainable

Sustainable Economies Curated by SocialCommons.ca -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com In our understanding of the Commons, human and social rights are intertwined with a third level...

The Power of Local Money for a Thriving Local Economy

Sustainable Economies Jackie Brown -
Click here to view original web page at www.yesmagazine.org Ann Lapenna always felt buoyed by a sense of belonging when she walked into the West...
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