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Most people have no idea how far beyond sustainable ways we are, nor do they realise that the planet cannot be saved unless we abandon our affluent-consumer-capitalist society. Recent admirable contributions to P and I have yet again raised alarm about the urgent and neglected
For at least 10 years, ‘sustainability’ has been a compulsory theme throughout Australian school curricula. According to Living Sustainably, The Australian Government’s National Action Plan for Education for Sustainability (2009), this educational initiative aimed to equip people to understand connections between environmental, economic, social and
This November, Sustain is showcasing and celebrating the growing urban agriculture movement around Australia. Sustain’s Executive Director, Nick Rose, explains why alternative, local and urban food movements are increasingly important and highlights some of the events happening as part of Urban Agriculture Month. By some
We are racing towards the catastrophic collapse of our bio-physical and social systems, driven by the capitalist economy. Gittins illustrates the trained incapacity of the conventional economic mind to get it. In a recent P and I article Ross Gittins endorses Rod Sims’ enthusiasm for
Introduction Education in Australia is guided by a national curriculum and has three cross-curriculum priorities, one of which is sustainability. These priorities are supposed to pervade all aspects of learning in school, rather than being confined to a single subject or topic. Because sustainability encompasses
What’s wrong with our economic system? Professor Frank Stilwell has recently suggested that its limited evolution and inability to connect the science of economics with contemporary issues are two main issues, and pointed to the diminished demand for economics degrees as a symptom of economics’
At the Paris Climate Summit in 2015 Paul Hawken realised that the language around addressing the impact of global warming on our global climate appeared to be focusing on adaptation and mitigation – but no one seemed to be focusing on a comprehensive plan to
ANZSEE 2019 Conference Ecological Economics: Solutions Now and in the Future 24–26 November 2019 RMIT University, Melbourne Worried about our future on a planet where humans already use around 75% more of Earth’s resources than the planet is capable of regenerating? Then the ANZSEE 2019
In the 1970s and 1980s a few neoclassical economists began to realise that their discipline had failed to explain the origin of environmental pollution and how to mitigate it. Even when markets were operating well, industries were continuing to pollute. The fundamental problem was, and