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Humanity is destroying Earth’s ability to support complex life. But coming to grips with the magnitude of the problem is hard, even for experts.
The cost of land and, in turn, housing forces people to buy into the rules of market capitalism, making it very hard to ‘downshift’ from consumer lifestyles. But what if we rethink public housing?
Economic growth should be reimagined not only at the macro level, but also at the micro, business level. Social enterprises offer new, collaborative approaches to growth that maximize societal impact.
The residents of Freetown Christiania have lived by degrowth values for decades.
To fix the world’s ecological crises we’ll have to make some tough choices, particularly living with less stuff. Art can play an essential role in imagining and communicating a more sustainable future.
The four scenarios in the WEF’s 2017 food report paint a bleak picture. But there are better ways.
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Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
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President, Center for Conservation Biology, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University
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Project Researcher, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
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Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
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Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
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Reader in Social Geography, Newcastle University
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Full professor, IÉSEG School of Management
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Senior researcher and lecturer in sustainable business and innovation, Utrecht University
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Postdoctoral fellow, KU Leuven
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Casual Academic, School of Social Sciences & Psychology, Western Sydney University
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PhD Candidate, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
