Opinion by Alix Underwood The Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) Annual Meeting concludes today in Baltimore, Maryland. Of the dizzying multitude of topics on the agenda, the most prevalent were wildlife conservation, forest ecology, and climate change. Meeting sessions focused on niche aspects of these topics: threatened wader species on Sonadia Island, the effects of endemic mistletoes on forest-floor invertebrates, and the impacts of warming on interactions between plants and symbiont...| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
by Alix Underwood This week marks the fourth annual International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4). Leaders of governments, international organizations, and financial institutions meet in Seville, Spain, to “reform financing at all levels.” Global South countries and advocacy groups from across the world hoped this would be the moment for a UN Framework Convention on Sovereign Debt. According to Didier Jacobs, Oxfam International’s Debt Relief Advocacy Lead, The post No St...| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Agricultural surplus makes economic growth possible, but economists and policymakers regularly—and dangerously—overlook the implications.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy