by Amelia Jaycen The Colorado River has a simple math problem: More water is taken out than nature refills every year. The gap between the two is also widening. Every year, an increasing amount of water is taken out of the Colorado River, as demand for water increases across the arid American West. Meanwhile, every year less water is available in the river and its tributaries as climate change and other manmade stressors cause imbalances in natural systems. The post Growth of an Economy, Deat...| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
by Dave Rollo Stafford County, Virginia, is one of the oldest counties in the United States. Unsustainable development threatens its agrarian culture and residents’ quality of life. Uniquely, the local government has tools to measure the negative impacts of growth. However, they continue to incentivize big-box commercial and retail development. They are changing zoning, extending infrastructure, and failing to increase impact fees. The county’s supervisors are serving developer interests,...| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
A giant in philanthropy has left the world he strove to help. But Peter Seidel was more: architect, futurist, author, and beloved soul.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
by Bart Hawkins Kreps Auto industry voices in Canada have made headlines recently by urging a longer timeline for the transition to electric cars. We should hope that Prime Minister Mark Carney does not give in to this demand. Yet even if Canada’s federal government sticks to the current policy, and Canadian new car sales are 100 percent zero-emission by 2035, carbon emissions will decline much more slowly than the world needs. The post Carbon and Canada’s Cars: “Business As Usual, Elec...| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
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 Amelia Jaycen In counties across the U.S.—rural and urban, democrat and republican—communities are living up close and personal with data centers. And the new neighbor is a real nightmare. The number of data centers in the U.S., whether planned, under construction, or operating, is 3,897. This is by far the most anywhere in the world, and the number is increasing weekly. We are hitting our heads on the ceiling of limits to growth. The post Technocene Ground Zero: Counties Face Off with...| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
For economic-system reform, some think we need bottom-up change, and others think it must be top-down. The correct answer: all of the above.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Neither Dems nor Reps proffer a sustainable tax code. CASSE does, with graduated tax rates, depletion taxes, Sustainability Trust Fund, etc.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Elon Musk and DOGE give budget cutting a bad name. They slash to free polluters for dumb growth! Read instead about the sustainable approach.| 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
Sprawl is a problem in Vermont, but citizens have begun to have some success in opposing additional low-density development.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
The world could be facing a new energy crisis as unconventional sources of oil, such as shale oil, begin to be depleted.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Density is needed in urban development to minimize sprawl, but density can be achieved in better and worse ways.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Local officials should prioritize the preservation of features like environmental assets that make counties great.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
