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
Tucker County, WV, is a biodiversity hotspot, now threatened by a huge data center. Citizens have the expertise to minimize harm.| 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
In the Amazon, "clean" energy projects, including mining for transition minerals, are being greenwashed. Indigenous peoples are resisting.| 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
The steady state economy is the sustainable alternative to the ravages of growth in the 21st century. Help get us there—join CASSE today!| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
by David Shreve In cap-and-trade systems, the government places a “cap,” or limit, typically on pollution or resource extraction. The amount of pollution or extraction is then divided into “allowances,” which are allocated to the polluting or extracting corporations. These corporations can trade their unused allowances in the marketplace. Cap-and-trade policies promise significant abatement at an optimally low cost. But does experience with cap-and-trade systems vindicate this promise...| 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
Gold demand is high and prices are skyrocketing, but the technics for a "circular" supply, dominated by recycling and reuse, are conceivable.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
By Dave Rollo In Carbon County, Pennsylvania, the conservation ethic runs deep. It manifests in the county’s comprehensive plan, its “return on environment” analysis, and most recently, a fund to preserve open space, which voters overwhelmingly supported. Carbon County derives its name from the abundant deposits of anthracite—the highest quality coal—that were once mined there. The county is located in the southern Pocono Mountains, The post In the Poconos, They’re <em>Keeping</em...| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Sustainability is trending—so is overconsumption. Gen Z has high stakes in Earth's future but is influenced by social media consumerism.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
The U.S. transportation system has become more unsustainable than ever. We can change course with restructured public investments.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
American housing is mired in unaffordability and unsustainability. CASSE's Sustainable Housing Act conduces smaller houses and less sprawl.| 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
Meet the staff of CASSE, the one organization dedicated explicitly to advancing the steady state economy as a policy goal and consumer ethic.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Kyiv Communiqué provides unique critique of Nord 2 Pipeline; international consortium questions merits of GDP growth as project goal.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
We should "make" the county great "again" when it's beautiful to start with? Better to KEEP it great by protecting it from the GDP bulldozer!| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Degrowth and steady-state movements are allied historically and logically. They should be politically as well.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Top 15 policies of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy for the transition from growth to a steady state economy.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Articles from the CASSE blog, the Steady State Herald, published Thursday mornings, with analysis and opinion on a wide range of sustainability topics.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
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Coming out of the COVID pandemic, we’ll need a Full and Sustainable Employment Act for transitioning to a steady state economy.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
GDP is readily convertible to the ecological footprint, making it an indispensable metric for recognizing and communicating limits to growth.| 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
The Finger Lakes region faces development pressures, but local agencies are working hard to protect farmland and other natural assets.| 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
