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Degrowth: Resource Guide

Bright Green Editors 6 March 2021 Degrowth: Resource Guide2021-03-06T12:36:05+00:00 Comment No Comment
Image credit via pasa47 under CC BY Given the worsening climate emergency, many environmentalists on the left are talking about degrowth – a model of economic thinking which rejects the…
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The Bank of England has taken a step towards accountability. But it needs to go further.

Sam Alston 20 May 2020 The Bank of England has taken a step towards accountability. But it needs to go further.2020-05-20T20:16:33+01:00 Comment No Comment
This Tuesday the Bank of England conceded to pressure to make public the names of the firms it was supporting. But it also imposed conditions on partaking in the facility.…
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The “economy vs lives” narrative is a myth

Benjamin Smith 1 May 2020 The “economy vs lives” narrative is a myth2020-05-01T15:34:56+01:00 Comment 3 Comments
The current crisis has upended the status quo. The ideas that we as Greens have been championing for a long time, have come to the forefront of public and political…
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Bail out deserving people, not irresponsible corporations

Rajiv Sinha 8 April 2020 Bail out deserving people, not irresponsible corporations2020-04-08T13:50:22+01:00 Comment 2 Comments
Our government's fiscal strategy seems designed to exacerbate already-worsening economic conditions and pick up where the failures of 2008 left off. In the coming weeks, months, years the CEOs of…
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We can’t let the coronavirus induced economic crisis drive a mass investment in carbon intensive industries

Sam Alston 18 March 2020 We can’t let the coronavirus induced economic crisis drive a mass investment in carbon intensive industries2020-03-18T20:20:42+00:00 Comment No Comment
By every conventional measure the UK economy is in crisis. And it's set to only get worse. Like in every recent economic crisis, central banks are stepping in and deploying…
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Economics as if the planet mattered: Ann Pettifor’s The Case for the Green New Deal

Harry Holmes 25 October 2019 Economics as if the planet mattered: Ann Pettifor’s The Case for the Green New Deal2019-10-25T19:30:58+01:00 Comment No Comment
Image credit via TEDxUU, Creative Commons Having just finished Naomi Klein’s On Fire, I was left feeling slightly unsatisfied and wanted a more robust book on the Green New Deal.…
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5 reasons why a Green New Deal and Universal Basic Income go hand in hand

Martin Osborne 10 October 2019 5 reasons why a Green New Deal and Universal Basic Income go hand in hand2019-10-11T13:41:44+01:00 Comment 7 Comments
There has been much discussion in political circles and indeed the wider press over the last year about a Green New Deal after media savvy Americans like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes revived…
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This new think tank has radical ideas for transforming our economy

Chris Saltmarsh 27 April 2019 This new think tank has radical ideas for transforming our economy2019-04-27T14:56:18+01:00 Comment No Comment
Image Credit: Chris Saltmarsh A new radical think tank has launched with the backing of leading politicians and social movement campaigners. Common Wealth aims to develop new models of democratic…
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We need a fairer, feminist tax system

Rowan Van Tromp 1 April 2019 We need a fairer, feminist tax system2019-04-15T16:29:26+01:00 Comment No Comment
Image credit: Creative Commons: Howard Lake On Saturday the 6th of April higher earners in the country will benefit from a major tax reduction as both the personal tax-free earnings…
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The death of green growth

Martin Brampton 10 March 2019 The death of green growth2019-03-23T19:48:11+00:00 Comment No Comment
Image credit: Creative Commons: Kamiel79 Human beings are optimistic. Maybe we have to be, in order to keep going. One illustration of that optimism is the notion of green Growth.…
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