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Economic Equity
 | Unexpected connections: Income inequality and environmental degradationPosted on 13 February 2012 by Jaqueline Haupt |
Ensuring that natural resources are consumed and waste is produced at sustainable rates represent major contemporary challenges. Recognition of these challenges resulted in the endorsement in 2000 of environmental sustainability as one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015. However, by 2003 global rates of consumption and waste production were estimated to be at least 25% higher than the capacity of the planet to provide resources and absorb waste (Kitzes, et al., 2007) and this rate may have risen as high as 50% by 2007 (WWF, 2010). A vital aspect of achieving sustainability is widespread social change, yet the current theoretical knowledge of societal transformation processes is limited. In order to improve nations’ environmental performance, a better understanding of socioeconomic and behavioural forces driving such unsustainable development is required.
 | Towards a climate change scenario that is ecologically sustainable, fair, and welfare-increasingPosted on 19 November 2011 by Philip Lawn |
Dr Phil Lawn visited recently from Flinders University and gave a lecture at UWA. The audio-video recording of the lecture can be found here, and the abstract of his talk is shown below.
 | Who cares about cleaner living?Posted on 26 September 2011 by Bret Hart |
Some of you may know of the story related by the famous psychiatrist specialising in death and dying, the late Dr Elizabeth Kübler-Ross. She described how she had noticed that some of her patients in her hospital in Chicago were happier and more at peace on certain days. She discovered that this coincided with the days that an uneducated elderly black cleaning lady sat on their beds, occasionally held their hands and chatted and laughed with the patients. In particular there was one dying lady on oxygen who was in pain and in denial about her impending death who expressed concern to the cleaner that plugging in the vacuum cleaner might spark an explosion. The astute cleaner recognised this worry as a call for help with her fear of dying and seized the moment to explore her thanatophobia.
 | Earthworker Cooperative UpdatePosted on 5 August 2011 by Stephan Lewandowsky |
Some time ago we introduced the Earthworker Cooperative, a cooperative dedicated to providing finance, assistance with marketing strategy, R&D and networking of the various, loose strands of the social sector of the Australian economy. Their goal is to create a powerful force for the collective good, on behalf of its member cooperatives, unions, shire councils, faith-based communities and individuals.
 | Aussie Workers Taking the LeadPosted on 27 May 2011 by Dave Kerin |
Why Earthworker Cooperative?
The United Nations has declared 2012 the International Year of Co-operatives in recognition of their contribution to socio-economic development and in particular their track record in impacting poverty reduction, employment generation and social integration.
 | Economic Growth and Human Wellbeing (Part III)Posted on 5 May 2011 by Carmen Lawrence |
(This post is the final post of a three-part series. See Part 1: Introduction and Part 2: Revisiting Limits to Growth.)
| Economic Growth and Human Wellbeing (Part II)Posted on 3 May 2011 by Carmen Lawrence |
(This post is the second of a three-part series. See Part 1: Introduction and Part 3: The Psychological Down Side of Growth.)
| Economic Growth and Human Wellbeing (Part I)Posted on 1 May 2011 by Carmen Lawrence |
Economic Growth and Human Wellbeing in Three Parts
The current debate about our planetary future is infused with fear that we may lose some economic prosperity during the transition to a low-carbon economy. Although those fears are largely misplaced, it is nonetheless important to examine to what extent our wellbeing as a species relies on economic growth. Do we need growth to be happy?
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