Economy and Policy

In this podcast episode, economic policy, which affects each of us is discussed. Economics is a sphere of life that most of us are quite unaware of as...

Helena Norberg-Hodge outlines how localising economic activity could halt ecological breakdown.

Among environmental activists and ordinary citizens...

Poverty, climate change, the erosion of democracy, an epidemic of depression – these and other global crises are symptoms of a far bigger systemic...

The localization of economic activity can be a “solution multiplier” for many of the dire problems that confront the planet today, writes Helena...

Is the sharing economy the first part of a New Economic Paradigm or is it capitalism’s latest trick to survive at all costs? Arthur De Grave shares...

E.F. Schumacher was one of the pioneers of the movement towards sustainable living and a follower of Gandhiji. His classic book “Small is Beautiful”-...

Devinder Sharma writes on the dangers of food shipped across continents – grown in one, processed and repacked elsewhere and shipped back to the...