Offsetting Nature?: Habitat Banking and Biodiversity Offsets in the English Land Use Planning System
Hannis and Sullivan argue that by encouraging us to think that one bit of nature is much like another, biodiversity offsetting undermines the unique place-based relationships between people and nature, moving us further away from ecological sustainability.
Green Economy Inquiry: Environmental Audit Committee
Green House's response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry into the Green Economy.
Sustainability Citizenship
Dobson argues that government obsession with financial incentives, or with the politics of nudging people to do the right thing, is undermining the creation of an ethically-based sustainability citizenship. And it is only with the latter that we will make long-term changes to how we live.
Mutual Security in a Sustainable Economy
Molly Scott Cato and Brian Heatley argue that welfare needs to be reconsider in the light of a sustainable economy.
The Dog that Didn't Bark
Lines looks at the 28 years following the Second World War when there were no such crises. He concludes that we need to reduce the interconnections between banks by introducing severe restrictions on interbank lending and derivatives trading, and reintroducing exchange controls
Defensive Localism or Creative Localisation?
In this article Scott Cato addresses some of the issues raised by the Localism Bill
The Political Economy of ‘Progressive Austerity’
Can there be anything ‘progressive’ about austerity? Does capitalist crisis always have to be resolved anti-socially, with mass unemployment and impoverishment, and on political terms which favour the right? Our most recent history is not encouraging.
