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Can sustainability save capitalism?

GreenBiz

My inbox and bookshelf have been groaning lately under the heft of some weighty books, essays and reports heralding a kinder, gentler era for capitalism. For most of those years, those visions and proposals were relegated to a relatively small group of academics and activists toiling in a world unto themselves. Joel Makower.

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Sounding the Alarm on Global Learning Poverty

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: As the executive director and co-creator of NABU , a New York-based nonprofit publisher of multilingual books on a free digital app, I am proud to be part of the global community dedicated to tackling the global literacy crisis. trillion in increased productivity to the global economy.

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Join a B Corp Network to Build Collaboration and Work Toward a More Inclusive Economy

B the Change

Learn more below about B Academics, BIPOC Network, B Tourism, B EOS Network, HR Professionals, U.S. & B Academics aims to bridge the gap between academia and the B Corp community while building awareness and creating opportunities for collaboration and innovation, Thomas says. B The Change reached out to U.S.

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Owners: If You Break It, You Own It!

Caux Round Table

I recognized, in a flash, as they say, that Joe had made a very profound point: business ethics and corporate social responsibility classes, workshops, business school classes, articles in academic journals and books had nothing to say about the duties of being an owner, of being a wealthy person.

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Regarding the second, “paradigm change,” Meadows was borrowing a concept from Thomas Kuhn’s well-noted 1962 book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” which held that once a “paradigm” or fundamental framework is changed (e.g., Dignity First Economic Leadership.

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Degrowth and the Global Movement for Environmental Justice

EJOLT

This interview with Joan Martinez Alier and Federico Demaria, from the research team of the Environmental Science and Technology Institute (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) explains how a global movement for environmental justice has risen. They also make the connection with the global economy and the need for degrowth.

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Dignity First: Executive, Enterprise & Economic Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Regarding the second, “paradigm change”, Meadows was borrowing a concept from Thomas Kuhn’s well-noted 1962 book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” which held that once a “paradigm” or fundamental framework is changed (e.g., The best part of the book is the first half of the second chapter entitled “The Third Part of the Soul.”