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Category Archives: Green Economy
What Is and ISN’T the Economy for?
John de Graaf and David Batker have done something wonderful – they wrote a book about the economy that is funny. Not only is What’s the Economy for, Anyway? funny, it is also simple, so that even those without advanced economic degrees can understand it.
Tagged Consumption, Economy, Government, Policy
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Greek People Take on Financiers
The situation in Greece is giving clear evidence that economics never could be separated from politics, and that the subject should have retained its original title of ‘political economy’.
Tagged Economics, Greece, Politics
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Swap, Don’t Shop: Making Green in the Sharing Economy
With the development of social networking sites, user-generated content, and increased access to broadband technologies and personal computers, the Internet has been radically redefined and repositioned.
Global venture investment declines, but corporates step up and the IPO window cracks open
Venture capitalists might be running short of cash. This past quarter (Q1 2012), global venture capital investments declined 19% from the prior quarter and 31% year-over-year.
Tagged Cleantech, green economy, Investment
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Sustainable Capitalism White Paper
While governments and civil society will need to be part of the solution to the challenges we face, ultimately it will be companies and investors that will mobilise the capital needed to address the problems of our age.
Tagged Capital, green economy, Investment
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WAGE: Women and the Green Economy
To accelerate and provide the new thinking and creative power for a global post-carbon economy, Earth Day Network is engaging women business, government and NGO leaders in its “Women and the Green Economy” (WAGE®) Campaign.
Tagged green economy, Jobs, Women
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Green Economy Guide for Women
A manual from the Department of Labor offers guidance to women interested in entering the green workforce. The guide is entitled, “Why Green Is Your Color: A Woman’s Guide to a Sustainable Career.”
Tagged green economy, Jobs, Women
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Yeah, yeah, GDP is bad.
In January, Demos released a new report titled Beyond GDP: New Measures for a New Economy. It’s hardly earth shattering – Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is an ineffective measure of true economic and societal progress, there are other options, and we should use them.
Tagged Economics, GDP, green economy
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