Regeneration as a New Economic Policy Paradigm

tl;dr: Regeneration is a forward-looking paradigm focused on increasing  the evolutionary ability of social-ecological systems by including everyone and everything that matters for a viable society In 2022, Earth Overshoot Day for North America came in March, for Europe mostly in May. The unsustainability of the dominant growth- and exploitation-oriented political-economic system is out in the open, for everyone to see. At the same time, we celebrate some anniversaries this year: 50 years of the first UN conference on the natural environment in Stockholm, 50 years since the publication of “Limits go Growth”, 35 years since the publication of “Our Common Future”, and 30 years since the Earth Summit in Rio. Read more

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The Business Model of Enough

tl;dr: Using social-practice theory to construct a generic business model for sufficiency We live in an era of unsustainability. Our political-economic systems are producing massive economic wealth on the back of large-scale ecological degradation. Busine

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Hacking growth!

tl;dr Recapture the concept of growth by reformulating it as ecological growth, containing expansion and contraction, and a clear focus on ecosystem regeneration A very long time ago, in the autumn of 2022, Liz Truss was briefly Prime Minister of the Unit

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ASEAN-QA Alumni at the 2016 IIEP Policy Forum

From 9th to 11th June 2016, the IIEP Policy Forum 2016 took place in Xiamen, China. The conference was organized by the UNESCO Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP-UNESCO), the Xiamen University and the Chinese Higher Education Evaluation Centre (HEEC

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Ocean Change 2021

Arved Fuchs and his crew start for the expedition Ocean Change 2021 in the North Atlantic. The underwater measurement system CTD75M from Sea & Sun Technology is on board. To protect your personal data, your connection to YouTube

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Is there a trade-off between convenience and security when using Ruby Gems in your web app?

Ruby is a dynamic, multi-paradigm, object oriented programming language created in the 1990’s by Yukihiro Matsumoto. Its elegant syntax and flexibility has made it one of the most appealing programming languages for development and as a result, today, Rub

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