Podcasts about steady state economy

When written in numbers, today's full date has four twos, a zero, and a five. Put them all together in the right way and it's February 22, 2025, and I will not play a similar puzzle with the name of the show which begins with two C-words and an E. I'm Sean Tubbs, the producer of Charlottesville Community Engagement which is made up of the audio versions of stories about local and regional government in the Central Virginia listening area. Let's get to it.Today's audio versions of stories already published in written form:* A round-up of the landscape of local elections as the spring comes closer* Charlottesville School Superintendent Gurley presents budget request to City Council (learn more)* A look at the City of Charlottesville's finances before the next budget comes out (learn more)* Two members of City Council pay tribute to the late Charlottesville Mayor Satyendra Huja (learn more)* The Buildings and Grounds Committee of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors endorses the design for new student residences planned for the intersection of Ivy Road and Copeley Road (learn more)* The University of Virginia's Board of Visitors has the first of two emergency meetings to discuss the future of gender-affirming care at the UVA Health System (learn more)Every so often there's a podcast version which may also have something worth reading in the text. It's up to you to decide. First shout-out: Celebrating the community's other information organizations!In today's first shout-out in the form of a house ad, I want to make sure everyone knows that every edition of the regular newsletter (not the podcast ones) ends with a section called Reading Material. Charlottesville Community Engagement is just one offering in a landscape that includes the Charlottesville Daily Progress, C-Ville Weekly, Charlottesville Tomorrow, and Cville Right Now, I curate links from these sources because I believe a truly informed community needs multiple perspectives.There's also the Cavalier Daily, Vinegar Hill Magazine, the Fluvanna Review, the Crozet Gazette, NBC29, CBS19, and other sources. But if you look every day, you'll find links to articles in national publications, all linked to give you more perspectives on some of the issues of our times.Show notes for 817A: Why this one and not another one?In this particular edition of the newsletter that carries the podcast, a behind-the-scenes glimpse into how things get made. For the past year now, audio production has shifted as I began doing a radio version for WTJU. The show airs at 6 a.m. so the audience may be low, but I'm grateful to have a regular place in the airwaves.This week was another where I didn't have a lot of audio because most of the stories this week were ones that didn't originate from a meeting. Take a look at the table below the second shout-out to see what I've been up for the past two weeks. By the time I get to Saturday morning, I'm ready to get to the new set of stories.I spent Friday putting together the audio versions, a process that takes a lot longer than it used to because the audio can't be terrible. It could be terrible when this was just a podcast. On Friday morning I wasn't sure how I was going to pull off putting together a 29 minute piece, but somehow it happened.One of the ideas was to take two of the Election 2025 stories and put them together as the show's opener. I almost never read new copy for WTJU but this time it made sense to eat up time in the show by giving listeners a little more information.I also added about a minute to the piece on members of City Council paying tribute to the late Satyendra Huja by including a clip from his 2007 interview with Charlottesville Tomorrow. I was able to grab that from his cvillepedia entry and imagine my surprise when I heard my voice as the interviewer! I forgot I had done that.In any case, that's this set of stories. I'm going to leave the text for the script for the election round-up.Election round-up: Information on Jack Jouett District race in Albemarle and Charlottesville School BoardThere are 254 days until the general election on November 4. Virginians will go to the polls to elect a new Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General. They'll also select a member of the House of Delegates as all 100 seats are up.There are also local elections across the area.For the first time in six years, there will be a contested race for the Democratic nomination for a seat on the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors.In January, Supervisor Diantha McKeel announced she would not seek re-election to another term for the seat she has held since 2015. Two candidates have expressed interest in replacing her as the Democrat on the ballot for the Jack Jouett District.Sally Duncan of Earlysville, a history teacher, has filed paperwork with the Virginia Department of Elections to run as a Democrat for the seat.Earlier this month, historian David Shreve told members of the Albemarle Democratic Party that he would also be seeking the nomination.The two as well any other candidates who emerge will be on the ballot of the June 17, 2025 Democratic Primary unless the local party decides to pick another nomination process.Duncan received an undergraduate degree in American Studies from the University of Virginia in 2020 and earned a graduate degree in Religious Studies in 2023. She's currently a high school history teacher and has a total of five children.Duncan will formally announce her candidacy at the County Office Building on February 25 at 11 a.m.Shreve has served as a member of the Citizens Transportation Advisory Committee as well as the Albemarle County Economic Development Authority. He has also served as co-chair of the Jack Jouett District Albemarle Democratic Party Committee. Shreve has also been involved with several non-profit groups including a board member at the group Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population.In his professional capacity, Shreve has worked for the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia and spent one year working for the National Governors Association. He recently started a job as a senior economist for the Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy.This year in Albemarle, both Rio District Supervisor Ned Gallaway and Samuel Miller District Supervisor Jim Andrews are up for election. Neither has yet revealed their plans.There will also be a contested race for the Charlottesville City School Board. Last time around there were four seats open, and four candidates emerged. This time the seats held by Emily Dooley, Lisa Torres, and Dom Morse are all up for election.Both Dooley and Torres have stated they will seek reelection. So far, I've not heard from Morse but both Dashad Cooper and Zyahna Bryant have filed their paperwork to run for the seats.More in the future.Learn more:* Two Democrats have announced for Jack Jouett seat on Albemarle Board of Supervisors* Zyahna Bryant enters the race for Charlottesville School BoardSecond shout-out: Town Crier ProductionsI created Town Crier Productions in the summer of 2020 as a way of getting back to the business of journalism. Whether you are listening or reading this newsletter, it's part of a venture based on a pretty simple idea: I will continue to spend my time researching and reporting and will provide ways for people who want to pay for the material to be produced!In 2025 I'm seeking ways to solidify the business, and here are some ways you can support the work.* Sign up for a paid subscription through Substack. There is not much premium content because my primary aim is to get information out to as many people as possible. 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In this episode, we are joined by Lewis Stocks, portfolio specialist with WestEnd Advisors, who specializes in managing strategies built around the economic cycle. Lewis shares the firm's outlook on the U.S. and international landscape and how they are positioned for a slow but steady phase of the economic cycle with an emphasis on U.S. sector positioning.

In this episode Ashley and Jason have a conversation with Neal Gorenflo (@gorenflo ) and Daniel London (@dlondonwortel ) on the theme of solidarity and bioregional economies. Specifically, where the solidarity and bioregonalist movements intersect, blind spots of each, and where they can compliment each other to create a viable vision for sustainable and equitable economies moving forward. Neal Gorenflo is the co-founder and board president of Shareable, an award-winning nonprofit news, action network, and consultancy for the real sharing economy (plus a dad, husband, community gardener, and budding urban forester). An epiphany in 2004 inspired Neal to leave the corporate world to help people and communities share resources. Subsequently, Neal co-founded Shareable and led it from 2009-2022 as Executive Director. In the process, he became knowledgeable about resource sharing, the commons, and the solidarity economy through practice, activism, entrepreneurship, writing, publishing (4,000+ articles), consulting, and public speaking. He's consulted for Institute for the Future, Stanford University, Lowe's Home Improvement, and numerous startups. His expertise has been featured by The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, CBS Sunday Morning, Wired, Fast Company, Christian Science Monitor, Grist, and Sunset Magazine. He is an experienced public speaker with countless appearances at conferences on four continents over the last decade. His writing is featured in YES! Magazine, 7x7 Magazine, The Urbanist, and the anthologies The Wealth of the Commons, Open Design Now, and Enabling City. He's editor, publisher or author of 10 books including "Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons" and "Share or Die". In 2020, he chronicled his pandemic experiences resulting in the book, "A Year of Living Locally." Neal earned a masters with distinction from Georgetown University's Communication, Culture & Technology program and BAs in American Studies and English Literature with distinction from George Mason University. Contact him at neal at shareable dot net. Daniel Wortel-London is a historian and advocate of economic and ecological justice. He currently serves as Policy Specialist for the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. He has also served as Knowledge Co-Lead for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance and Research Coordinator for the CivWorld project at Demos. He earned his Ph.D. in History from New York University, where his dissertation focused on the history of alternative economic development strategies in New York City. This project, titled "The Menace of Prosperity," is currently under advanced contract with the University of Chicago Press. A native of Hoboken, Dan works out of West Orange, NJ. You can find him on X @‌dlondonwortel, and his articles can be found at www.publicspaced.com https://www.publicspaced.com/

Brian Czech, founder of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, is an ecological economist and former conservation biologist. Brian joined me just after returning from COP15 and, thankfully, says the fallacy of economic growth is finally being discussed at these critical conferences.On the episode, Brian explains the relationship between economics and the planet's biosphere before introducing steady state economics, an economic model which prioritises stability and the protection of planetary boundaries. He also describes his time working for the US government, and walks us through the trophic theory which dismantles any techno-utopian argument that we can innovate our way out of the climate crisis and continue to enjoy growth for growth's sake.Planet: Critical investigates why the world is in crisis—and what to do about it.© Rachel Donald Get full access to Planet: Critical at www.planetcritical.com/subscribe

“My dream is to live off-grid”. A sentence that seems to come up more and more frequently throughout the last few years. Who does not want to live sustainably and be self-subsistent ? Yet, how is it really to live off-grid in remote areas, away from modern society, but yet to stay in western countries ? This is what we are discussing with our special guest Moriz Steiner in this episode. Moriz lived in his early teens in remote off-grid mountain huts, looking after cattle, and also discovering nature and himself. We touch upon topics such as the reason for living such off-grid lifestyles, if and how they can be reproduced by others in different countries, the sustainability, impact on wilderness, and how it relates to Steady State Economy, Ecological Economics, and Indigenization efforts. If you want to learn more about it and hear all the sweet details, we appreciate you tuning in. References mentioned https://zalp.ch/stellenboerse/alpstellen https://www.workaway.info/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/falk-huettmann/support

'Trickle Down' does NOT work. For KGNU 'It's The Economy' host, Claudia Cragg spoke with SteadyState.org's Rob Dietz. He brings a fresh perspective to the discussion of economics and environmental sustainability with a diverse background in economics, environmental science and engineering, and conservation biology (plus his work in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors). His expertise has given him an unusual ability to connect the dots when it comes to the topic of sustainability.  Rob is the author, with Dan O'Neill, of . Rob has tried, he says, to align his personal life with the principles of a 'steady state economy'.  He lives with his wife and daughter in a co-housing community striving for development rather than growth. Rob Dietz is the Program Director at Post Carbon Institute, where he is responsible for guiding projects from conception to completion. With training and experience in ecological economics, environmental science, and conservation biology, he has built a career aimed at moving society in sustainable directions. Prior to joining Post Carbon Institute, Rob worked as a project manager at Farmland LP, helping to transition conventional farmland to organic. He was also the first executive director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (), taking it from an unfunded start-up organization to an internationally respected leader on new economic thinking.  He is the lead author of , a popular book on steady-state economics that Noam Chomsky called “lucid, informed, and highly constructive.” Rob also has produced dozens of articles and presentations on a variety of topics related to sustainability. Rob is a former Presidential Management Fellow, with appointments at the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  He was the first person at the Fish and Wildlife Service to serve as a Conservation Goals Coordinator, a position that combined long-range planning and landscape modeling for the National Wildlife Refuge System. He also did time as an economic analyst at two Washington, DC, consulting firms. His educational background includes a master's degree in environmental science and engineering from Virginia Tech and an undergraduate degree in economics and environmental studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Daly is a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. He received his bachelor's degree from Rice University in Texas, and his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt. He is known chiefly for his time as a senior economist at the World Bank's Environment Department. He is the co-founder of the journal of Ecological Economics and has written innumerable journal articles throughout the decades. He is the author of several books including "Toward a Steady-State Economy," "Valuing the Earth," "Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development," and many more. From the start, Dr. Daly has focused on sustainable development, ecological economics, and the role the state plays within the economy. His work has been quite fruitful as it has won him many awards, including Sweden's Honorary Right Livelihood Award, the Dutch Heineken Prize for Environmental Science, Norway's Sophie award for sustainable development, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from America's National Council for Science and the Environment. Dr. Daly and the Henry George School discussed the growing de-growth movement, how societies can develop without harming natural endowments, and how mainstream economic indicators could be rethought to include environmental impact. To check out more of our content, including our research, visit our website: https://www.hgsss.org/

Dr Haydn Washington (pictured) once wanted to put rockets on the moon, but he was only eight years old and life took him in a whole new direction enabling him to learn about the wonders we have here on Earth. The University of New South Wales adjunct lecturer has dedicated his life to making this a better place to live and sees those improvements coming through, among other things, our attention to the world's economic systems and so is involved with The New Economy and the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. It was the 2011 book "Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand" that sparked my interest in Dr Washington, but he has written many others, the most recent being: "Ecoreciprocity: Giving Back to Nature". Another relatively recent book by Dr Washington is "Ecological Economics: Solutions for the Future". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/robert-mclean/message

In this episode we talk with Brian Czech, Executive Director for the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, about what a steady state economy means, where and whether it overlaps with circular economy thinking, and what its implementation might mean for the food system as a whole. 

Nothing is so intertwined with human success and folly as economics. The economy, for better or for worse, drives much of our fate from our household budget to our national policies to the outbreak of war. But economic activity also has profound effects on the environment and a close inspection of economics opens the question of whether humans can live sustainably on the only planet we have. The field of economics that focuses on sustainability and the environmental costs of economic activity is ecological economics. With us to discuss this field is one of its founders, Herman Daly. Herman received a B.A. in economics from Rice University in 1960 and a PhD in from Vanderbilt University in 1967. He was a professor of economics at Louisiana State University until 1988, and then served as senior economist in the environment department of the World Bank until 1994. He then joined the faculty at the University of Maryland in the School of Public Affairs. Herman is the author of over 100 articles in professional journals, as well as many books, including: Toward a Steady-State Economy (1973), Steady-State Economics (1977), Valuing the Earth (1993), Beyond Growth (1996), Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics (1999), Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications (2004), and Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development (2007). He is co-author with theologian John B. Cobb, Jr. of the award-winning book, For the Common Good (1989). He also co-founded the journal Ecological Economics and the International Society of Ecological Economics. Herman has received too many awards to list here, but they include Sweden's Honorary Right Livelihood Award, the Heineken Prize for Environmental Science from the Netherlands, the Sophie Prize for Environment and Development from Norway, the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council for Science and the Environment, and the Blue Planet Prize.

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Why the glaring absence, in the media, of limits to growth? Why do we hear nothing about the steady state economy? The answers might surprise you. Listen to Tom Horton — long-time newspaper journalist and steady stater — discuss with Brian the Barriers to the Steady State Economy in the Media.

It remains undisputed for over a century that 'Seabirds are Indicators', the same can be said is true for the Global Ocean Crisis in the Anthropocene. However, considering the reality of oceans and many seabirds, the applied policy concept that seabirds can show us the status of fish stocks - can actually forcast them- and indicate the ocean's health for pre-cautionary action has apparently failed. Seabird scientists in their respective institutions and employments watched and studied their indicators first-hand but did not get active, hardly acknowledged and promoted it or really stopped a desaster unfolding right under our all noses. Conservation principles and the underlying causes of the problem got widely ignored or not addressed well, failing many future generations. Here I elaborate in two sound files on this tragic-surprising problem and I question the effectiveness, structure and validity of 'modern' seabird research and employment - including some legislation - that is currently done for conservation, also involving inherent topics of data sharing, statistics, public office, ethics and biotagging. Citations (PDFs available from the author on request): Bandura A. (2007) Impeding ecological sustainability through selective moral disengagement. Int. J. Innovation and Sustainable Development 2: 8-30 Cairs, D. (1988). Seabirds as indicators of marine food supplies. Biological Oceanography 5 (4), 261-271 Huettmann, F. and B. Czech (2006) Taking Marine Seabird Conservation Seriously: Towards a Steady State Economy for the Pacific and Beyond. Pacific Seabirds Volume 33 Fall 2: 52-54. Huettmann F., T. Riehl and K. Meissner (2016) Paradise lost already? A naturalist interpretation of the pelagic avian and marine mammal detection database of the IceAGE cruise off Iceland and Faroe Islands in fall 2011. Environment, Systems and Decisions DOI: 10.1007/s10669- 015-9583-0 Pauly, D. and M.L. Palomares (2005) Fishing down marine food webs: it is far more pervasive than we thought. Bulletin of Marine Science 76(2): 197-211. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/falk-huettmann/support

You can't have a steady state economy without a smartly designed policy infrastructure. In this episode, Brian explains six policies that would bring any nation closer to a steady state: (1) the Full and Sustainable Employment Act, (2) cap-auction-trade systems, (3) luxury taxes, (4) salary caps, (5) population stabilization incentives, (6) phase-out of fractional reserve banking.

High-speed car chases through the desert. Homemade alcohol. Stolen water. Power cuts. Catholic pilgrimages. This episode travels from Egypt to the Amazon, from Arizona to Portland, from France to Ethiopia — and it's all about one tiny blue fish. For full episode notes, visit: https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes Roundness is a cross-disciplinary podcast produced by the Queen's Library at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet. (https://www.qebarnet.co.uk) Sources: Description of the Sonoran desert was adapted from Rekha Warrier's article "A brief history of three desert survivors". Global average heights for men and women taken from Our World in Data. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument reopens. Analysis of Quitobaquito's falling water levels in 2020 taken from "Sacred Arizona spring drying up as border wall construction continues" by Douglas Main; and "The Disappearance of Quitobaquito Springs: Tracking Hydrologic Change with Google Earth Engine" by Logan Williams.2050 water usage statistics taken from Seth Darling's TEDxNaperville talk. Details on disagreements between Ethiopia and Egypt adapted from “The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)”, Geography Review, Hodder Education, September 2020 Volume 34 Number 1, pp. 7-9 (p. 9). Information on Pharaoh Menes's dam taken from the Young People's Trust For the Environment. Trump says: "blow up that dam". The tragic pilgrimage of William X, Duke of Aquitane: details adapted from the BBC Radio 4 series "Eleanor Rising" and the book "Eleanor of Aquitane" by Marion Meade. Willamette fishing anecdote adapted from Rob Dietz's blog post published by the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. Hundreds of toxins in the Willamette River water, soil, and fish. Further listening/reading: Mutant fish (and cows!) with green intestines... with Mark "The Hulk" Ruffalo. The failure of negative externalities. Episode illustration: Steve the pupfish in mating season by Simba Baylon (Instagram: @simbalenciaga) Additional music: Lee Rosevere and Doctor Turtle. "What Happened in the Past Doesn't Stay There", "Curiousity", "Edge of the Woods", "Let's Start at the Beginning", "Quizitive", "More Questions than Answers", "Sad Marimba Planet", "Cloudloop", and "Let That Sink In" by Lee Rosevere licensed under CC BY 4.0."Reality Cartwheeled" and “Clusticus The Mistaken” by Doctor Turtle licensed under CC BY 4.0.For full episode notes, visit: https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The reason I am seeking to keep Steady State Economics as a subject before you, as my audience, is that few other economic options subsume economics under the ecosystem. Rather other economic options subsume the ecosystem under the economy. In addition, most other economic options growth oriented economies and assume that the ecology can be saved while still growing the economy and this does not provide solution enough to address the stress every world economy is putting on our planet. If those monitoring the changes in our planet are correct, our time to make necessary and important changes is getting shorter. Awareness and implementation of a better economic option is vital! In every field of thought and research there are the visionaries, pioneers, and trailblazers. In Steady State Economics that visionary/pioneer/trailblazer is Herman Daly! Herman E. Daly is professor emeritus at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. From 1988 to 1994 he was senior economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank. Prior to 1988 he was alumni professor of economics at Louisiana State University, where he taught economics for twenty years. He holds a BA from Rice University and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. He has served as Ford Foundation Visiting Professor at the University of Ceará (Brazil), as a Research Associate at Yale University, as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, and as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Brazil. He has served on the boards of directors of numerous environmental organizations, and was co-founder and associate editor of the journal Ecological Economics. His interest in economic development, population, resources, and environment has resulted in over a hundred articles in professional journals and anthologies, as well as numerous books, including Toward a Steady-State Economy (1973); Steady-State Economics (1977; 1991); Valuing the Earth(1993);  Beyond Growth (1996); Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics (1999); Ecological Economics: Theory and Applications (with J. Farley, 2003, 2011); Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development (2007); and From Uneconomic Growth to a Steady-State Economy (2014). He is co-author with theologian John B. Cobb, Jr. of For the Common Good (1989 ;1994) which received the 1991 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for Improving World Order. In 1996 he received Sweden's Honorary Right Livelihood Award, and the Heineken Prize for Environmental Science awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1999 he was awarded the Sophie Prize (Norway) for contributions in the area of Environment and Development; in 2001 the Leontief Prize for contributions to economic thought, and in 2002 the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic for his work in steady-state economics. In 2010 the National Council for Science and the Environment (USA) gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014 he received the Blue Planet Prize awarded by the Asahi Glass Foundation of Japan.

About Brian Czech Brian Czech is the founding president of the Center For The Advancement Of The Steady State Economy (CASSE). Czech served as the first conservation biologist in the history of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 1999-2017, and concurrently as a visiting professor of natural resource economics in Virginia Tech’s National Capitol […] The post Episode 64: Adopting A Steady State Economy To Protect Wild Nature With Brian Czech appeared first on Rewilding.

This episode is the second of what will be an ongoing series on Steady State Economics. In my mind, this approach to the economy provides the best option moving forward in light of the environmental crises developing due to approaches to the economy focused upon economic growth. One of the things that appeals to me about this approach is that it is compatible with both capitalism and socialism, so that it is adaptable and adoptable to most of the worlds existing economies. A country does not have to switch to capitalism or socialism or deal with the struggle that would be the result of debating and seeking such a switch. My guest for this episode is Dr. Brian Czech. Brian is the founder and present Executive Director of Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE). Brian’s books are listed below, but the one this interview is based upon is his Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution. Although Brian does not get beyond the understanding of those of us who are not economists, he provides us with a thorough and excellent understanding of the development of growth economies and why those approaches to the economy not only are not sustainable, but are the cause of the crises we are beginning to experience. Such an understanding is necessary to recognize why a Steady State Economy is an essential solution for our future. In addition to Supply Shock, Brian’s other works include: The Endangered Species Act: History, Conservation, Biology, and Public Policy Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop Them All Best of the Daly News: Selected Essays from the Leading Blog in Steady State Economics, 2010-2018 The music for this episode is from a clip of a song called 'Father Let Your Kingdom Come' which is found on The Porter's Gate Worship Project Work Songs album and is used by permission by The Porter's Gate Worship Project. You can learn more about the album and the Worship Project at theportersgate.com.

There's a lot of questions surrounding the steady state economy, principal among them being "what is it?" We decided to answer this most fundamental question in this week's episode of The Steady Stater. As one of the few experts on the subject, host Brian Czech provides a readily understandable introduction to what the steady state economy is, what it entails, the structure of the real economy, and the fallacies associated with the so-called "information economy."

With a solid lead in the polls and a firm commitment to environmental protection, Joe Biden has a rare opportunity to champion steady-state policies. His loudmouth opponent, President Donald Trump, continues to push disastrous pro-growth policies that serve only to destroy the environment and destabilize the economy. Biden can take advantage Trump's weak position by driving a large wedge between his economic platform and Trump's. On this week's podcast, we discuss the advantages of Biden making this distinction, ways he can effectively communicate GDP degrowth, and ideas for how steady-state voters can influence the Democratic platform.

Welcome to the Steady Stater! A podcast produced by the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State EconomyI'm Brian Czech. In this inaugural episode, I will be introducing myself, the details of the show, and some of the topics I will be discussing in future episodes. The Steady Stater is the only podcast dedicated to advancing the Steady State Economy, which is an economic philosophy seeking save our planet by curbing overconsumption, overpopulation, and halting GDP growth. Now more than ever is the time to speak up, so that's exactly what we're doing. We hope you enjoy listening and support our cause by signing the position on our website calling for a Steady State Economy: https://steadystate.org/act/sign-the-position/Thanks for listening, and I'll see you next week!

In today's episode I have the pleasure of talking to Riccardo Mastini - Riccardo is a a PhD candidate in Political Ecology and Ecological Economics at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.The topic sounded extremely interesting, particularly since Riccardo is at the forefront of academic research into degrowth - the idea that we need to transform our society to optimize the well-being of everybody and sustain the natural basis of life.Apart from studying degrowth, Riccardo is a Member of the Green New Deal for Europe and the Wellbeing Economic Alliance. He has also consulted the United Nations Environment Programme, several environmental agencies across the world and a lot of international NGOs.Our podcast was quite detailed and had an academic feel to it. It does require a bit of focus, but the explanations are so nuanced and in-depth that it's a worthy listen. We discussed how his PhD intersects with climate change, we delved deeper into degrowth, we looked at why we cannot continue to grow and decarbonize at the same time (at a meaningful rate anyway) and we explored the intricacies of the Green New Deal with a focus on Europe.Hope you enjoy this episode, let's dive right in!RICCARDO'S RELEVANT LINKSRiccardo’s website: https://rmastini.wixsite.com/degrowthRiccardo’s Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/r.mastiniRiccardo’s Twitter account: https://twitter.com/r_mastiniEPISODE TIMECODES3:47 - Riccardo's background, PhD & how it intersects with climate change10:50 - Defining the concept of degrowth21:04 - Is degrowth necessary to decarbonize?32:24 - The European Green New Deal & its challenges50:09 - Science vs Business vs Politics vs SocietyRESOURCES MENTIONEDFriends of the Earth Europe’s report ‘Sufficiency: Moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency’: http://www.foeeurope.org/sufficiencyPost-Growth Conference 2018 at the European Parliament: https://www.postgrowth2018.eu/Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona: https://ictaweb.uab.cat/Green New Deal for Europe: https://www.gndforeurope.com/campaignResearch & Degrowth: https://degrowth.org/Wellbeing Economy Alliance: https://wellbeingeconomy.org/Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy: https://steadystate.org/Degrowth.info: https://www.degrowth.info/en/Is Green Growth Possible?: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59bc0e610abd04bd1e067ccc/t/5cbdc638b208fc1c56f785a7/1555940922601/Hickel+and+Kallis+-+Is+Green+Growth+Possible.pdfDecoupling debunked: https://eeb.org/library/decoupling-debunked/A Good Life For All Within Planetary Boundaries: https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/The EU needs a stability and wellbeing pact, not more growth: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/16/the-eu-needs-a-stability-and-wellbeing-pact-not-more-growthWorld Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/70/1/8/5610806IPCC Low Energy Demand scenario: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-018-0172-6Tradable Energy Quotas scheme: https://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/teqs/

My guest on this program is Rob Dietz, the Program Director at Post Carbon Institute. Prior to joining Post Carbon Institute, Rob worked as a project manager at Farmland LP, helping to transition conventional farmland to organic. He was also the first executive director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy  taking it from an unfunded start-up organization to an internationally respected leader on new economic thinking.  He is the lead author of Enough Is Enough, a popular book on steady-state economics. During the show, I referred to a recent article by Elizabeth Rosenthal on Kaiser Health News entitled "We Knew the Coronavirus Was Coming Yet We Failed 5 Critical Tests".  I strongly recommend this article to those of you interested in health care policy.

Brian Czech, Executive Director of CASSE, on the insanity of unlimited economic growth, and advocates a Steady State Economy to ensure peace and prosperity. The post Episode 56 – Brian Czech, Executive Director, CASSE first appeared on Y on Earth Community.

As a society, we constantly hail growth as the mark of progress and solution to our problems, whether it be poverty or inequality. In doing so, we ignore that there are limits to growth and the ecosystem we live in has finite natural resources. In this episode we speak with Herman Daly, the dean of ecological economics, on his pioneering work on steady-state economy, based on the idea a constant population of people and a constant stock of physical wealth. Professor Herman Daly is a pioneering figure in economics, at the forefront of the development of the field of ecological economics, ideas he has been working on for more than 50 years, in particular the idea of the steady state economy. Herman was Senior Economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank in the 1990s where he worked to develop key sustainable development policy guidelines. In 1996, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for “defining a path of ecological economics that integrates the key elements of ethics, quality of life, environment and community”-and a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. He wrote Steady-State Economics in 1991 and edited the 1993 anthology, Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics (a revision of earlier anthologies). The post Episode 75: Interview with Professor Herman Daly, the dean of ecological economics, on the Steady state economy appeared first on The Sustainability Agenda.

Episode 10: Brian Czech is the executive director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE). Czech served as a conservation biologist in the headquarters of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 1999-2017 and as a visiting professor of natural resources economics with Virginia Tech through most of that period. He is the author of three books: Supply Shock, Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train, and The Endangered Species Act: History, Conservation Biology, and Public Policy. He has published over 50 academic journal articles in more than 20 peer-reviewed journals. Czech is a frequent speaker, commentator, and a regular contributor to the Steady State Herald, CASSE's blog. He has a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, an M.S. from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. CASSE invites readers worldwide to sign the steady-state petition at www.steadystate.org. For a short video on the steady state economy, see “Good Growing Gone Bad” at https://steadystate.org/discover/video-audio-and-presentations/. Want more details on the trophic theory of money? Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyUKjcEp1Jc This episode's motto: "Everyone needs to do their part!"

How can policymakers be persuaded to abandon the most widespread public policy goal on Earth? In our last episode, Brian Czech explained that economic growth cannot be sustained perpetually on a finite planet. This episode continues that conversation with the conservation biologist and economics expert. Here, he explains why pro-growth economists proliferate, and offers his prescription for making the shift to a steady state economy. Brian Czech is founder and president of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, and author of Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train and Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution. Join the conversation, explore past episodes, and subscribe to our free weekly newsletter at http://www.conversationearth.org

Economic growth is the number one public policy goal around the world, yet our pursuit of growth is “pulling out the rug from our own kids’ and grandkids’ future,” according to Brian Czech, founder and president of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. He wants us to understand economic growth is physically impossible to sustain on a finite planet, it’s depleting nonrenewable natural resources and degrading or eliminating crucial habitat for other species. Czech authored Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train in response to his analysis of the conflict between economic growth and sound environmental stewardship. The conservation biologist taught ecological economics for over a decade at Virginia Tech, and in 2013 penned Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution. In part one of a two-part conversation (recorded in 2007 but just as relevant today), Brian explains our obsession with GDP growth, its failure to eliminate poverty and increase happiness, and why it’s failings are not commonly acknowledged. Explore all our episodes and subscribe to our weekly newsletter at http://www.conversationearth.org

Changing the Way Money Works: The Steady State Economy and Sharing LawDescription: With the current economic framework centered around greed, the result has been environmental desolation and social interactions that set human beings against each other.The mandate for everlasting economic growth has pushed the Earth to its natural limits.This week's Global Research News Hour focuses on the need to change economics as usual. Is it possible?Our guests include James Magnus-Johnston, the Canadian Director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, and Janelle Orsi, co-founder and executive director of The Sustainable Economies Law Center in the San Francisco Bay Area.

My review of of Donnie Maclurcan's presentation for CASSE - the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady-State Economy - at Leeds University. Should all organisations be not-for-profit? Donnie believes they will be by the middle of the century.

Guest Rob Dietz, Editor of the Daly News, and former Executive Director of CASSE, the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, speaks with Diane Horn about his book "Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources", co-authored with Dan O'Neill.

JHK talks with Brian Czech, founder of The Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy and author of the new book Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Economy, published by the New Society Press.   The new KunstlerCast music is called “Adam and Ali’s Waltz” from the new recording Waiting to Fly by Mike and Ali Vass.

Guest Rob Dietz, Editor of the Daly News, and former Executive Director of CASSE, the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, speaks with Diane Horn about his book "Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources", coauthored with Dan O'Neill.

Guest Rob Dietz, Executive Director, Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, speaks with Diane Horn about the problems with economic growth and the benefits of a steady state economy.