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Navigating the Anthropocene: Towards an Alternative Modernity for an Era of Limits

By Stephen Quilley and Katie Kish Our programme of research starts from two premises – that there are biophysical limits to growth and that growth is intrinsic to capitalist development. This tension between ecology and economics, between the integrity of the biophysical life support systems of the biosphere and modern civilization, suggests a series of …

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Green Prosperity: From the Global Consumer Society to the Networked reMaker Society

By Katie Kish, Stephen Quilley and Jason Hawreliak This article describes a Metcalf-funded research project investigating Maker culture as the basis for a relocalized, community-based green economy. (Green Prosperity and the (Re)Maker Society: Integrating the low growth economy with community self-development, artisanal skills and enhanced cultural participation (Metcalf Foundation, $38,000) – Stephen Quilley (PI), Jason …

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