Welcome to the Canadian Society for Ecological economics!
Economic Literacy for a Green Economy
Economic Literacy for a Green Economy is a great new online course put together by the Sustainability Network. Economic Literacy for a Green Economy consists of a series of six modules that will build organizational capacity by increasing the knowledge and understanding of economic concepts and their role in supporting a green economy.…
Economies in an age of limits: A time for (R)evolution!
We are happy to announce that the next Canadian Ecological Economics Conference will take place next year in Montreal. CANSEE and E4A invite you to open your agenda books and circle 19-22 October 2017. Join us in rethinking our economies by considering the biophysical limits and the need for ecological and social justice.…
Endowed Professor in Ecological Economics & Environmental Policy position
Endowed Assistant Professor in Ecological Economics & Environmental Policy Loyola University Chicago’s (LUC), Institute of Environmental Sustainability (IES) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track endowed position at the rank of Assistant Professor/Advanced Assistant Professor, beginning fall 2017. LUC is ranked 7th greenest campus in the U.S., and the IES is…
Making Change through Business, Art and Politics: Lawrence Paul Luxweluptun at SKWACHÀYS Lodge
If you missed him at the MOA, come and meet this remarkable changemaker, artist, and activist, #RENAMEBC and mingle with your peeps! CANSEE members get 30% off! (E-mail: kkish@cansee.ca for the code) Making Change through Business, Art and Politics: Lawrence Paul Luxweluptun at SKWACHÀYS Lodge presented by the Board of Change…
Mark Blaug Student Essay Prize 2016 – Submissions have opened!
Devised in collaboration with the Foundation for European Economic Development (FEED), we are proud to announce that the Mark Blaug Student Essay Prize is open for submissions! “Rather than applying economics to a particular problem, eligible essays must reflect critically on the state of economics itself, as Mark Blaug did…
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…
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)…
Can research in political psychology be harnessed to speed uptake of ecological economic theory?
By Tom Green (Note: An earlier version of this piece appeared in the CANSEE Newsletter in 2013). We associate truth with convenience – with what most closely accords with self-interest and personal wellbeing or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life. – John Kenneth Galbraith Almost…
David Suzuki’s Blue Dot Tour
Canadians enjoy freedom of expression, equal protection from discrimination and the right to life, liberty and security under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They do not, however, have the right to drink clean water, breathe clean air or simply live on clean land. The right to a healthy environment…
It’s Time for a New Economics of Sustainability by Dan O’Neill
Ecological economists have long argued that the pursuit of never-ending economic growth is a dead-end strategy. One of the most basic insights of the discipline is that the economy is a subsystem of the environment. All of the inputs to the economy come from the environment, and all of the…