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Rewarded to destroy wealth? Recycling has higher social return than banking

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Posted in Economics, Environment | No Comments »

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="320" caption="Photo: Dave Ciplet"][/caption] There are lots of new approaches about how economics should be reformed in order to allow prices to tell the truth, internalising future or environmental costs, integrating scarcity in the equation, new indicators of ...

ECONOMY – ECOLOGY = 0

Thursday, November 26th, 2009 Posted in Economics, Environment | No Comments »

Just came back from the Philippines and I could see with my own eyes a very clear example of how the environment is the basis of the economy. Manila suffered severe floods a month ago: 4 typhoons visited the archipelago and almost all the ...