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Paul Gilding talks about Limits to Growth

The 40th anniversary of Limits to Growth is a good time to share Paul Gilding‘s TED talk – the Earth is Full. Paul Gilding is an australian environmentalist and entrepeneur who recently wrote the Great Disruption, a good book based … Continue reading

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Links – reviews

1. Cosma Shalizi discusses recent paper in nature on networks and their controlability, and responses to it. 2. Tom Slee reviews network sociologist Ducan Watts – everything is obvious if you already know the answer. 3. Misha Glenny, author of … Continue reading

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History of The Limits to Growth

In the new general sustainability science journal Solutions, sustainability researchers Jørgen Nørgård, John Peet, Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir provide their take on the history of the response to the controversial and influential environmental study Limits to Growth in The History of … Continue reading

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Dennis Meadows on Limits to Growth

A video of Dennis Meadows, co-author of Limits to Growth, from the 2009 World Economic Forum meetings in Davos meeting where he reflects on economic growth, oil, and decline. via the Oil Drum

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Dennis Meadows awarded Japan Prize for work on Limits to Growth

Dennis Meadows has been awarded the Japan Prize for his work on Limits to Growth.  The Prize Committee writes: [he] served as Research Director for the project on “The Limits to Growth,” for the Club of Rome in 1972. Employing … Continue reading

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