by kultur.work | Jul 21, 2020
Roman Krznaric’s new book, The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World, explores six ways we can expand our time horizons to confront the great long-term challenges of our age, from the climate crisis to threats from new technologies and the next...
by kultur.work | Jul 7, 2020
In #futuregen, Jane Davidson explains how, as Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing in Wales, she proposed what became the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 – the first piece of legislation in history to place regenerative and...
by kultur.work | May 3, 2018
A new edition of Prosperity Without Growth—the landmark work on post-growth economics by Prof Tim Jackson—was launched on 19 December. The publication of Prosperity without Growth in 2009 marked a critical intervention in the sustainability debate. Tim Jackson openly...
by Graham Smith | Mar 1, 2018
Review by Graham Smith While there is widespread recognition that democratic governments are generally poor at dealing with long-term issues, there is a lack of systematic analysis of the variety of causes and responses to short-termism. Jonathan Boston, Professor of...
by kultur.work | Dec 3, 2015
With their Research Handbook on Climate Governance, Karin Bäckstrand and Eva Lövbrand assembled a cutting-edge collection of essays that critically look at the changing landscape of climate governance after the 2009 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen....
by kultur.work | Oct 27, 2015
Anderson, Kevin (2015): Duality in Climate Science. In: Nature Geoscience, 12 October 2015. The economic and political paradigm in which our democracy operates inhibits climate scientists, so they have to tone down the dangers ahead. In his commentary Duality in...
by Graham Smith | Apr 16, 2015
Runciman’s The Confidence Trap is a sobering account of how democracies have muddled through a variety of crises in the 20th century. According to Runciman, it is this capacity to ‘muddle through’ that makes democracy distinctive and has allowed it to outperform...
by Andrea Westall | Apr 16, 2015
Governance, democracy and sustainable development: Moving beyond the impasse edited by Meadowcroft J, Langhelle O, and Ruud A, Edward Elgar (2012) This edited book clearly sets out the challenges of reconciling sustainable development with democratic systems,...
by Ann Thorpe | Jan 30, 2015
This report reveals how a call for sharing is central to a growing worldwide movement of global citizens. From the executive summary “The principle of sharing is often central to efforts for progressive change in almost every field of endeavour. But this mutual...
by Ann Thorpe | Jan 14, 2015
An inspiring story of a young man creating 200 schools around the world and steps that anyone can take to a more significant, successful life. Published by Atria Books. pencilsofpromise.org/popbook
