Feasta – The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability

Feasta online event: Living well in a time of crisis

This Feasta workshop on March 23, facilitated by John Sharry, looked at our emotional response to the crises that we are facing and how we can ensure that we are not disabled but, instead, maintain a creative, thoughtful, empathic response as we navigate our way forward.

Permission to Panic – Movie Review of “Don’t Look Up”

Mike Sandler explains why this movie has struck a chord with many climate scientists, 'the modern Cassandras', and suggests that Feasta's activities and Theory of Change might help those who are looking up to figure out what to do next.

WEAll Hub Campfire Event: the role of the artist in catalysing a Wellbeing Economy in Ireland

This event focussed on a Social Imaginary project which the WEAll Hub of Ireland’s core members have been discussing. The project is a co-production process – a community of practice of artists, activists and researchers exploring how we might imagine the wellbeing economy.

Feasta 2021 Annual Report

In 2021 we co-organised six online events that explored banking, basic income, biodiversity and the new WEAll hub for Ireland, we made a series of submissions, continued our successful podcast series with EHFF, published many blog articles, and sent a sizeable youth delegation to the COP-26.

Podcast: a small farm future

UK-based smallholder Chris Smaje speaks with Seán Ó Conlaín and Caroline Whyte about agroecology, the need to balance different forms of property ownership, and the globalism/localism debate.

Healthy Habitats

"Whereas carbon savings offer only abstract feedback images of graphs and charts, habitat restoration immediately provides beautiful places to visit, living trees and other plants and animals to watch and enjoy, as well as near-term tangible benefits," writes Feidhlim Harty.

Online discussion, May 18: Cross-sectoral economic measures to support biodiversity in Ireland

Online discussion: moving the economic goalposts of Irish agriculture, April 28

Theda Skocpol names the problem, and the solution involves climate dividends

Podcast: problems of U.S. climate politics (and maybe some solutions?)