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Motivations for New Currency Design

Those developing new currencies will want to explore the various motivations behind what they're doing and set out for themselves - ideally explicitly - their balance of motives. Graham Barnes identifies some of the main 'flavours' of motivation.
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 November 19, 2015  Commentary, Fair Green Money 

The four questions we should ask about emissions cuts, and CapGlobalCarbon’s answers

Griffin Carpenter recently posted a blog article on the New Economics Foundation website which brings up some good questions with regard to emissions cuts. Caroline Whyte provides some answers from the CGC perspective.
November 4, 2015  Commentary 

The attention seeking economy, information and the manufacture of ignorance

In this chapter from his book Credo, Brain Davey describes how "much of what we take for granted is actually better understood as 'consensus trance'. To orientate to the world properly we need to have a proper feel for the huge amount of what we don’t know – and there are multiple categories of unknowing."
October 30, 2015  Credo 

The Paris agenda: leave fossil fuels in the ground, auction permits, protect people

Mike Sandler writes that the math is clear: there is a carbon bubble. The science on climate change indicates that there is no time for low initial national "contributions" with "ratcheting up ambition" after 5 or 10 year review periods.
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bubble climate emissions justice price
 October 29, 2015  Cap and Share, Commentary, News 

Living in the anthropocene – a frame for new activism

Mark Garavan writes "we have emerged from the geological epoch of the Holocene into a new epoch designated as the Anthropocene. This notion of the Anthropocene refers to a profound realisation that human aggregate activity is now the single most decisive force shaping the planet."
October 26, 2015  Commentary 

Debt Ceiling Means Another Chance to Discuss the Trillion Dollar Coin

A new HuffPost article by Mike Sandler challenges the mainstream view of national debt, and brings Cap and Share into the argument too: “The UN climate change conference in Paris this December is ostensibly about climate change, but under the green mantle it is really an economics conference. Climate change is a symptom of an out-of-control, carbon-addicted economic system”.…

October 19, 2015  News Digest 

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