Here is the link to a weekly newsletter on the green job guarantee: Green Job Guarantee
Scoop.it Land Value Tax
I am a very reluctant Facebook user but I had to sign up to use this very useful tool ‘Scoop.it’ that Facebook controls. Using it, I have set up a little newsletter on Land Value Tax with stories gleaned from all over the world that I will update weekly.
Steve Keen in Extended Inteview on BBC Hardtalk : Brilliant!
The Fiscal Summit Counter-Narrative: Part Two, Defining Fiscal Sustainability
New blog source Corrente I found that is spreading Modern Monetary Theory ideas. It gives a well recorded account of a Fiscal Counter Summit with all of the MMT big hitters. The second part includes Bill Mitchell which I excerpt here to give some southern hemisphere balance on our Smart Taxes blog. He says in short "the sustainable goal of the economy should be the zero waste of the people in the economy… . as a consequence of the way we structure our economy and the way that policy intervenes to manipulate the economy.”
New Feasta submission to the Consultation on Climate Change Policy
Feasta recently made a submission to the Irish government's Consultation on Climate Change policy. It addresses fossil fuel emissions, carbon cycles and sinks, the transition to a sustainable economy and lastly the need for a climate law.
Report from the McPlanet conference
Broken promises and naive expectations - that's how many people at the McPlanet Conference held recently in Berlin clearly felt about the last two decades of global environmental policy. They believe that an imperfect-but-better alternative exists: protecting and enhancing the commons and community-based protection of biological resources worldwide, including in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa where land-grabbing is currently rife.
