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Feasta Annual Report 2024
This year's annual report summarises the work and achievements of Feasta in 2024, including the Rethinking Growth Conference. With a foreword by Mike Sandler, Chair of Board of Trustees.
Podcast: Perspectives on the Wellbeing Economy and Planetary Health from Mexico
David Somekh and Caroline Whyte speak with Simon Ticehurst, Advocacy and Movements Lead for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. They discuss how the wellbeing economy concept can help tackle the urgent challenges of planetary health.
Canada Put a Price on Carbon and Rebated Billions Back to Canadians. Here’s What Worked and Here’s What Went Wrong.
Carbon rebates, also known as carbon dividends, are regular payments made to households funded by carbon pricing revenue. This policy seems to have had positive effects for both the Canadian people and the environment —so why has it won so little public support? By Olivier Bradley.
As part of Feasta's activity in the Wellbeing Economy Ireland Hub, we co-organised and participated in this webinar on the role of Cultural Creatives in imagining a new economy. It featured a wide range of artists from around the island of Ireland.
Anne-Marie Fuller and Caroline Whyte from Feasta spoke about the Wellbeing Economy and international financial flows at this hybrid event, organised by the WEAll Ireland Hub and Cloughjordan Co-housing Cooperative.
The Yellow Vests Come to America
"Carbon dividends, and universal basic income, could provide a democratic form of populism that would stave off the move toward authoritarianism that is rising not just in America but around the world," writes Mike Sandler.
Beyond COP29: Is Cap and Share the Future of Climate Finance?
The COP29 proposal to use private investment to bolster climate finance is both unethical and impractical. Caroline Whyte suggests an alternative approach.
Podcast: Health and the Wellbeing Economy
David Somekh and Caroline Whyte speak with Dr Tony Holohan, the former Chief Medical Officer of Ireland and the director of the new One Health Centre at University College Dublin.

Podcast: Rethinking Marketing

Dr Sarah Browne of Trinity Business School discusses the reasons why she moved away from teaching 'mainstream' marketing, ways in which academia can help to bring about a wellbeing economy, and her impressions of the Rethinking Growth conference. Interview with Seán Ó Conláin.

How Can a Universal Basic Income Aid a Just Transition?

On September 24, Mike Sandler, Chair of Feasta, presented these slides as part of a NYC Climate Week panel hosted by Equal Right and others at the XX School of Social Work in New York City.

Feasta Annual Report 2023

Our latest Annual Report describes the range and scope of Feasta's work in 2023.

Irish Times letter on Rethinking Growth by Mark Garavan

This letter was written in response to the Irish Times article "Capitalism is killing the planet – but curtailing it is the discussion nobody wants to have" by Padraig Fogarty.

Podcast: Care and the Wellbeing Economy

Mark Garavan speaks with David Somekh about the power of dominant narratives and the need for a new vision of care.

Podcast: Avoiding polarisation

Seán Ó Conláin speaks with Philip McDonagh, who is a poet and Director of the Centre for Religion, Human Values, and International Relations at Dublin City University.

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