March 22, 2010
The other day I was teaching an introductory course on Sustainaibility Management to PhD students (mostly Engineers, some MBAs, some Computer Scientists). This is always an exciting experience, many different rationalities and perspectives on the issue. We discussed a case study, the sustainability report of BMW, and some important realities of corporate sustainability became clear [...]
February 19, 2010
In a recent blog entry, Saamah Abdallah commented on some remarks made by Duncan Green on the Oxfam blogs, as regards degrowth policy. Duncan’s original post was critical on the practical conclusions of a workshop on degrowth in London earlier this year. Myself, I was giving a talk there on “Degrowth and the Firm” and [...]
February 15, 2010
I was just reading an article in the newly established Ecological Economics Review on economic growth, written by Peter A. Victor. In this article, Victor is revisiting Kenneth Boulding‘s remarks on the economy of the coming spaceship Earth, focusing on economic growth and environmental impact. He defines the concept of green growth as an economic [...]
