Wise Response submission to the National Adaptation Plan 2022
The Wise Response Society has submitted to the Ministry for the Environment on the draft National Adaptation Plan. The submission is available as a PDF here.
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WR Workshop: How to respond to a future with less abundant resources?
A Recording of the zoom meeting is available from Victoria University here.
Book Review: Herman Daly’s Economics for a Full World: His Life and Ideas
This is available as a PDF here. BOOK REVIEW: HERMAN DALY’S ECONOMICS FOR A FULL WORLD: His Life and IdeasBook by Peter A. VictorReview by Jack Santa BarbaReview by Jack Santa Barbara, Ph.D. New Zealand WEALL Hub Everyone in the Wellbeing Economy movement has an intellectual indebtedness to the work of Herman Daly, often cited …
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Ethical and Environmental Standards for Investment in New Zealand
Wise Response has written to the manager of the Financial Markets at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, outlining appropriate settings for Investment with Ethical and Environmental Standards. The letter is available as a PDF here.
What is the Great Simplification?
Wise Response recommends this website with a series of podcasts and episodes exploring themes around degrowth. The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens is a podcast that explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Conversation topics will span human behavior, monetary/economic systems, energy, ecology, geopolitics and the environment. The goal of the show is to …
WR Open Letter on the Values of Trade, Procurement and Investment
Wise Response has sent an Open Letter to the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern. The letter is available as a PDF here. Correspondence from Hon Dr David Clark is available as a PDF here.
Open letter – The Most Important Mesage for NZ to Deliver at COP-26
Wise Response has sent an open letter to the Rt Hon Prime Minister Ardern and the Hon James Shaw, Minister of Climate Change. The letter is available as a PDF here and is reproduced below. 10 October 2021 Rt Hon Prime Minister Ardern and the Hon James Shaw, Minister of Climate Change ParliamentWellington, 6160 Dear …
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Workshop – Are there biophysical limits to growth?
Slides and Video of the Worshop are available now: Recording of the zoom meeting is available from Victoria University here, or on Youtube here. The Speakers slides are available here: Associate Professor Simon Michaux (Geology) – pdf. Professor Steve Keen (Economics) – powerpoint. Professor Tim Jackson (Economics) – pdf Professor Susan …
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A Better Future for Aotearoa – NZ Science Festival – Audio
Solving the climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis – at the same time! The discussion about creative solutions to the climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis and other problems caused by economic growth is available to listen to here. The speakers include American journalist and educator Richard Heinberg, who has written extensively on energy, economic, and …
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An appeal for economic transformation at President Biden’s Climate Summit
An appeal for economic transformation at President Biden’s Climate Summit, 22-23 April 2021. ‘President Biden and distinguished state leaders. ‘In his encyclical letter of 2015 – on care for our common home – Pope Francis exhorted: “Many things have to change course, but it is we human beings above all who need to change.” ‘He …
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