READING ROOM.
LINKS TO ARTICLES, LECTURES, FILM CLIPS AND AUDIO OF EMINENT THINKERS EXPRESSING IDEAS YOU WON'T FIND ON FREE TO AIR TELEVISION OR THE NATIONAL DAILY'S
Category ;
Economics;
Dr Robert Costanza, founder of the Centre for Ecological Economics at a recent (March 2009) Greens conference in New Zealand. He discusses the current financial crisis and the opportunitites that are available. GDP or GPI ? How will the future economic system look?
"Socialism has failed. Now capitalism is bankrupt. So what comes next?"
Eric Hobsbawm, respected Marxist historian examines possibilities for future political systems.
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/48748
"The beguiling veneer of normalcy" Richard Heinberg comment on current trends.
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3941
Herman Daly - "Towards a Steady State Economy".- One of the greatest economic thinkers of our time.
Environment
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2009/2561676.htm
Bill McKibbon, author, activist, creator of "Step It Up" campaigns in the U.S. and the new campaign http://www.350.org/ speaks to Phillip Adams on the 'Late Night Live' radio programme during his recent visit to Australia. (Audio MP3).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/dec/08/monbiot-yvo-de-boer-climate
Monbiot Meets, a series of interviews by George Monbiot with the men and women at the top of the tree. This interview with Yvo de Boer
In the first of a remarkable series of video interviews, Britain's leading green commentator, George Monbiot, charges the UN's leading climate change official with lacking ambition for a global emissions deal, and takes him to task over expensive carbon offset schemes and his support for the US president, George Bush.
