Tag: Economics
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TreeHugger Radio: A Final Episode and Nine of Our Favorite Moments With Amazing People
In this final installment we step back through time into some of our favorite conversations.
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How ETSY Is Changing the Way We All Do Business
The online craft market place becomes a certified B Corp, and announces $40m in new funding. This could be a great thing for all of us.
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As Rio+20 Approaches, Pleas For Less Language Squabbling & More Respecting Indigenous Wisdom
Check out these two important pieces from Kelly Rigg and David Korten on where the Rio+20 negotiations are and aren't heading.
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Cooperative Urban Farming in Kentucky, Inspired By Latin America
The cooperative tradition dates back centuries in many Latin American countries. Now migrants are applying its principles to urban farming in the United States.
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Seventies Back-to-the-Land Pioneer Explores the Tiny House Movement
A former shelter editor for the Whole Earth Catalog discusses the new wave of the tiny house movement.
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How Solar is Giving African Kids Super Powers
Cheap LED lanterns are transforming lives in Africa, allowing communities to leapfrog 20th Century technology and enter the solar age.
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Solar Sales Drop 90% After UK Subsidies Slashed
When it comes to Government support for renewables, "how dependable" is at least as important a question as "how much".
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Is Collaborative Consumption a Movement or a Business Model?
The sharing economy is built more on convenience and the desire to save money than a mission to save the world. But does that matter?
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No Money? Time Trading Offers an Accessible Alternative
With time trading, people offer services based on an exchange of hours - not money. But it's still economic activity.
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To Envision Sustainable Business, We Must Reimagine Our Economy
Sustainability professionals must move beyond specific green initiatives and start asking tougher questions about systemic change.
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How the Law Stops Us Sharing, And What We Can Do To Change It
The sharing economy is getting more and more attention, but laws drawn up for traditional business don't always adapt well to informal sharing or collaborative consumption.
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How Collaborative Consumption Could Help Shrink Government
Could sharing more be central to achieving the Right's biggest dream?
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How Happy Is Bhutan, Really? Gross National Happiness Unpacked
Gross National Happiness has lots of cache in the environmental and social justice community, but how is Bhutan actually calculating it and how well are they doing?
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UK Fuel Crisis Makes Case for Electric Vehicles and Shed Offices
As British fuel pumps ran dry thanks to government incompetence, some motorists were left completely untouched. Will this help kickstart the electric car market?
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How Smart Meters Transform Our Relationship to Energy
With monthly energy bills, it's hard to visualize how behavior impacts cost. But when we see the impact in real time, our behavior changes. A lot.
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Airbnb to Owe City Hotel Tax in San Francisco
The pioneering site that brokers accommodation in private homes must now pay city hotel tax in San Francisco, according to a new ruling. What does this mean for collaborative consumption?
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Best of Green: Business
From best community advocate to best business protest, watchdog, non-profit, and more, the results are in for our 2012 Best of Green Awards in Business.
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Peru: The Only Nation in the World Hitting the Sustainability Sweet Spot
Peru is the only nation both meeting the UNDP definition of high human development while at the same time consuming natural resources in a globally sustainable way.
