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Steven Joyce doesn’t understand economics

Blog entry by Nathan Argent | September 4, 2013

Yesterday economic development minster Steven Joyce showed that he doesn’t understand economics . Which must make his job a little difficult. Well, either he doesn’t understand economics, or he’s rather ham-fistedly trying to...

Future Investment - Energy

Publication | August 1, 2007 at 23:30

This report shows that investment in renewables pays off quite quickly due to massive savings in fuel costs. In fact, a 'business as usual' mix in the world global power generation sector would result in 10 times higher fuel costs, when compared...

Ecological bankruptcy

Blog entry by Rex Weyler | May 6, 2016

There may not be a single large-scale industry or multi-national corporation on Earth that is genuinely profitable if they had to account for their ecological impact. A recent UN-supported report shows that the world's 3,000 largest...

No more excuses: why leaders can save the climate

Blog entry by Nathan Argent | April 29, 2015

Last week, a new joint report crafted by the pointy-headed people at Bloomberg and the United Nations has declared that the uptake in clean energy globally has reached 'industrial' scale. Power sources like solar and wind are now...

Ecology and Money

Blog entry by Rex Weyler | October 8, 2015

On Friday, September 17, the US Federal Reserve blinked in the face of unrelenting, global economic malaise. This private bank, which possesses the monopoly to print US money, had promised to raise interest rates a paltry 1/4-percent,...

Deep Green: Entropy and Ecology

Blog entry by Rex Weyler | December 22, 2010

Deep Green is Rex Weyler's monthly column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own. December 2010 “ If you don’t have some...

Connecting climate change and economic recovery

Blog entry by bunny | March 10, 2009

In this video the economist Nicholas Stern discusses the 'economic downturn' and its effect on the climate change agenda. The economic slowdown has prompted some public and private leaders to question whether the...

The clean green principled economy (1/3)

Blog entry by Maya McNicoll | January 29, 2013

New Zealand is a commodities exporter…okay okay, I know that’s not a super sexy opening line, but don’t worry this isn’t an economics lecture, well it kind of is, but I’ll try and keep it brief and on point. New Zealand makes her...

The nuts and bolts of building a new clean economy

Blog entry by Nathan Argent | February 14, 2013

Earlier this week, we launched a report that showed that our clean energy sector could become the beating heart of our nation’s economy whilst creating many tens of thousands of jobs. Here's the infographic , the report , and the ...

Brownlee and oil – relics of a dying age

Blog entry by sboxer | June 2, 2010

In the film Amazing Grace  set in the 19th century there is a scene where the British Parliament is debating the end of slavery. Members of that Parliament argue that the end of slavery would have massive economic impacts that would...

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