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The Budget

By Jolyon | 5 June, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Economics, Environment |

A budget is simply about prioritizing to enable us to live within the limits of our recourses. For any complaints there have been about the budget, it has to be …

Stewardship in a “full” world - by Robert Costanza

By Jolyon | 24 March, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Economics |

The economies of China and India are growing at a rapid clip. But these nations seem to be making the same environmental mistakes that Western countries made during their development—this …

Ecological Economics and Well-being

By Jolyon | 18 March, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Economics |

GDP is often acknowledged to be a blunt instrument for measuring economic well-being and yet it is still used as a proxy measure for exactly that. One of the key …

Kingdom Economy?

By Jolyon | 13 March, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Church, Climate Change, Economics |

If we are to respond to climate change, peak oil, or a spiritual malaise caused by mass consumerism, at some point a confrontation with economics seems inevitable There is global …

Cruise Control: The cost of travel

By Anne | 1 December, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Climate Change, Economics, End of cheap oil, Transport |

‘ >Driving down motoring costs

Car travel has become cheaper and cheaper in the UK over the past few decades, so no wonder road transport is keeps rising. I …

Buying civilisation

By Anne | 4 November, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Economics |

I liked this quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes, the famous US Supreme Court Judge, who said:

‘I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilisation.’

Of course some of …

“Charity”: Donation or giving back what is rightfully theirs?

By Anne | 16 October, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Economics, Politics |

I was emailed a pretty challenging quote today :
“When we give to the poor we are not being generous; we are merely returning to them that which we have withheld …

Petrol is cheap

By Anne | 9 October, 2008 | 6 Comments | Posted in Economics |

Bottled water is more expensive that petrol. Isn’t that weird?