Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity

Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity https://cusp.ac.uk Prosperity Matters | What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental, social and economic limits?—We work with people, policy and business to address this question, developing pragmatic steps towards a shared and lasting prosperity. Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:44:55 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://cusp.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/cropped-CUSO-fravicon-32x32.png Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity https://cusp.ac.uk 32 32 125235202 Prosperity as Health—Recentring Care to Guide Health System Reform | Working paper by Tim Jackson https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/health/wp45/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:00:20 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71445

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From Growth to Care—Tim Jackson in conversation with Jen Morgan | London 18 Mar 2026 https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/health/tj-from-growth-to-care-waterstones/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:16:35 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70366

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Why we need an economy of care for a liveable future | Keynote at University of Riga, Mar 2026 https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-keynote-riga-uni-2026/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:43:29 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71500

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SME Green Transition and Job Skills in London | London Councils Green Economy Programme Reports https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/reports-london-sme-green-transition/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:01:28 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71391

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Does economic growth harm the planet? | BBC Sunday Morning Live debate with Tim Jackson, Daze Aghaji and Andy Mayer https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-bbcsml-03-26/ Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:55:25 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71403

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Supporting SME Action on Nature and Biodiversity in Fashion and Textiles | Report https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/p/report-aw-sme-action-fashion-textiles/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:26:42 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71358

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Materialistic Lifestyles as Facilitators of Environmental Violence | Book Chapter by Amy Isham https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/ai-book-chapter-materialistic-lifestyles-environmental-violence/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:10:00 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71346

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Green Tech for Africa Startup and Scaleup Accelerator https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/p/sme-finbio-accelerator2026/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:05:00 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71314

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Why New Economic Thinking Can—and Must—Begin at the Margins | Blog by Dario Leoni https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/blog-dl-londa-school-of-economics/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:35:21 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71259

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In praise of natality | CUSP Newsletter, January 2026 https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/newsletter-jan-2026/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:19:06 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71254

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Prosperity as health: Why we need an economy of care for a liveable future | BMJ article by Tim Jackson https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-bmj2026/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:22:50 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71241

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Town and Parish Councils and Devolution: Small Scale, Big Potential | Blog by Amy Burnett et al https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/p/blog-ab-town-parish-councils-devolution/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:42:28 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71225

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Early-stage nature positive innovation finance in the UK | Report https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/finance/report-mdx-cleanfin-smes/ Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:08:56 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71167

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Cry of the Bittern | BBC radio drama series by Tim Jackson re-released as audiobook https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/tj-cry-of-the-bittern/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:52:54 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71177

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Health system resilience and the health impacts of environmental degradation: A global analysis | Journal paper https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/health/paper-se-health-system-resilience/ Sun, 14 Dec 2025 08:47:29 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71154

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Can we really have green growth? | Comment by Simon Mair https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/blog-sm-can-we-really-have-green-growth/ Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:29:30 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71209

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The high price of cheap food—who’s counting the cost of our national diet? | By Tim Jackson https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/health/blog-tj-ffcc-net-drain/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:38:41 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71132

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Assessing public support for degrowth: survey-based experimental and predictive studies | Journal paper https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/paper-dk-public-support-degrowth/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:59:52 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71083

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Exploring the corporate body | Blog by Kate Swade https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/blog-sk-exploring-the-corporate-body/ Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:53:44 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=71023

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Monetary Policy for a Just Macrofinancial Regime—CUSP partnering in new P4NE-funded project https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/finance/aj-news-p4ne-project/ Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:31:00 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70996

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The Quest for Prosperity | Tim Jackson’s Foreword to Richard Douglas’ new book The Meaning of Growth https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-quest-for-prosperity/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:11:46 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70978

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Transformative Education and Climate Action: The Case for Green Jobs | Report https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/rb-bkmc-green-jobs-report/ Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:22:17 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70964

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The Care Economy: Redefining Prosperity in a World Beyond Growth | ERC webinar with Tim Jackson, 24 Nov 2025 https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-erc-webinar-nov-2025/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:08:06 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70955

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Action to Transform the UK Food Systems: innovations for an alternative | Blog by Fergus Lyon https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/food/blog-fl-tkufs-27-actions/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:40:50 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70937

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Why care is the foundation of a thriving society | Mindvalley Book Club with Tim Jackson https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-mindvalley-bookclub/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:03:00 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70922

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Gen Z and sustainability | Blog by Kate Burningham and Anastasia Loukianov https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/blog-kb-gen-z-and-sustainability/ Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:42:29 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70910

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Learning to walk lightly through the world: Lessons from Amazonian Indigenous praxis | Journal paper https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/nature/paper-pe-learning-to-walk-lightly/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:10:43 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70884

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Climate denial and the defence of modernity | Blog by Richard McNeill Douglas https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/m/blog-rd-growth-defence-of-modernity/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:25:55 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70864

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Video: Can there be prosperity without growth? | Keynote by Tim Jackson at Utrecht University, Sept 2025 https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-keynote-utrecht-2025/ Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:21:05 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70841

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Video: A World That Cares | How the Light Gets In Festival with Tim Jackson and Catherine Liu https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/m/tj-htlgi-2025-video/ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:36:15 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70829

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The Meaning of Growth—Anti-Environmentalist Rhetoric and the Defence of Modernity | Book by Richard Douglas https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/m/rd-book-meaning-of-growth/ Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:58:31 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70816

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Re-imagining a new economy that works for all people and the planet | Working Paper https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/wp44/ https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/wp44/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2025 05:00:05 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70712 https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/wp44/feed/ 1

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Re-imagining a New Economy | Webinar with Ben Kellard et al, 6/7 Oct 2025 https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/event-ne-oct2025/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 06:04:00 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70779

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Video | The Care Economy: Tim Jackson in conversation with Kate Raworth https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/the-care-economy-tim-jackson-in-conversation-with-kate-raworth/ Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:52:33 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70634

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We Need To Talk About… Cheap Food | Podcast with Tim Jackson and Emily Norton, hosted by Will Evans https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/food/tj-ffcc-podcast-cheap-food/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:49:54 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70705

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State of the Art | CUSP Newsletter, September 2025 https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/newsletter-sept-2025/ Tue, 09 Sep 2025 10:42:29 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70688

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Labour productivity gains or offshoring? Implications for post-growth proposals on the future of work | Journal paper https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s2/paper-lg-productivity-offshore/ Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:51:02 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70677

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Time Use in a Post-Growth World: Towards Sustainable Wellbeing | Paper by Seán Fearon et al https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s2/sf-paper-postgrowth-time-use/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:32:02 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70652

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Going Steady with Herman Daly | Cities 1.5 Podcast Series https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/going-steady-with-herman-daly-podcast-series/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:38:35 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70660

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Is Prosperity Possible Without Growth? | Intelligence Squared podcast with Tim Jackson https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-podcast-intelligence-squared/ Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:52:14 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70604

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A world that might just work | Free Forum podcast with Tim Jackson https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/m/tj-podcast-free-forum-2025/ Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:23:00 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70590

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Flow in the 21st Century: Exploring Modern Activities and Environments | Journal paper https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/health/paper-ai-flow-in-the-21st-century/ Wed, 13 Aug 2025 06:47:00 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70581

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Imagining the good life in Stoke-on-Trent: Connecting memories, nostalgia and utopia | Journal paper https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/paper-kb-sv-good-life-stoke-on-trent/ Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:30:30 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70565

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Creating a Care Economy | The Deep Dive podcast with Tim Jackson https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-podcast-deep-dive-2025/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 09:48:21 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70554

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Green Farm Africa | CUSP researchers leading new project bridging green tech and cooperatives https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/p/news-green-farm-africa/ Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:34:47 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70518

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Public debt and the post-growth challenge: the case for a flexible monetary and fiscal policy framework | Working Paper https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/wp43/ Wed, 23 Jul 2025 07:32:12 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70500

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The Fast and the Furious | Blog by Smith Mordak https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/blog-sm-the-fast-and-the-furious/ Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:58:47 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70483

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Fit for whose future? The Mary Poppins moment is over | Blog by Tim Jackson https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/blog-tj-fit-for-whose-future/ Sat, 05 Jul 2025 19:54:56 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70465

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From Campus to Capital: Empowering Emerging Nature-Positive Startups | Blog by Robyn Owen, Amy Burnett and Dougal Fleming https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/p/sme-finbio-acc-2025/ Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:36:00 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70428

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Prosperity in a Careless Age | CUSP Newsletter, June 2025 https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/newsletter-jun-2025/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:02:29 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70410

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The Political Economy of Care | Economics for Rebels podcast with Tim Jackson https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-economics-for-rebels-2025/ Mon, 09 Jun 2025 18:37:36 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70395

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African Resourcefulness: Leading Sustainable Solutions from Self to Society https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aesw2025/ Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:17:29 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70382

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A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth | Nature Article by Dario Krpan et al https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/journal-paper-dk-behavioural-research-degrowth/ Fri, 30 May 2025 15:17:32 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70351

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Marketing sustainable lifestyles | Book chapter in Routledge Companion to Marketing and Sustainability https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/p/book-ch-om_marketing-sustainable-lifestyles/ Thu, 22 May 2025 09:18:20 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70283

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Why we need to adopt a Care Economy | C40 Cities podcast with Tim Jackson https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-c40cities-podcast-2025/ Mon, 19 May 2025 15:30:19 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70329

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A World That Cares | Tim Jackson at the #HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Hay-on-Wye 23-26 May 2025 https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj_howthelightgetsin2025/ Tue, 13 May 2025 14:41:45 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70316

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Green healing: Ecotherapy as a transformative model of health and social care https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/nature/paper-ai-green-healing/ Mon, 12 May 2025 09:01:55 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70294

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Environments and the experience of flow: A scoping review | Journal paper https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/paper-mc-environments-flow/ Wed, 07 May 2025 15:05:20 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70273

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Resident funding and care inequality: evidence from England’s two-tier care system | Journal paper https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/health/paper-ccw-two-tier-care/ Mon, 05 May 2025 20:08:20 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70236

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Rural Planning Futures—Principles, Policy and Practice in the UK and Ireland | Edited Collection https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/p/book-ab-rural-planning/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:46:00 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70264

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Corporate Bodies | Podcast Series with Mark Walton and Kate Swade https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/corporate-bodies/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:06:42 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70180

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This is an act of care | Keynote by Tim Jackson at the #SCORAI 2025 conference https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-scorai2025/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:17:00 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70219

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Green Horizons Symposium and Workshop | Reflections by Joanna Masangkay https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/p/blog-jm-green-horizons-symposium/ Sat, 12 Apr 2025 08:35:00 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70060

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What We Care For | CUSP Newsletter, April 2025 https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/newsletter-apr-2025/ Wed, 09 Apr 2025 09:38:25 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70159

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Another Age of Anxiety: Psychological Distress and the ‘Asset Economy’ | Journal Paper by Will Davies https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/m/paper-wd-another-age-of-anxiety/ Sun, 06 Apr 2025 08:22:19 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70150

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Arts-based approaches to democracy: Reinvigorating the public sphere | Journal paper https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/a/paper-mh-mc-arts-based-democracy/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:03:23 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70138

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Economic impacts of energy transitions: insights from a new economic model | Blog by Andrew Jackson https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s2/blog-aj-transim2/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:20:57 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70049

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Arts and creative approaches to mainstreaming sustainable consumption | #SCORAI2025 https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/scorai2025/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:56:00 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=69082

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Greener cities for all: creating urban spaces that work for people and biodiversity | Panel discussion, London 20 Mar 2025 https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/nature/greener-cities-for-all-20-mar-2025/ Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:11:05 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=69908

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Video: The Care Economy | Book launch with Tim Jackson, Michael Dixon, Sam Everington and Zoe Williams https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/lrb2025/ Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:59:00 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=69814

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The Care Economy | By Tim Jackson https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/health/the-care-economy/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:05:18 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=69448

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Calling for growth is not the same as delivering it | Tim Jackson for The New Statesman https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-nsm-oped/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:44:52 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=70001

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Cooperative ways to help farmers benefit from restoring nature | Report and Policy Briefing https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/p/paper-agri-food-mutuals-and-nature-markets/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 11:00:04 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=69961

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When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: ‘Why, and for whom?’—Rowan Williams for The Guardian https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/blog-rw-guardian-oped-postgrowth/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:08:30 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=69949

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Between hope and despair: Thinking about the future in 2025 | Blog by Arthur Lauer https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/blog-al-thinking-about-the-future-in-2025/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:52:00 +0000 https://cusp.ac.uk/?p=69919

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