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Ben Gallant

Identity in crisis: Ecological Economists meet in Turku | Blog by Ben Gallant
Tim Jackson

‘Whatever it takes’—the new economics of system change | Blog by Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson

Green, prosperous and fair: a vision for Europe’s future | Blog by Tim Jackson
Richard Douglas

Economic growth—our modern day religion? | Blog by Richard McNeill Douglas
Fergus Lyon

Fostering Sustainable Practices—Can fashion designers create a more sustainable alternative future? | Blog by Fergus Lyon
Ian Christie | Kate Oakley

New Nature Writing: a force for sustainability and the common good? | Blog by Ian Christie and Kate Oakley
Adeyemi Adelekan

Developing differently: social enterprise innovations for the circular economy in Lagos Nigeria | Blog by Adeyemi Adelekan
Will Davies

‘This is not an elitist issue’—Navigating political divides, fast and slow | Blog by Will Davies
Denise Baden

Green Stories Writing: How writers are imagining a greener future | Guest blog by Denise Baden
Jeremy Williams | Katherine Trebeck

All grown up—making ourselves at home in a world beyond growth | Blog by Katherine Trebeck and Jeremy Williams
Aldersgate Group

Circular economy must remain a priority for Europe beyond the 2019 elections | Blog by Nick Molho
Richard Douglas

Hugh Montefiore and our present moment | Blog by Richard Douglas
Tim Jackson

Paradise Lost?—Existential anxiety and the iron cage of consumerism | Blog by Tim Jackson
Christine Corlet Walker

COP24: climate protesters must get radical and challenge economic growth | Blog by Christine Corlet Walker
Richard Douglas

The moral vision of environmental sceptics | Blog by Richard Douglas
Brian Doherty | Graeme Hayes | Joost de Moor

The ‘new’ climate politics of Extinction Rebellion? | Blog by Joost de Moor, Brian Doherty and Graeme Hayes
Teresa Belton

We need a new common consciousness of what’s necessary and possible to curb climate change. | Guest blog by Teresa Belton
Sarah Hafner

Giorgos Kallis’ Degrowth | A review by Sarah Hafner
Tim Jackson

How the light gets in—The science behind growth scepticism | Blog by Tim Jackson
Andrew Jackson | Frank van Lerven

A government is not a household | Blog by Frank van Lerven and Andrew Jackson
Dan Lyttleton | Mark Ball

This Must be the Place: An interview with Dan Lyttleton | By Mark Ball
Anastasia Loukianov

No hard feelings: Why environmental scholars can’t afford to dismiss children’s views of the good life | Blog by Anastasia Loukianov
Laurel Gallagher

The value of disused urban spaces for young people | Blog by Laurel Gallagher
Katherine Trebeck

Making transformation tangible: We all need to work together | Blog by Katherine Trebeck
Amy Isham

Investing psychic (not material) energy: flow experiences and sustainable prosperity | Blog by Amy Isham
Ellen Stenslie

CUSP Summer School 2018: Finding your place in the world of sustainable prosperity | Blog by Ellen Stenslie
Fergus Lyon | Lovisa Näslund

Trusting sustainable food production | Blog by Fergus Lyon and Lovisa Näslund
Marit Hammond

A Cultural Shift towards an Ecological Democracy | Blog by Marit Hammond
Alan Simpson

Embracing the Unthinkable | Guest blog by Alan Simpson
Richard Douglas

Work: a situation vacant | Blog by Richard Douglas
Simon Mair

Beyond 5%: why autonomy matters for workers’ wellbeing | Blog by Simon Mair
Victor Anderson

How hard is it to score the seventeenth goal? | Blog by Victor Anderson
Aled Jones

Monetising nature: a metaphor too far? | Blog by Aled Jones
Fergus Lyon

Exploring the natural capital debate—Creating a space for conversation about conservation across boundaries? | Blog by Fergus Lyon
Dan Nixon

Everything is extraordinary: Prosperity and the qualities of attention | Guest blog by Dan Nixon
Mark Ball

Social Darts | Blog by Mark Ball
Lucy Stone

From stranded workers to enabled workers—Lessons for a successful low carbon economy | Blog by Lucy Stone
Shirley Wardell

Can a play start a conversation and generate multi-disciplinary projects? | Guest blog by Shirley Wardell
Sue Venn

Making connections, experiencing flow, and countering consumption: crafting is more fun with less stuff | Blog by Sue Venn
Tim Jackson

‘Secular stagnation’ meets the ‘GDP fetish’ | Blog by Tim Jackson
Will Davies

T h i s is not all there is: Thinking utopias as ideas and practices | Blog by Will Davies
Tim Jackson

Confronting inequality: basic income and the right to work | Blog by Tim Jackson
Richard Douglas

Forging connections: Review of The Progress of this Storm and General Ecology | By Richard Douglas
Fergus Lyon

Filling the finance gap for early stage green innovations | Blog by Fergus Lyon
Jana Bacevic

Anthropocene Dreams — Review of The Ends of The World | By Jana Bacevic
Tim Jackson

‘Everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile’ | Blog by Tim Jackson
Fergus Lyon

Green Shoots from the Green Investment Bank, or a lost opportunity? | Blog by Fergus Lyon
Alan Simpson

Dance Me to the End of Love—An Economics for Tomorrow | Guest blog by Alan Simpson
Denise Baden

Writing A Better Future | Guest Blog by Denise Baden
Pete Barbrook-Johnson

Carillion may have collapsed, but public-private partnerships can be so much more | Guest blog by Pete Barbrook-Johnson
Will Davies

Sustainable What, Why, and for Whom: Learning from Moral Philosophy | Blog by Will Davies
Rebecca Willis

There’s no political pressure to act on climate. So how are MPs responding? | Blog by Rebecca Willis
Michael Wilkins

Green infrastructure: the landscape of sustainability | Guest blog by Michael Wilkins
Nick Taylor

Promethean Planetary Care – Review of Oliver Morton’s The Planet Remade | by Nick Taylor
Nick Taylor

Finance in the Anthropocene | Blog by Nick Taylor
Kate Burningham | Katt Skippon | Sue Venn | Tim Jackson

Prosperity Is…? | A Research Log by S Venn, K Burningham, K Skippon and T Jackson
Charles Seaford

Could the investment system contribute to sustainable prosperity? | Blog by Charles Seaford
Mark Ball

Not the City of Culture — Blog by Mark Ball
Jonathan Rowson

Christmas, Consumerism and Confusion | Blog by Jonathan Rowson
APPG secretariat | Tim Jackson

Social Limits To Growth – Lessons for a post-crash economy | Blog by Caroline Lucas and Tim Jackson
Simon Mair

In Defence of Degrowth — A Comment by Simon Mair
Anthony Killick

Meritocracy vs. Social Cohesion: A Review of The Acting Class (UK, 2017)—By Anthony Killick
APPG secretariat

Why do we still worship at the altar of economic growth? | Blog by Donald Hirsch
Richard Douglas

The Good Life?—Review of Monbiot’s Out of the Wreckage | By Richard Douglas
Jonathan Rowson

Why we’ve never had it so good, yet everything has to change | Blog by Jonathan Rowson
Tim Jackson

This new world—Reframing the distribution of rewards | Huffington Post Blog by Tim Jackson
Simon Mair

A fair days wage for a fair days work? | Blog by Simon Mair
Aldersgate Group

Money might grow on trees: Investing in natural capital to improve resilience | Blog by Alex White
Fergus Lyon

Innovation for wellbeing—social enterprises developing creative alternatives to conventional services | Blog by Fergus Lyon
Marit Hammond

Who should pay for climate change damage? | Blog by John Vogler and Marit Hammond
Tim Jackson

Broken promises—the engine of consumerism | Blog by Tim Jackson
Abi Bray | Kate Burningham | Katt Skippon | Lucy Richardson | Sue Venn

More Fun Less Stuff? Exploring Young People’s Everyday Consumption | A research log
Tim Jackson

The future of jobs: is decent work for all a pipe dream? | Blog by Tim Jackson
Agni Dikaiou | Simon Mair

Chasing good work – reflections on The Taylor Review | By Simon Mair and Agni Dikaiou
Emilia Melville

Commons, capabilities and collective action. A response to Ingrid Robeyns | by Emilia Melville

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About

The Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) is a cutting-edge research organisation that takes the form of a rich international network, drawing together expert partners from academic and non-academic institutions as co-producers of the work programme. The overall research question is: 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.

Contact

Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
University of Surrey
Guildford GU2 7XH

Email: info@cusp.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 1483 684316

Newsletter

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"Everyone talks about peace, but no one educates f

"Everyone talks about peace, but no one educates for peace. In this world, they educate for competition, and competition is the beginning of any war. When educating to cooperate and owe each other solidarity, that day we will be educating for peace."⁠
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—Maria Montessori, 1936⁠
#QuoteOfTheDay #EducationAndPeace

How does everyday language shape our relationship

How does everyday language shape our relationship with nature? A new CUSP working paper by Dr Amy Burnett et al examines how English idioms encode extractive relationships with nature and explores how regenerative language could support sustainability, nature-positive enterprise and ecological resilience.⁠
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🔗 Full paper via cusp.ac.uk/publications (🔝or follow link in bio)⁠
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cc #Extractivism #LanguageMatters #Value #NaturalCapital #RegenerativeEnterprise #RegenerativeEconomics @middlesexuniversity @valuingcommunity ⁠@keystonebrandbuilder⁠
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A recent groundbreaking report from Ernst & Young’

A recent groundbreaking report from Ernst & Young’s New Economy Unit (NEU), with contributions from CUSP co-director @ProfTimJackson, shines a harsh light on the #extractivism that characterises modern #capitalism and highlights the changes needed for corporate sustainability to move beyond incremental improvements towards a more equitable, resilient and regenerative economic system.⁠
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🔗 Full report via cusp.ac.uk/publications (🔝 or follow link in bio)⁠
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#PostGrowth #Degrowth #TheCareEconomy cc @wellbeingeconomyalliance @sociologysurrey @institutesustainability

䷉ Making healthcare and pensions growth-resilient⁠

䷉ Making healthcare and pensions growth-resilient⁠
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A new MAPS/CUSP report looks at whether European healthcare and pension systems can remain sustainable if economies stop growing or begin to shrink. More broadly, it examines how these systems can be made resilient and capable of supporting wellbeing in a #postgrowth economy.⁠
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It examines healthcare and pension systems in the UK, Italy, Finland and the Netherlands, combining country case studies with economic modelling of the UK.⁠
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Christine Corlet Walker and Dario Leoni show that wellbeing and environmental sustainability do not necessarily require endless economic growth. Achieving this, however, will require significant changes to how welfare systems are designed and funded, so that they can support people’s wellbeing without relying on continued economic expansion.⁠
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🔗 Full paper via cusp.ac.uk/publications (or follow link in bio)⁠
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cc #WellbeingEconomy #GrowthDependency #BeyondGDP #WelfareWithoutGrowth #HorizonEurope⁠
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🎧 For decades, economic success has largely been m

🎧 For decades, economic success has largely been measured by growth and short-term returns. But what happens when those measures fail to account for the depletion of the natural systems businesses depend upon?⁠
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This question sits at the heart of the latest #SustainabilityMatters podcast episode. Host Nadia Woodhouse from the EY New Economy Unit speaks with renowned economist and author @ProfTimJackson and Kiara Konti of @eygreece about the risks of an extractivist economy, why "doing less harm" is no longer enough, and what organisations can do to create long-term value while strengthening resilience. ⁠
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🔗 Listen to the full episode on the usual podcast platforms (🔝 or follow link in bio)⁠
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#Extractivism #PostGrowth #TheCareEconomy #WellbeingEconomy #Degrowth HT @ey_global ⁠cc @ffc_commission ⁠

"We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human being

"We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other’s only hope."⁠
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—James Baldwin, 1971⁠
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#QuoteOfTheDay #ARapOnRace #JamesBaldwin #MargaretMead cc #TheCareEconomy

Time Use in a #PostGrowth World—New peer-reviewed

Time Use in a #PostGrowth World—New peer-reviewed study by Seán Fearon et al, modelling ambitious sufficiency-based lifestyle scenarios for Finland, France, and the UK to 2050.⁠
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The research, now published in #EcologicalEconomics, shows that while changes in how we spend our time can improve wellbeing and reduce emissions, further radical transformations in provisioning systems are still needed to stay within planetary boundaries. Without them, even positive social shifts in time use may have unintended negative environmental effects.⁠
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🔗 Full paper via cusp.ac.uk/publications (or follow link in bio)⁠
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#Degrowth #WellbeingEconomy #PlanetaryBoundaries cc @icta.stories @sociologysurrey @institutesustainability⁠
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Community-rooted social enterprises are transformi

Community-rooted social enterprises are transforming local food systems by combining trading with social impact and reaching underserved communities. They should be recognised as essential food-system partners.—New policy briefing from the SEFS project. ⁠
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🔗 cusp.ac.uk/publications (🔝 follow link in bio)⁠
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#Groundswell2026 #TUKFS #FoodSystem #CommunityFood #SocialEnterprise #SocEnt ⁠cc @institutesustainability @ffc_commission @sociologysurrey @socialenterpriseuk @sharedassets
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"Hard times are coming… We’ll need writers who c

"Hard times are coming... We’ll need writers who can remember freedom—poets, visionaries—realists of a larger reality... We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable—but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words."⁠
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— Ursula K. Le Guin, 2014⁠
#QuoteOfTheDay #ArtAndResistance

Parliamentary Work

CUSP is acting as the secretariat for the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Limits to Growth. The APPG provides a platform for cross-party dialogue and collaboration on shared and lasting prosperity in a world of environmental, social and economic limits. It aims to contribute to a growing international debate on redefining prosperity and developing new measures of progress. Membership for the APPG is drawn from both Houses and all main political parties.

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