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Event: Panel debates

  • 1972: The high water mark of modernity | Evening discussion, London 17 Nov 2022
    Richard Douglas | Will Davies

    1972: The high water mark of modernity | Evening discussion, London 17 Nov 2022

  • From the Limits to Growth to Earth4All | APPG evening debate, 19 Oct 2022
    APPG secretariat | Caroline Lucas | Clive Lewis | Tim Jackson

    From the Limits to Growth to Earth4All | APPG evening debate, 19 Oct 2022

  • Mum, Will the Planet Die Before I Do? | Podcast launch event with Katy Glassborow and Babita Sharma, 27 Apr 2022
    Babita Sharma | Katy Glassborow | Rocky Dawuni | Tessa Khan | Tim Jackson

    Mum, Will the Planet Die Before I Do? | Podcast launch event with Katy Glassborow and Babita Sharma, 27 Apr 2022

  • Tackling growth dependency in the welfare system—The case of adult social care | APPG meeting, 13 July 2021
    APPG secretariat | Caroline Lucas | Christine Corlet Walker | Emma Dowling | Hermann Ott | Tim Jackson

    Tackling growth dependency in the welfare system—The case of adult social care | APPG meeting, 13 July 2021

  • Video | Financing the future: Driving Investment for net zero emissions and nature restoration | Report launch, 22 Jun 2021
    Aldersgate Group | Tim Jackson

    Video | Financing the future: Driving Investment for net zero emissions and nature restoration | Report launch, 22 Jun 2021

  • Upskilling the UK Workforce for the 21st Century | #UpskillingUK launch, 15 Oct 2020
    Aldersgate Group

    Upskilling the UK Workforce for the 21st Century | #UpskillingUK launch, 15 Oct 2020

  • Building a #NetZero emissions economy | Report launch, 5 Oct 2020
    Aldersgate Group

    Building a #NetZero emissions economy | Report launch, 5 Oct 2020

  • Video | How can we build back better after COVID? | Panel discussion w/ Tim Jackson, Mariana Mazzucato, Michael Marmot and David King
    Tim Jackson

    Video | How can we build back better after COVID? | Panel discussion w/ Tim Jackson, Mariana Mazzucato, Michael Marmot and David King

  • Podcast | Morality & modelling in a Wall Street trading room | Daniel Beunza in conversation with Will Davies
    Will Davies

    Podcast | Morality & modelling in a Wall Street trading room | Daniel Beunza in conversation with Will Davies

  • Better Lives: Fostering Sustainable Practices in Small Fashion Businesses | London, 30 Oct 2019
    Fergus Lyon

    Better Lives: Fostering Sustainable Practices in Small Fashion Businesses | London, 30 Oct 2019

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

 

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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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Artwork by kultur.work—built with imagery from Unsplash (licensed with Canva).⁠
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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

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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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