Hazel Henderson and Juliet Schor Online Talk on Thursday

E.F. Schumacher once said of Hazel Henderson’s work: “[Her] essays—every one of them—have more “reality” than almost any other writings on societal problems I know.”

Hear what she and @JulietSchor have to say about the present moment this Thursday!https://t.co/e03JPjr3H9

— Schumacher Center for a New Economics (@Center4NewEcon) September 21, 2020

More With Juliet Schor

Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth By Juliet Schor







JULIET SCHOR: ON POST-FOSSIL CONSUMPTION (Parts 1, 2, 3)

So she does address peak oil and the restrictions on possible economies by limited useful forms of energy?

Time On Our Side: Why We All Need a Shorter Working Week

A publication of nef.

Sierra: GREEN BIZ: WORK LESS TO LIVE MORE
Think slow food, but for your whole life
Work Less, Live More

Reimagining America: An Evening with Gus Speth & Juliet Schor

The Center for a New American Dream

Playlist

Items of Interest, 21 March 2012

Almost got run over tonight! That ------- is lucky that I didn't trust his driving or visual skills.

For the feast of St. Benedict (on the old calendar of the Roman rite): Pax Inter Spinas by Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P.
Suscipe Me, Domine







Paul Gottfried, German Sabotage and America’s Entry Into World War I

Kevin Gutzman on Jack Riccardi: "James Madison and the Making of America" (mp3)

The funeral of Pope Shenouda III - in pictures


(via Byzantine, Texas)

Juliet Schor on Consumption and the Environment

The great, invisible brain wave in the sky by Gene Logsdon (EB)

From January: Happy 130th Birthday, A. A. Milne: “Happiness” and the Origin of Winnie-the-Pooh

Relocalization:
Building Businesses That Stand For Something

Preparing for the unimaginable by Dave Pollard (EB)


Peak Oil and Energy:
Behind Oil Price Rise: Peak Oil or Wall Street Speculation?
Peak oil, keeping reality in mind

Education:
Laziness by Any Other Name

Diet and Health:
Mark Nugent, Will Red Meat Really Kill You?
Gary Taubes, Science, Pseudoscience, Nutritional Epidemiology, and Meat

Catholic:
Garbage Generation
Life after RC: Pressing for an investigation
Brennan Pursell, How to Develop a Prayer Life that Transforms
Don Nicola Bux Personally Appeals to the SSPX: "This is the appropriate moment..."

Music:
Pretty Little Girl from Galax video

Movies:
Whit Stillman Q & A: 'Damsels in Distress,' 13-Year Hiatus, Upcoming Ska Rocksteady Project

ARC'TERYX LEAF Urban Wolf from ARC'TERYX LEAF on Vimeo.

Items of Interest, 9 November 2011

The Big Ideas podcast: EF Schumacher's 'small is beautiful'
"Economist Andrew Simms and Guardian columnist Madeleine Bunting are among those joining Benjamen Walker to discuss the legacy of Schumacher's 'Buddhist economics'"
mp3)

Book Review: Radical Gardening: Politics, idealism and rebellion in the garden
by Chuck Morse (EB)

BALLE: Visualizing a Plenitude Economy

New Dream Mini-Views: Visualizing a Plenitude Economy from Center for a New American Dream on Vimeo.

"This fun animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer economy. Narrated by economist and best-selling author Juliet Schor (julietschor.org)."

Italy's co-ops form a different sort of economy (archive)

Slow Food USA: Have a Slow Food Thanksgiving

Kelley Vlahos, The Ministry of Truth: Justices Invoke 1984

OWS:
Tomgram: Frances Fox Piven, The War on the Home Front
Talking with Matt Taibi
End Bonuses for Bankers

Richard Heinberg, MEMO TO THE #OCCUPY MOVEMENT (A Post Growth Economy)


The Roots of the Protest by George Leef
Occupy Wall Street might never have started If politicians hadn’t oversold higher education.



Guerilla Gardening at Occupy Wall Street

Peak Oil:
Eric Curren, Who Will Sound the Peak Oil Alarm
The biofuel grind by Tom Murphy (EB)

Collapse:
Three paths to near-term human extinction

Catholic:
College of St. Mary Magdalen: New England College Celebrates EF and OF, Ad Orientem

Catholic Life After the Ivy League: The Church of Our Saviour, NYC
(One of my favorite spots in New York. I still haven't been to St. Vincent Ferrer. Next time I'm in the city, perhaps.)

Word on Fire: Spirituality: The Monks of New Melleray
New Melleray Abbey

Music:
Four the Record: Miranda Lambert Comes to Terms with Herself

More Items of Interest

Medievalists.net: Queen’s and Princesses’ Political Function at the end of the Middle Ages (14th and 15th Centuries)

There was a live webchat with Fr. Robert Barron today, on the occasion of the publication of his new book Catholicism. If an archived video becomes available, I will post it.

HanCinema: Chuseok and the Rise of Traditional Markets

Distributist Review: Labor Rights, Addendum

From crushing distance to opening space - a meditation on speed and local consciousness
by Clifford Dean Scholz (EB)

Visualizing a plenitude economy by Juliet Schor (EB)

New Dream Mini-Views: Visualizing a Plenitude Economy from Center for a New American Dream on Vimeo.

Marginalizing Marriage By Father John Flynn, LC
Why This Trend Threatens Society

Notre Dame: New chair endowed in Byzantine Theology

Chris Masterjohn, Gary Taubes on Cherry-Picking and Paradigm Shifts (A Brief Thought on Science)

Anthony Bourdain sounds off on the U.S. obesity epidemic


Counterpunch:
GARETH PORTER, The CIA and the Drones
DAVE LINDORFF, War Spending and Paul Krugman

SFEMS this weekend: About Catacoustic Consort and Wildcat Viols

Tim Ferris will be speaking in San Francisco on September 14. A profile in The New Yorker.

Items of Interest, 1 September 2011

Robb Wolf: Caring for the land: an interview with Joel Salatin (part 4 of 5)

Red Tory? by Roberta Bayer

Dr. Fleming on the Federalists and Anti-Federalists:

Is this really a black and white case? Were there no Federalists who believed in limited government? Were they all power-seeking monsters? Even John Randolph’s Federalist friend Fisher Ames? Why would Adams and Hamilton have wanted a type of government they had never experienced? It seems to me the real question on the table–apart from quite practical matters of dealing out favors–was how far to depart from the British model, which was almost universally viewed as the freest and most successful state in the world at the time. Outside of New England, the leaders of the Revolution had been proud to be English, and it was their mistaken belief that their rights as Englishmen were being threatened that led them to rebellion. George III exceeded the king’s traditional powers not by acting as a dictator or usurping authority he did not have. He got his powers honestly by bribing members of parliament. In the political struggles of the time, I generally support the anti-federalists, but that does not mean we have to pretend that the Federalists were, to a man, dirty scoundrels plotting tyranny. And, let us be candid. There are no Anti-Federalists today, not in any practical political sense. One might just as well say that in supporting, a party of law and order one is a confucianist or a fascist. The Anti-Federalists made excellent arguments, and when they elected more or less their man to the White House, they achieved something, but many (not all) turned against Jefferson, when he proved to be a practical statesman, doing his best for his country as he saw it, Constitution or no Constitution. I suppose we could begin the restoration of the old order by giving up the Louisiana Purchase and kicking out all states admitted after 1800. Perhaps we should give back to the states the right to issue their own paper money. They did such a good job of it in the past!

Anti-Federalism is an attitude, not a philosophy. As an attitude, it derives its strength from the great traditions of Aristotle, St. Thomas, and Althusius. If turned into a philosophy, however, it will become a strait-jacket.

Inkwell: Authors and Artists
Topic 417: John Robb on War, Peace, and Resilient Communities

Patrick Buchanan, Looking Back at “The Good War”

Part 3 of Why the History of Nationalism Matters in a Global Age by Lloyd Kramer

Vox Populi: All ur bikes are belong to us

Coming round the Dark Mountain Part 1: Uncivilisation by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)

Less Work, More Living by Juliet Schor
Working fewer hours could save our economy, save our sanity, and help save our planet.

Counterpunch:
GARETH PORTER, Tribunal Concealed Evidence Al-Qaeda Cell Killed Hariri
RALPH NADER, The Empire is Eating Itself
THOMAS H. NAYLOR, Robots of the World Unite!

An academic dreams

The 80% solution by Juliet Schor (EB)

If a company finds that it can manage fine with a class of employees working 80% of its hours, what's to prevent it from downsizing? The power of the state. She gives an argument based on economics, but I don't see such laws having their intended effects in the real world, or even having a possibility of being put into effect, but I believe that we live in an oligarchy and not in a polity in which the state (or the Democratic party) is at odds with the economic elites. (I could have said socialist state, but I don't know how much of the opposition between these two groups in socialist states is actually real. Do the same dynamics exist in Europe as in here? And if that is the case, why is it more likely to pass such legislation there rather than here?)

I'm all for job security and Americans working less hours and measures to do something about stagnant wages versus the cost of living, but I don't think this proposal approaches being an adequate start, even at the local level. Would these laws be successful in California? To whom would such laws even apply? What sort of jobs fall under the "higher-wage parts of the labor market." Those in technology might appreciate having more free time, but what is stopping continued outsourcing? How would these laws help those in FIRE who are out of work and need re-training first of all?

Spreading the work around so that the "idle" can be employed may look good on paper and practicable in the short-term, but this doesn't address the problem of sustainability. If many jobs cannot be perpetuated in the future, isn't it better to do something about it now rather than delaying it? Yes, this is even more idealistic and less likely to occur, so Professor Schor's' proposal may have more political traction.) Do we currently have a glut of unnecessary jobs? If too many people are being displaced and dispossessed because of cheap energy and the wage slave system, then what does the 80% solution do to address this?

Surprise! Bankers in the Netherlands embraced such laws (while screwing everyone else over?), along with public sector employees and academics.)

Demand for oil will go up next year?

IEA: ‘Cheap oil is over’ as demand approaches new record (original)

Matthew Wild, Peak Generation

The International Energy Agency (IEA) is forecasting world oil demand will set a new record next year when is smashes through 2008’s pre-recession high – and warning that the “era of cheap oil is over.” According to the IEA’s latest Oil Market Report, published August 11, global demand will reach 86.6 million barrels per day in 2010, and then 87.9 million barrels per day in 2011, assuming a continuing global economic recovery. This means demand is set to pass the all-time high of 86.9 million barrels per day established in 2008 before the global economic downturn.

Of course, the figures assume that there will be continuing global economic recovery. Will this be the case?

And something from Juliet Schor: Rethinking scale and growth for a more sustainable world

Both for households and firms, shifting to sustainability opens up new possibilities, and intersects with ongoing changes in the economy. In Plenitude, I lay out a number of principles that should inform our thinking about how to solve the climate and eco-crises. These include re-thinking the question of scale, knowledge transmission, the role of informal economies and social capital, new consumer patterns, and the relation among productivity growth, output and hours of work.

A 21-hr work week?

Work's Overrated
The post–Technology Age workforce can produce more in less time, reduce its carbon footprint and allow employees to have (and, no, we're not joking) a personal life
by Leilani Clark

(h/t Post Carbon Institute)

Links:
New Economic Foundation
The Art of Being Minimalist: How to Stop Consuming and Start Living
scribd
Becoming Minimalist
Far Beyond the Stars
RowdyKittens
Interview with Everett Bogue: How to Pursue the Reality You Imagine Yourself Living

Juliet B. Schor is a member of the BC faculty? I may have seen her before.
Juliet B. Schor: "Plenitude" | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR