Renegade Economists Show #276 Listen to the show Subscribe to the podcast Recorded live at the Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne this week Nic Francis Gilley CEO of Cool NRG discusses the markets role in the fight against global warming. Gilley’s company installs free energy efficient light globes in homes from Melbourne to Mexico, reducing carbons emissions by millions of … Read More
Adding It Up: Environmental Accounting in Australia
Renegade Economists Show #275 Listen to the show Subscribe to the podcast Following on from last weeks interview on ecosystem services valuation, Karl interviews Dr Michael Vardon. Dr Vardon is a special advisor to the Australian Bureau of Statistics on environmental accounting. Dr Vardon introduces the System of Environmental – Economic Accounting (SEEA), which has been in development since 1993 … Read More
On Eco System Service Valuation
Renegade Economists Show #274 Listen to the show Subscribe to the podcast Mining and logging make the big bucks, but what’s the true cost? This week Karl interviews Ian Curtis, of Curtis NRA, whose landmark work on Eco System Service Valuation has won a serious battle in Papua New Guinea. He combines ecology and economics to calculate the cost of environmental degradation … Read More
Shareholders of the Earth
Renegade Economists Show #273 As broadcast on 3CR, Wed Jan 30, 2013 Listen to the show Subscribe to the podcast Following on from George Monbiot’s article supporting Land Tax last week, the show features a BBC interview with UK Green MP Caroline Lucas on her legislative bill to the House of Commons asking Treasury to model the effects of Land … Read More
Pavan Sukhdev & Corporation 2020
Renegade Economists 265 As broadcast on 3CR, Wed Dec 5th. Subscribe to the weekly podcast via this itunes link Show Notes: Corporation 2020: Groundbreaking economist Pavan Sukhdev discusses developments in ecosystem services accounting, the need for resource taxation and the push to make CEO’s lead on environmental change. Listen to the interview Photosynthesis, pollination and precipitation are ecosystem services to … Read More