Taking our lead from a superb weekend of discussions amongst a gamut of switched on thinkers at the Sustainable Living Festival, Karl Fitzgerald and Andy Moore presented the Renegade Economists live from the event. During the show we ran through a dream list of predictions for a Transition Decade to sustainability Listen to the show [...]

photo credit: sigmaman In Revenue Sharing – A Piece of the Pie John Cutfeet says: I recently heard an Elder say that we, as the First Peoples, were given resources by the Creator from which we can make a living. He said, “God gave us resources to use from our lands. Our people did commercial [...]

A kilogram of beef contains between 15,000 and 100,000 litres of embodied water. For every kilogram of wheat grown in Australia, seven kilograms of topsoil are lost. We give lip service to concerns about peak oil and greenhouse gases, yet our agricultural industry is utterly dependent on unsustainable quantities of polluting petrochemicals. There’s no reason [...]