STWR - Share The World's Resources

The blinkered pursuit of economic growth by governments is one of the root causes of the financial crisis. Prosperity without growth is no longer a utopian dream - it is a financial and ecological necessity, says a report by the Sustainable Development Commission (UK).

A manifesto that charts the development of co-production, its growth in the UK, and sets out a ten point plan for what will be, in effect, the biggest revolution in social policy since William Beveridge introduced the welfare state.  By the New Economics Foundation (nef).

Here’s some food for thought: we in the United States are reaping the benefits of continued technological, medical and agricultural advancements, and yet nearly two-thirds of the world’s countries are not. And while some have access to a partial spectrum of benefits, one third of the world can barely tap into them at all.