More consumption: more happiness?

… to prevent a race to the bottom to satisfy multinationals When political entities are small compared to the issues to be addressed or compared to concentrated economic powers, they are individually powerless. This is probably a driver of populism and of the feeling that many people have of losi…

… for climate-resilient and integrative cities Michela Conigliaro, working at the Food & Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), developed over the last years the concept of “urban and suburban forestry”. This concept goes way beyond what most municipalities consider when speaking…

… because those remaining are not concentrated enough Economists have the illusion that a price system is the universal answer to situations of scarcity. Provided the price for a good is high enough, humans will engage in the efforts necessary to access the good, whatever the difficulties, so that …

… for a low-impact, sustainable society of the future Andreas Thiedmann is the initiator of the “Zeitensinsel – “Island of times” – project. This will be an open-air museum dedicated to re-creating the living conditions and the technologies of our ancestors, from pre-history to the Roman empire, f…