Work 35.6

Brain Mulch: White Dress, Green Heart

20 October, 2009
 It’s not easy being green, sang Kermit the Frog. I never quite understood what he meant, until I began to plan my wedding. …
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In Review: Managing Without Growth

20 October, 2009

In his newest book, Managing Without Growth, York University professor Peter Victor makes a convincing case that rich nations, such as Canada, can abandon economic growth as a national goal without compromising their citizens’ happiness. …

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In Review: Losing Confidence: Power, Politics, and the Crisis in Canadian Democracy

15 October, 2009
 As I read Elizabeth May’s Losing Confidence, I thought about Uruguay, a nation that once boasted a flourishing democracy. ...
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Eat This Recession

15 October, 2009 | Wayne Roberts

Suppose they had a depression and nobody came?

Instead of accepting today’s economic downturn as a pink slip that can’t be refused, what if our governments reacted as if they had received a Facebook invitation: by selecting “join cause,” “learn more” or “ignore”?

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Simpler, Fairer, Richer

15 October, 2009 | Sally Lerner
 The economic downturn of the early 1990s was a window of opportunity to examine paths to more sustainable work arrangements. Today’s employment hasn’t changed much though, except that unions are weaker...
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The Workless Class

15 October, 2009
 Throughout the ages, the young, white and unemployed have pervaded British subculture, but never in such rapidly rising numbers as in the first decade of this century. One million youths between the ages of 16 and 24 are now part of multigenerational families that are living in poverty and are perpetually absent from the workforce. British bureaucrats label them NEETs (Not in Employment, Education or Training)...
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Give Trees a Chance

15 October, 2009 | Martin Von Mirbach and Lorne Johnson

The meltdown that swept through the world’s financial markets in late 2008 was simply the latest setback to hit the beleaguered Canadian forestry industry.

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Time, Money, and Well-Being

15 October, 2009
 The graphs, charts and illustrations presented here show how work practices are affecting our lives in unexpected ways...
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Power of the First People

15 October, 2009 | Chris Henderson
 Rivers are so dominant in the Canadian psyche that only Canucks refer to electricity as “hydro.” Consequently, it’s fitting that as the Great White North ambles aboard the renewable energy bandwagon, water is proving to be an important source of green power. Also fitting is the role that First Nations are playing in the country’s move toward a more sustainable energy supply. As the keepers of much of our water and given recent court decisions, First Nations have the potential to become the power brokers when it comes to developing this rich resource...
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Are We Happy Yet?

15 October, 2009 | Mark Anielski

Imagine Canada’s Olympic speed skaters. Clad in skin-tight lycra, every muscle on their sleek bodies ripples into action as they glide along the ice with a rhythm that makes it all appear so smooth, so easy. Well, no image could be farther from depicting the state of our economy, which, I argue, has entered a cancerous stage of capitalism. Why cancer? Because our debt-based money economy has to continue expanding in order to service the interest payments on a growing mountain­ of debt, which is drawing down our human, social and natural capital accounts...

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