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Masters students present their completed work next week

by Mark Swilling | Nov 3, 2017 | Blog

The most exciting moment in the academic year is upon us again: next week the students who have completed their masters research will present their completed research to the academic staff and to the masters students who are commencing their respective research...

Centre for Complex Systems in Transition – two years on

by Mark Swilling | Oct 14, 2017 | Blog

Yesterday the core CST research team met to reflect on how far we have come since our first strategic retreat in about March 2015 which took place in Stanford. We met for most of the day and one of the issues discussed was progress towards achieving one of our goals,...

Eve Annecke’s take on the Lynedoch EcoVillage – a portrait of beauty and hope

by Mark Swilling | Aug 12, 2017 | Blog

Mncebisi Jonas, Desta Mebratu and me at the Conference on Towards a Human-Centred Sustainable Economic and Social Systems for the 21st Century

by Mark Swilling | May 15, 2017 | Blog

As I said last Thursday during a session where we three were the speakers, it was a privilege to speak with two of my mentors – Desta Mebratu, from Ethiopia, who wrote a paper in 1998 on Sustainable Development that has been compulsory reading for all my...

Towards a human-centred sustainable economic and social system for the 21st Century

by Mark Swilling | May 5, 2017 | Blog

From 10-12 May (next week), my research centre is hosting the 14th international colloquium of a network of progressive economists who have been collaborating for some years to develop a new economic theory appropriate for the world we currently live in. The...

Human potential, reconnecting to nature and the feminine

by Mark Swilling | May 2, 2017 | Blog

In writing a paper with a colleague who has strong views on economic and social issues but not about ecology and patriarchy, I wrote this message to him:  “This is an old debate between us, and I am happy for it to continue. But in my view the idea of human...
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