Author Archives: Jeremy

About Jeremy

I'm a writer and thinker, a lover of books, words and stories, art, film and photography. I live in Luton, and divide my time between working for a small publisher, and freelance writing, community activism, and gardening my little patch of Earth.

Talking economics on Radio 2

I was on the Jeremy Vine show this week on Radio 2 to talk about post growth economics. The production team had come across my article on Japan, and got me in to talk about whether growth is actually necessary in an economy. On the other side of the table, Sam Bowman from the Adam Smith Institute.

Available on iPlayer, or audio here.


Article in Positive News

Does making poverty history mean making wealth history too? My article for Positive News.


Make Wealth History re-design

To celebrate ten years of blogging and five years of Make Wealth History later this year, I gave the blog a major design overhaul.


Brave Old World review

A review of Tom Hodgkinson’s latest, for The Ecologist.


On banking, campaigning, and cats…

It’s been a while since I posted a cutting. My wife and I have had a baby since I last posted one. Little Zach is doing well, by writing not so much. Here’s a somewhat facetious post about fractional reserve banking up on the Positive Money website.


MCGs for PGI

Article on Millennium Consumption Goals for the Post Growth Institute.


Why the tar sands are bad for Madagascar

Guest blog post for World Development Movement.


Climate Change Denial review

My review at The Ecologist.


Talking tar sands in Germany

An article of mine on Canada’s tar sands, used in a conversational English textbook for German high-schoolers. It’s in a book called Canada – Dreams and Realities, part of the Schwerpunktthema Abitur Englisch series.

Suggestions for using the article include an activity where the class are divided into representatives of either the oil industry, the Canadian government or the Canadian First Nations, for a mock debate.


Local Money review

My review of Peter North’s Local Money in Community Currency Magazine, February 2011.


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