One of the joys of publishing under a Creative Commons license is finding your work picked up in unexpected places. This week saw an article on Equitrade chocolate used in an English comprehension test for a Japanese university entrance exam.

Contributed a workshop to Christian Ecology Link’s 30th anniversary conference. The theme was ‘consumer detox’, about the challenges of living sustainably in a consumer culture.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Article on Millennium Consumption Goals for the Post Growth Institute.

Guest blog post for World Development Movement.

My review at The Ecologist.