William Rees gave one of the Keynote Speeches for Day 2 of the Dresden Nexus Conference 2015 (DNC2015), which took place 26 March 2015 in Dresden, Germany. His speech, entitled “Is Urban Sustainability Possible? Biophysical and Political Considerations”, aims...
Post Carbon Fellow Bill Rees will be among the keynote speakers at The Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative second international conference, “Transitions Beyond a Consumer Society”. Other keynote speakers include Dr. John Ehrenfeld, Dr. Giorgos Kallis and Professor...
Economic theories, though social constructions, can reflect reality to varying degrees. In the face of dire environmental challenges, adopting a realistic theory is key to the survival of global civilization. The neoliberal emphasis on limitless growth and monetary flows,...
This is a response to the article The End of Sustainability. William E. Rees is the co-creator of the Eco-Footprint concept and a Post Carbon Fellow. He authored the The Human Nature of Unsustainability, and Thinking Resilience chapters of...
Post Carbon Fellow Bill Rees was quoted in this article on growing wealth inequality at Vancouver 24hr news. From the article: The better way to get people working, according to Rees, is retrofitting buildings, cars and appliances to be...
Post Carbon Fellow Bill Rees recorded in April at the Vancouver Degrowth Event on why degrowth is the only realistic path to sustainability. Watch the Q&A for this event
Humans may pride themselves as being the best evidence for intelligent life on Earth, but an alien observer would record that the (un)sustainability conundrum has the global community floundering in a swamp of cognitive dissonance and collective denial...
The bottom line for sustainability is that any proposal for sustainable development that does not explicitly acknowledge a system’s resilience is simply not going to keep delivering the goods (or services). Resilience science is based on the simple premise...
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How do population, water, energy, food, and climate issues impact one another? What can we do to address one problem without making the others worse? The Post Carbon Reader features essays by some of the world’s most provocative thinkers...