Decolonisation, dependency and disengagement—the challenge of Ireland’s degrowth transition | New CUSP blog by Seán Fearon → https://lnkd.in/e5VhkWng "Advancing #degrowth in Ireland requires an understanding of, and a reckoning with, the economic legacy of its colonised past. A post-colonial economy within planetary boundaries must break with relationships of dependency and structures of unsustainability." __ cc #PostGrowth #RethinkGrowth2024 #WellbeingEconomics #BeyondGrowth #WISEhorizons #PostGrowthDeal #ProsperityWithoutGrowth
CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
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Elaborating Visions. Exploring Possibilities.
About us
Prosperity Matters | What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental, social and economic limits?—We work with people, policy and business to address this question, developing pragmatic steps towards a shared and lasting prosperity.
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https://www.cusp.ac.uk
External link for CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
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- 11-50 employees
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- Guildford, Surrey
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- 2015
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- Economics, Philosophy, Psychology, System Dynamics, Social Sciences, Political Economy, Political Science, Ecological Economics, Environmental Psychology, Prosperity, Postgrowth, Sustainable Prosperity, Prosperity Without Growth, An Economy That Works, Sustainable Finance, Good Work, Circular Economy, Limits To Growth, and System Change
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Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, GB
Employees at CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
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Oliver Dudok van Heel
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Catherine Cameron
Climate & evaluation expert: Commissioner | Policy, Advocacy, and Innovation
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Richard Bampfylde
Fundraising Lead | Sustainable Prosperity | Partnerships for Youth
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Kerstin Hacker
Photographer, PhD, practice researcher, interest in collective making, collaboration between north and south, photography in Zambia, external examiner
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The #TUKFS funded Social Enterprise Food Systems project (SEFS) explored how social enterprises can introduce innovations for healthy and sustainable food. We are delighted to now launch our #GoodPractice Guide, which draws on this research and the experiences of our #SocialEnterprise partners. ▶️ https://lnkd.in/gpu2upyk H/T Shared Assets, Windmill Hill City Farm, London Early Years Foundation (LEYF), Cultivate, Community Transport Glasgow, THE SELBY TRUST, Social adVentures, Social Enterprise UK cc #FoodTransformation #SustainableFood #HealthyFood #FoodSystem #SystemChange #SocEnt
Good Practice Guide for Social Enterprises Working on Food, Wellbeing and Sustainability
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Associate Professor at CEEDR, Middlesex University, and Co-I at CUSP, University of Surrey.
Fantastic to see this Good Practice Guide come out of our research on social enterprise and sustainable food systems (SEFS) as part of the UKRI Transforming UK Food Systems programme! Fantastic work by our project partner Shared Assets! #sustainablefood #foodsystems #socialenterprise
���� NEW RESOURCE: We have a produced Good Practice Guide for social enterprises, as part of the Social Enterprises & Sustainable Food Systems (SEFS) project: https://lnkd.in/ecJCUf2e The guide gathers insights to support social enterprises considering how best to enhance and grow their activities and beneficial impacts, particularly around food. The guide includes tips on: 🌱 Starting out 🛠 Setting up 🤝 Building partnerships 📈 Scaling 💞 Caring for yourself and others SEFS was a 2 year project responding to the ways the mainstream food system is failing people and planet, by exploring ways social enterprises could be part of the solution to creating a healthier, more sustainable, and fairer approach. We worked with CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, Windmill Hill City Farm, London Early Years Foundation (LEYF), Cultivate, Community Transport Glasgow, THE SELBY TRUST, Social adVentures, Social Enterprise UK, Kate Burningham, Patrick Elf, Michael Gargaro, Anastasia Loukianov, Fergus Lyon, Micaela Mazzei, Bianca Stumbitz, Dr Doirean Wilson and others. 🔗 Find out more: https://lnkd.in/ecJCUf2e 🖇 Access the full report: https://lnkd.in/eB99t_3Q
Social Enterprise and Sustainable Food Systems
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Models, Assessment and Policies for Sustainability—CUSP is partnering in new EU Horizons project #MAPS_EU. Bringing together leading experts in #postgrowth economics from across Europe, the new project aims to strengthen policy proposals that are not only environmentally and socioeconomically meaningful but politically feasible. The CUSP team comprises Andrew Jackson, Christine Corlet Walker, Ben Gallant, #DarioLeoni and Tim Jackson. More details about our involvement via ▶️ https://lnkd.in/ecMCcEsh ___ cc #degrowth #beyondgrowth
Models, Assessment and Policies for Sustainability—CUSP partnering in new EU Horizons project
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In recognition of #MSMEday today, CUSP researchers Robyn Owen (Baldock) and Amy Burnett at GreenFinMDX explore the need for support to help small and medium-sized businesses identify and showcase nature-positive investments, highlighting the roles of investors, intermediaries and researchers. → https://lnkd.in/eXzNQTEd #GreenFinance #SustainableBusiness #GreenSMEs #SMEsDay
Accelerating Finance for Green Small Businesses: Building a Sustainable Future | Blog by Robyn Owen and Amy Burnett
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Resourcing Impact: Exploring opportunities, gaps, and strategies for sustaining impact initiatives in Africa | 🗓️29-30 Aug 2024 The Sustaining Impact Summit is an annual event aimed at promoting the #sustainability of impact-focused organisations in Africa. Led by Adeyemi Adelekan, PhD from CUSP, the summit convenes thought leaders and practitioners to celebrate the resilience of #SocialEnterprises across the continent, spotlighting sustainability challenges, and exploring strategies for overcoming them. → https://lnkd.in/ekFKeHdH Follow African Social Enterprise Workshop (ASEW) page for registration details and updates. cc #MSMEday #SMEday
Resourcing Impact: Exploring opportunities, gaps, and strategies for sustaining impact initiatives in Africa | 29-30 Aug 2024
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Sustainability, Imagination and Aesthetics—The programme for our interdisciplinary workshop with the Institute for Sustainability on 🗓️26-27 Jun 2024 is now live. Registration via email. → https://lnkd.in/erfkkhqg #SolarPunk #ArtAndSustainability HT Anastasia Loukianov Carl Thompson
Call for papers: Sustainability, Imagination and Aesthetics | Guildford, 26-27 June 2024
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Helping founders raise investment and grow their businesses - Investor Readiness I Sustainable Growth
We have a few INVESTOR tickets left for our investment pitching event at Middlesex University next week - 20th of June INVESTORS Are you seeking investment opportunities in nature positive - planet positive and sustainable businesses? We have a fantastic cohort of businesses pitching: wind energy, fashion/textiles, food-tech, conservation consultancy and a #rum distillery 😎 Please register below to attend or share with a colleague: #angelinvestors #sustainabledevelopment #naturepositive #angelinvestment Senamile Sishi Russ Wakeham Jody Bragger Robyn Owen (Baldock) Amy Burnett Ifeyinwa Kanu Abdhesh Kumar GreenFinMDX Catherine Wilder Oliver Bream McIntosh Greenbackers Investment Capital Robert Hokin https://lnkd.in/ef8xPwN2
Nature-Positive Investment: a pitching opportunity for start-ups
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Low #growth numbers hitting the news again in the UK. This paper by Tim Jackson (originally written for the UK's Ministry of Defence in 2018) is setting out why this cure-all is actually not easy to come by anymore. → https://lnkd.in/e8GJg-Rh #SecularStagnation #PostGrowth #Degrowth #BeyondGrowth #BeyondGDP #GrowthDependency #WellbeingEconomy
The Post-Growth Challenge — Secular Stagnation, Inequality and the Limits to Growth | Working Paper by Tim Jackson
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Yesterday, the UN Secretary General called for a ban on fossil fuel advertising. Recently, Simon Mair discussed the potential city role in ending fossil fuel advertising in the Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy ( https://lnkd.in/ea_F2ceM ). Given that a Canadian industry advocacy group was just caught making outrageously false claims by the advertising standards board, ( https://lnkd.in/eUEzCmHZ ) the UNSG has a point.
Language, Climate Change, and Cities beyond Capitalism
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