Confronted with global warming and the increasing rarity of natural resources, every country in the world has to rise to the challenge of sustainable development. Our finite resources make us think of the Earth as an Island in the universe: a fragile system we have to preserve to ensure our...

Tim Jackson’s book, praised by the critiques, aims to reconcile our need for prosperity with urging ecological limits by questioning the pressure of growing faster and consuming more. It shows that although our economies are built on the growth imperative, its positive marginal effects on...

In the current context, biodiversity, which is a new notion in economics, is primarily viewed in terms of cost measurement and is rarely described as a source of economic opportunity. This study examines several business and social models that aim to preserve biodiversity while answering the needs...

Claude Gruffat was a pioneer of organic farming in France. He relates the genesis of this movement, then details its characteristics and tries to evaluate its future. But its company, Biocoop, is not just one more organic food seller: it is a cooperative company, ruled following strongly democratic...

The world faces various environmental risks of disruption and decline such as global warming, falling watertables, disappearance of forests, melting glaciers, collapsing fisheries, and rising sea levels. In Plan B, Lester R. Brown shows that by ignoring nature's deadlines for dealing with these...