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NOW. March 2009

Meetings in the Present Continuous

NOW. Our Place in the Cosmos

Talk with Jill Tarter and Jordi Portell

A conversation between Jordi Isern, director of the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC-CSIC), Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute and Jordi Portell, coordinator of SETI.cat. The ...

Serge Latouche

Degrowth as a Way Out of the Crisis

Serge latouche, economist and growth objector, on the solutions to the current crisis that degrowth can bring. Over the years of speculative and financial euphoria, it was quite common to find newspaper headlines proclaiming that the economy was doing well, but people weren't. This was a result ...

NOW. From Crisis to Transformation

Dialogue with Susan George and Joan Martínez Alier

The economic crisis is only a part of a broader crisis with other significant dimensions, such as the ecological crisis or the "crisis of representation" -the crisis in our way of understanding the world. Along with other old, false certainties, unlimited economic growth now ...