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Brian Czech has a Ph.D. in renewable natural resources studies from the University of Arizona with a minor in political science. The founding President of CASSE, Brian is also a Visiting Professor at Virginia Tech, where he teaches ecological economics in the National Capitol Region. A prolific author of peer-reviewed science articles, he is also the author of Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train, which calls for an end to uneconomic growth, and The Endangered Species Act: History, Conservation Biology, and Public Policy. He has played a leading role in engaging the environmental sciences and natural resources professions in ecological economics and macroeconomic policy dialog.

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Limits to Growth: Of Stuff, Value, and GDP

0 Comments | Posted April 15, 2012 | 6:20 PM

I'm starting to think that perpetual growth notions are the Achilles heel of the human brain. They pop up like munchkins on a wackamole machine. You smash one and up come two.

A recent example comes from Tim Worstall, a business and technology writer for Forbes. Like the long...

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Presenting the Economic Policy of the Occupy Movement

0 Comments | Posted November 15, 2011 | 1:41 PM

If there is one thing the Occupy Wall Street movement has generated, it's the opinion that there is no unifying agenda or policy being advanced by the Occupiers. Perhaps that explains why organizations such as mine have been asked repeatedly to contribute to that agenda and help identify...

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We Need a Green Tea Party, You Betcha

0 Comments | Posted October 12, 2011 | 3:36 PM

As crazy as the Tea Party may seem, they've got one thing very, very right. The deficit spending has gone too far. Continuous deficits and the ever-expanding debt are leading the USA -- and much of the world -- into an unprecedented economic and social crisis.

Why "unprecedented," you...

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President Obama's (Hoped For) "Amaze Speech"

0 Comments | Posted August 8, 2011 | 3:52 PM

Fellow Americans, this evening I have a special message for you. It's an unprecedented and surprising message, but ultimately it will resonate with your common sense, good will, and patriotic spirit. It turns out that the recessionary cloud we're under does have an extremely valuable silver lining. I know; it...

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Another Bite Out of Life

0 Comments | Posted April 8, 2011 | 11:18 AM

From the little Fauquier Times Democrat, serving a rural county in northern Virginia, to the ABC Nightly News, we keep hearing the opinions of rednecks, news anchors, CEOs and statesmen that the radioactivity coming from the Fukushima nuclear plant is "nothing to worry about." It's way below this...

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A Full Employment Act for the 21st Century

0 Comments | Posted March 9, 2011 | 4:43 PM

If we aren't living in an "educable moment," then we must be dumber than a doggone boot. Financial collapse, fiscal crisis, skyrocketing gas prices, global warming, revolutions in crowded countries, unemployment all around... let's graduate from the College of the 21st Century and recognize the old kindergarten lessons about limits...

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Obama Steps Onto Slippery Slope

0 Comments | Posted February 8, 2011 | 11:10 AM

He's finally done it. Barack Obama has taken the tantalizing trail to a notoriously slippery slope. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal recently, the President promised, "federal agencies [will] ensure that regulations protect our safety, health and environment while promoting economic growth." In other words, we...

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