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CHN Sponsors NCSE Symposium

January 28th, 2010

At the 10th National Conference of the National Council for Science and the Environment (titled The New Green Economy), CHN sponsored the symposium Counterpoint: The Limits of Markets to Achieve Sustainability: The Dangerous Illusion of Endless Growth. The session was organized by CHN Senior Fellow Peter Brown and Paul Heltne and chaired by CHN board member George Rabb.  This symposium gave in-depth viewpoints from ecological economics, whose pioneer Herman Daly was honored by an NCSE Lifetime Achievement Award.  Session speakers included Peter Victor, author of Managing Without Growth; Peter Brown, who focused on the ethical challenges of ecological economics; and John Fullerton, founder of the Capital Institute, who brought the problems of capital markets into focus based on his long background at Goldman Sachs and elsewhere.  The three speakers were later commended by Richard Benedick, the President of the NCSE.  Brief responses to these presentations were given by Paul Heltne, Brian Czech (author of the Runaway Train and founder of the Center for Advancement of the Steady State Economy), Robert Nadeau (author of the Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics has Failed the Environment), and CHN board member Gus Speth. Gus Speth also delivered this year’s Chafee Memorial Lecture at the NCSE meeting. Visit the NCSE website for a summary of the CHN symposium, and check back on the CHN website for postings of the PowerPoint presentations from this symposium.

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