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"No country in the world currently meets the basic needs of its citizens at a globally sustainable level of resource use. Our research, recently published in Nature Sustainability (and summarised in The Conversation), is the first to quantify the national resource use associated with achieving a good life for over 150 countries. It shows that meeting the basic needs of all people on the planet would result in humanity transgressing multiple environmental limits, based on current relationships between resource use and human well-being. The chart below demonstrates the profound challenge nations currently face. National performance on seven environmental sustainability indicators is plotted against eleven minimum social thresholds for a good life (see About page for further details). Ideally, nations would be located in the top-left corner with no biophysical boundaries transgressed and all minimum social thresholds achieved."

"To revert the current ecological overshoot and build a sustainable society, we have to collectively engage in changing our economic model. "Sufficiency: moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency" suggests introducing hard limitations to unsustainable trends-in particular to overconsumption-and putting emphasis on distributional justice. Seven chapters written by sustainability and economics experts plus a foreword by Janez Potočnik (Co-chair of the International Resource Panel and former European Commissioner for the Environment) shed light on different angles of sufficiency and formulate concrete recommendations to EU policy makers. The booklet ends with a discussion of several eco-social policies that can start the transition towards an "economics of enough". Many new ideas for an economic paradigm shift have been developed and discussed at the academic and grassroots levels in recent years. The aim of this booklet is to build on a rich body of knowledge and bring these ideas to the attention of engaged citizens and policy makers in order to advance the debate on how to implement sufficiency."

"Para entender la historia de la humanidad es imprescindible poner el foco en el papel que ha tenido la energía y, en general, en los condicionantes ambientales. Sin embargo, que la energía haya condicionado la historia de la humanidad no quiere decir que la haya determinado, pues las decisiones últimas sobre el orden social son humanas. ... "

Biomímesis Comprender los principios de funcionamiento de los ecosistemas en los que se desarrolla la vida con el objetivo de reconstruir los sistemas productivos humanos de manera que sean compatibles con los sistemas naturales. Aprender de la naturaleza imitándola, implica funcionar a partir de ciclos cerrados de materia movidos por la energía del sol. Reevaluar, reconceptualizar, reestructurar, redistribuir, relocalizar, reducir, reutilizar, reciclar, romper, retomar, reintroducir, reencontrar y reapropiarse, reembolso y restituir, recuperar