{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"095 Environmental Economics - Counting What Counts","description":"A Sustainability Now Interview with Josh Farley What if our metrics for economic health are simply upside down? How can a \u201chealthy\u201d economy\u2014measured by rising GDP\u2014coexist with ecological collapse, mental health crises, and widening inequality? Josh Farley, ecological economist, isn\u2019t just rethinking economics\u2014he\u2019s redesigning it. A professor at the University of Vermont and Fellow at the Gund Institute for Environment, his work bridges economics, ethics, and ecology, challenging the very foundation of how we think about money, nature, and our collective future. With clarity and a sharp eye for absurdity, Farley unpacks the dangerous delusion of GDP as a measure of well-being\u2014revealing how our systems reward depletion and call it growth, while sidelining equity, health, and ecological integrity. Instead, he offers a new paradigm: one that prioritizes regeneration over extraction and collective stewardship over unchecked consumption. It\u2019s not just a critique\u2014it\u2019s a grounded, hopeful invitation to redesign economics for a world that actually works. If you\u2019ve ever sensed that the numbers aren\u2019t telling the whole story\u2014this conversation is the deeper math you\u2019ve been waiting for. ","author_name":"Sustainability Now - exploring technologies and paradigms to shape a world that works","author_url":"https:\/\/www.sustainabilitynow.global\/","html":"