Justin Ritchie
Justin Ritchie is the co-host of the radio show, The Extraenvironmentalist, broadcasting on CiTR 101.9 in Vancouver and podcasting online. He is interested in issues of how to build a new society given that our current global order is failing. Justin also works as the AMS Sustainability Coordinator at UBC, where he runs the Sustainability Projects Fund that distributes funding for related projects to students on campus. Through his work as a graduate student at UBC in Materials Engineering, Justin is studying and working on advancing solar cell technology.
Reporting Beat: The current transition from a globalized civilization based on principles of infinite growth to a society that is grappling with shrinking energy availability.
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Stories by Justin Ritchie
Next Economy: Tech Capitalism’s Impossible Dream
Author Doug Rushkoff on how digital platforms are marching us over a financial cliff while ruining the Web.
Next Economy: Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit World?
For-profits are so over, say authors. Part of a Tyee series on capitalism’s crisis.
Next Economy: Bitcoin and New Ways to Do Money
Why cryptocurrency is hot politics. Next in Tyee's series on capitalism in crisis.
Next Economy: The Coming 'Age of Stagnation'
Author Satyajit Das kicks off Tyee series on global capitalism's crisis.
Why Divestment Warriors Should Diversify Their Strategy
Analysis shows that petro-divesting alone can't finance the needed energy transition.
Idea #1: 'MOOC': Saviour of Higher Ed?
'Massive online open courses' may just quell the next student debt revolt. First in a series of Inspiring Ideas for 2013.
Canada's Prized Customer China May Prove a Mirage
China's energy imports are slowing and some experts see cracks in its economy. Should Canada be selling so hard?
Clean Energy's Dirty Secrets
Fantasies of a renewable future obscure our big climate responsibilities, says Ozzie Zehner in 'Green Illusions.'
Planting the Seedstock, Vancouver's New Currency
Though past local initiatives never took root, a new system targeting food production aims to buck the trend.
Visualizing BC's Climate Changed Future
How to drive home the impacts of a warming province? Stephen Sheppard and his UBC team offer a glimpse.
Bill Rees' Last Lecture
Retiring after 40 years, one of Canada's intellectual eco-giants leaves behind a tremendous footprint.
Is Canada Ignoring Signs of a Coming Economic Collapse?
Two experts lecturing in Vancouver warn resource-rich nations aren't immune.
Do Less with Less, and Love It
That's the message of Vancouver's Degrowth advocates, who scoff at city hall's 'greenest city' pledge.
Postcard from Europe, Verging on Collapse
I spent my vacation with protesters and feral dogs in roiling Greece and Granada. Wish you were here?
Reinventing Collapse in the US
With the American economy teetering, Dmitry Orlov sees similarities in another 'superpower collapse.' Is he just a doomsayer?
