CASSE - Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy: CASSE is a non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing the steady state economy, with stabilized population and consumption, as a policy goal with widespread public support:
http://steadystate.org/
CASSE is launching (1/3/10) a new blog called “The Daly News.” Each week it will provide a feature essay that challenges the predominant economic paradigm and explores creative solutions to economic and environmental problems. The core authors include Herman Daly (award-winning economist who developed the concept of the steady state economy), Brian Czech (wildlife biologist, ecological economist, and author of Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train), Brent Blackwelder (former president of Friends of the Earth and founder of American Rivers), and Rob Dietz (environmental scientist and executive director of CASSE). You can access the blog on CASSE’s website (or via RSS feed):
http://steadystate.org/learn/blog/
CASSE also has an entertaining animated short called “Add It Up” that tells the truth about pursuing perpetual economic growth. The animation, produced by film students at the University of Southern California, is available on CASSE’s website and YouTube:
http://steadystate.org/discover/video-audio-and-presentations/ OR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qriegoXcbQ
For more information about these resources and other news about the steady state economy, please read the most recent edition of “The Steady Stater” newsletter:
http://steadystate.org/wp-content/uploads/SteadyStater_vol3_iss1.pdf

More on the dumping of poisonous waste in developing countries: While it might be “out of sight, out of mind” when discarded by affluent consumers, dumped toxic e-waste and other industrial wastes are poisoning the environment of poorer developing countries. Read more at:
http://planetark.org/wen/56837
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/420967/
un_warns_india_and_china_over_growing_problem_of_ewaste.html
http://www.theecologist.org/investigations/waste_and_recycling/421522/
how_we_poison_bangladesh_with_toxic_ship_carcasses.html

EU looks to banning “wonky fruit” - AGAIN! Until the so-called “wonky fruit” ban was lifted in July last year, EU rules dictated the shape and size of produce, from apricots to watermelons, effectively banishing from commercial trade all but the most perfect specimens. At the time the ban was lifted, EU Agriculture Commissioner Marianne Fischer Boel declared: "We simply don't need to regulate this sort of thing at EU level. It is far better to leave it to market operators – and in these days of high food prices and general economic difficulties, consumers should be able to choose from the widest range of products possible. It makes no sense to throw perfectly good products away, just because they are the 'wrong' shape." Unfortunately, this was too sensible. Now protectionist policies are threatening to bring back the ban. Read more at:
http://cruxcatalyst.blogspot.com/2010/03/european-parliament-members-want-to.html

[Thanks to Cruxcatalyst for the links.]