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A place to begin

Welcome to the Eoc Eco Aus Blog! My name is Aeronwyn and I am the content creator, owner, and economist at Eco Eco Aus.  This is my first post on the blog and for it, I would like to share a life-defining moment, a beginning moment that would ultimately bring me here. Let's take a dive back in time to my early years at University, back when I was trying to figure it all out.  When I started my Bachelor's of Commerce back in 2017, I had no idea where I would finish in 2020. I started it because I knew I would need to change careers but I wasn't sure what I would change it to. At the time, I thought I would pursue careers in management or HR but the moment of truth actually came in the middle of 2019. At this stage, I was 1.5 years into my degree and had chosen my major as economics but I still needed to work out what I planned to do with it after uni so I could come up with a plan and chart my course accordingly. This question was a primary focus during my 2-week hiking holi...

Welcome!

 Welcome to the Eco Eco Aus blog!  Here you will find posts that explore a range of topics from ecological economics, value, happiness and using economics in the everyday world.  The blog will primarily be designed to explore my growing understandings of being an Ecological Economist but will also explore how economics can be used to understand happiness and value.  By design, the blog will not be limited to one topic or theme and will remain open to a variety of topics to allow the full creative flow of inspiration to continue. The idea is that the blog encompasses the fullness of a learning journey that cannot be limited to one theme or part of life as nothing is separate from the whole. Everything is connected to everything else and by allowing the economics of happiness to blend and merge with the economics of the environment the understandings between the two fields deepen by more than the sum of its parts.   At its heart, it chronicles my own journey ...