By Sol Trumbo Vila, Transnational Institute
The Transformative Cities People´s Choice Award and the Atlas of Utopias are intended as a process and a tool to give greater visibility and resources to local practices that preconfigure post-capitalism, thus facilitating its spread and prosperity.
By Juan Bordera Romá, Fastlove Studios
By Martin Kalungu-Banda, Presencing Institute
By ARC2020 Staff, ARC2020
In France, collective farms are quite common (known as a Groupement Agricole d’Exploitation en Commun, or GAEC). Social issues on the farm are central to farming in a collective set-up. But these farmers are also keen to look beyond the farm to build community and connection.
By Neil Grant, Ajay Gambhir, Carbon Brief
Many model pathways designed to meet the climate goals of the Paris Agreement rely heavily on large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR), also known as “negative emissions”.
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
The number of climate litigation cases around the world has more than doubled since 2015 – the year the Paris Agreement was signed.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
The 21 young plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States will mark their six-year anniversary just days from now. They first petitioned the federal District Court for the District of Oregon on August 12, 2015.
By Ted Trainer, Resilience.org
What a marvellous book! A powerful refutation of one of the most deeply entrenched and mistaken assumptions built into our taken-for-granted world view, and thus leading to many wrong-headed practices.
By Ugo Bardi, The Seneca Effect
Of course, Afghanistan has no oil, and this much was known. But in the 1990s the oil reserves of the Caspian region, adjacent to Afghanistan, had been the object of a game of aggrandizing that led to exaggerating their extent at least of an order of magnitude.
By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
Intact old-growth forests remain our best natural defence against dangerous climate volatility because they have witnessed the greatest climatic variations overtime.
By Alex Sakalis, Open Democracy
“All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination,” wrote the novelist Leonardo Sciascia. Indeed, the island has always emanated a slightly mythical air, neither quite real, nor quite imaginary, like a kind of Mediterranean Shangri-La.
By Bella DeWaan, Inequality.org
To end the boom-and-bust cycle of distressed real estate, the proliferation of private equity landlords, rent increases, tenant displacement, and homelessness, the Housing Justice for All Coalition formed.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
We have a need of skills. We are too much enamored of the tools we’ve made. We believe these tools have freed us from hard labor, hand labor, back labor; but it seems to me that we are working harder than ever.
By Phila Back, Phila Back blog
At this time everyone, as parts of the human systems constituted by communities, polities and humanity as a whole, must consciously, collectively and urgently strive to realize the ecological civilization.
By Kamran Nayeri, Our Place in the World
Degrowth shines a light on the problem of growth on a planet with finite resources. It also envisions a smaller human society living on a shrinking economic pie...
By Craig Holdrege, Resilience.org
I describe this dialogic endeavor here as “living perenniality.” I see in it the beginnings of a radical transformation of consciousness that has the potential to let the wisdom of the living world increasingly inform human endeavors.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
I wannabe a voice as best I can for those tried and tested strategies of innumerable small-scale and peasant farmers down the ages who for the most part never left a script, never had a book to sell, a big idea or a guru to promote, but who I believe have nevertheless still left much from which people today can learn.
By Tom Murphy, eScholarship
Where is humanity going? How realistic is a future of fusion and space colonies? What constraints are imposed by physics, by resource availability, and by human psychology? Are default expectations grounded in reality?
By Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson’s passionate and provocative book dares us to imagine a world beyond capitalism – a place where relationship and meaning take precedence over profits and power.
By Laura Roth, Transnational Institute
Based on their concrete situations, such as pollution, lack of housing, or lack of drinking water, people are able to build a relational power that challenges and changes reality.
By Kamran Nayeri, Our Place in the World
Ecocentric Socialism distinguishes itself from all other theories of socialism and ecosocialism by a conscious attention to the problem of alienation from nature as manifested in anthropocentrism.
By Juan Bordera Romá, Fastlove Studios
In order to close the circle, the commons must be that which helps to provide the minimum subsistence that guarantees a decent quality of life.
By Kamran Nayeri, Our Place in the World
The most important of these questions was this: “How does Ecocentric Socialism differ from other theories of socialism and ecosocialism?” To explain this is the task of this essay.
By Hilary Wainwright, Red Pepper
Paint Your Town Red clearly maps new forms of democratic collectivism across the UK. We catch glimpses of an alternative strategy beyond inner party struggles and electoral tactics.
By Juan Bordera Romá, Fastlove Studios
The Black Elephant In The Room, in this case, is that nothing grows forever. Unlike what our system – the Elephant in The Room – pretends to do, which is designed to do so and doesn’t know how to slow down.