Amazon avengers
Now Indigenous people are joining forces and forming a movement of movements that is inspiring people and movements the world over.
How the Indigenous Amazigh people in Morocco fight for language and land
The Imazighen’s more recent anti mining struggle began on August 20, 2011, when activists from Imider — a municipality with more than seven villages — climbed Mount Alebban in the High Atlas Mountains and shut down a pipeline diverting water from the reservoir to a silver mine that has been operational for nearly four decades.
Oxford Real Farming Conference 2023 | Sixteen Must-See Sessions
It looks set to be another stimulating start to the year for real foodies and regenerative farmers as the Oxford Real Farming Conference, “the largest gathering of the agroecological movement on the planet”, returns from 4 – 6 January 2023.
That’s Another Fine Mess You Got Us Into: We Cannot Leave Energy to the Mercy of the Market
Without a hairs’ breadth in between, the world lurched from a global pandemic into a cost of living crisis and the worst energy crisis since the 1970s.
‘Public Trust’—A Key Legal Tool to Preserve Our Natural Resources
Law professor Mary Wood breaks down how people can protect their right to clean air, water, and land as well as fortify their climate change resiliency.
John Thackara on Designing for Life
John Thackara is one of the brilliant irregulars exploring how humankind can make the transition to a climate-friendly, relocalized, post-capitalist world.
Climate, Covid & Wishful Thinking
The challenges presented by climate chaos and the Covid-19 pandemic have both elicited cultural responses that superficially appear to be opposed to one another, but that end up working hand-in-hand to bolster a status quo that’s intrinsically harmful to everyone. Both succeed by appealing to wishful thinking.
Book Review: The Magic of the World’s Soggy Places
There are many little examples of hope in the world: wetlands revived, trees regrowing, laws changing in radical and important ways to protect instead of destroy nature.
Grassroots democracy and peoples’ alternative practices in Southeast Asia
The exercise of grassroots democracy, however, need not focus on the state and its formal institutions. The role of the state is not intrinsic to the practice of grassroots democracy.
Giorgos Kallis: “Cultural Surplus and ‘Dépense’”
Perhaps, the larger purpose of degrowth scholarship (and conversations like these) is to act as Overton Windows – to help people imagine and actualize behaviors and networks that will help us adjust in a post-growth world.
What to grow in 2023?
So as I was already grousing about the pantry, I decided to review my garden plan for next year… and found it woefully inadequate.
How Britain fell in and out of love with roads
Welcome to the modern world. Just at the point in history when we needed to manage our consumption, we had installed all the conditions for a fossil-fuel driven boom in consumerism.
