Against “Ecological Consciousness”: Why We Need Ecological Literacy, Not Mystified Unity
The Earth doesn’t need us at all, it certainly doesn’t need us to awaken. It needs us to pay attention, to get involved, and to become ecologically literate.
How One Young Farmer Became the Hero of the Day in Kwali
At Rural Watch Africa Initiative (RUWAI), we believe that empowering one young person can ignite transformation across generations.
Neither the either nor the or: for a sideways degrowth
Within degrowth, we can and should continue to debate theories and strategies. But if we want to meaningfully engage with system transformation, we must recognise the pluriversal essence of the degrowth contribution and offer our analytical tools to support the anti-capitalist struggles, becoming thus an attribute – or adjective – of existing political proposals.
Overcoming Divisions and Building Power for the Just Green Transition: The Case for Climate-Labour Alliances
Forging new alliances between previously disjointed social movements has the potential to significantly build their popular power. The story of Germany’s “Wir Fahren Zusammen” coalition shows how these alliances might be built in practice.
2025: A Space Absurdity
Space stunts might remain impressive for all time, but the likely destiny is that they become silly in the way so many impressive stunts have.
Crazy Town: Episode 112. Unsung Heroes: Sustainability Gurus Who Influenced the Crazy Town Worldview
Some key understandings in Crazy Town: the Earth is finite; the economy cannot grow forever; people can harm ecosystems and cause global warming; physics, chemistry, and biology are real; inequality hurts everyone; healthy humans need community, and it’s more fun to laugh than to cry. But where did principles like these originate?
Angels of Backlands: How Traditional Knowledge is Saving Forgotten Lands
The Caatinga’s story isn’t one of survival in a dryland ecosystem – it’s a lesson of looking for the hidden patterns, finding alliances, and being patient. Well, and about fate of course. Because, if a forgotten biome can regrow from dust, what else might be possible?
Depletion?
But whether we act sensibly and start a controlled descent or just lean into the nosedive (which is where I think we’re heading), we have passed the point of no return. We have passed peak demand, meaning peak production, meaning peak economic activity. And oil companies know that…
Investing in fear: how economic destabilization drives extractive cultural feedback loops in mineral extraction
Investing in cultural shifts towards community and environmental health may provide beneficial alternatives away from traditional fear-driven accumulation of wealth, benefiting cultural and social resilience, while increased attention to environmental regulations may prevent further damage wrought by mineral extraction.
Let’s Talk About Communism
To live justly, then, is to live in common. Not through coercion or conformity, but through recognition — that our survival depends on the health of the shared systems we inhabit. Without that awareness, every revolution remains partial, every justice incomplete.
What Sloths Teach Us About the Superorganism
Can we stand our ground locally against the global superorganism? How can we begin to reclaim agency and compassion – both for ourselves and the ecosystems we are inextricably a part of? Do our instincts no longer serve us in a world so rapidly and radically changed?
Gratitude in the Great Unraveling
If collective survival is possible, there will be a lot of work ahead. We’ll be more effective in that work if we’re unburdened by hate and recrimination, and are instead rooted in gratitude for life, nature, and community.
