Ingredients for a decolonial politics – cooking up a future to delight in
By Eva Schonveld, Justin Kenrick, Radical Ecological Democracy
As we work together to re-discover and build new empowering political systems of collective decision making, and life-giving economic systems that can meet our real needs, how do we ensure that they stay true to the intentions we’re setting out with? How do we surface, heal and create alternatives to our internalized and cultural habits of domination?
Business as Usual is a Failure for our Climate Emergency
By Kate Dyer, Justin Kenrick, Eva Schonveld, Scott Herrett, Mim Black, Bella Caledonia
Assemblies can be the way to break the business as usual logjam that is paralysing effective action. For that, they need to be given the time and range of expert input to be able to arrive at their own understanding of the level of the emergency, and the transformations needed to address it.
Ending systems of domination: Reclaiming our bodies and politics from global trauma
By Eva Schonveld, Justin Kenrick, Radical Ecological Democracy
As the sun goes down on a system that cannot save us from itself, our only option is to bring that system to an end. But what is that system, and how do we replace it?
How can we safely collapse systems of domination, and so, flourish?
By Justin Kenrick, Eva Schonveld, Global Tapestry of Alternatives
The climate chaos that we are witnessing makes it inescapably clear that dominating others harms oneself, and that this system of domination will inevitably end—whether through ecological disasters or our collective action.
Politics, Trauma and Empathy: Breakthrough to a politics of the heart?
By Eva Schonveld, Justin Kenrick, Medium
We can choose to believe the future is inescapably set in stone, and thereby make it so; or we can dare to create an opening for a different future, and so give us all a chance.
Just Doing My Job
By Eva Schonveld, Transition Network
The relief we feel when we no longer have to pretend to be other than we really are will be echoed across the natural world, as we relax and put our energies into showering the love for ourselves, one another and the wider world that we are made for.
A chance is enough
By Mandy Meikle, Eva Schonveld, Transition Network
Transition is providing an alternative and showing that not only is it possible to think differently, it's also possible to take actions in the world which change things. It's important to give people a sense that we could make a different future because one of the biggest things that we're up against is that the majority of people can't see beyond the way that we do things now. Whether they think that's great or whether they think it's rubbish, there's a real feeling of people not having any hope that things could be any different. And many don't want to change.
Power to the people; citizen and energy independence
By Eva Schonveld, Energy Bulletin
I'm a great supporter of community energy generation, but I want to talk about another form of energy, one which I consider to be an essential component of our future energy economy, and perhaps more importantly, one which could affect our fundamental sense of wellbeing. I'm talking about food: human fuel.