How seed funding nourishes community action
A seed funding grant could allow you to take the next step forward and open up new, unforeseen possibilities for change – where will you go?
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The Ghana Susu: Reimagining Financial Development
In Ghana, a centuries-old financial system called Susu provides an example of effective bottom-up development that contributes meaningfully to reducing poverty and economic inequality.
Where are all the people?
So where are all the people? Well, if they’re sensible, they’re doing work for themselves. They are building and mending their own lives.
Graphite: A new energy economy resource is suddenly harder to get
More and more countries are becoming stingy about what natural resources they will ship abroad. That has implications for new energy economy products and industries.
How Community Energy Initiatives Can Be an Effective Tool for Degrowth
Financial resources, both local and international, should support decentralized, citizen/community-led initiatives rather than large-scale private renewable energy projects that do not align with degrowth principles. It is time to prioritize community and the environment over profit in the energy sector.
A common enemy: colonialism and imperialism
If imperialism is what happens when empires expand then colonialism is how they do it.
Disastrous capitalism in Morocco in wake of earthquake
The term ‘neoliberal earthquake’ may seem like a cliche, but in the context of the recent natural disaster in Morocco, it really does encompass some of the defining elements of contemporary capitalism.
Three Telling Takeaways from Climate Week in New York City
Climate Week thus provided an opportunity to gauge how steady staters can engage strategically with different actors in the contemporary environmental movement.
Abandoning the Poor
Will we continue to condemn tens of millions of us to cruel and unnecessary poverty, while feeding the drive to authoritarianism or even an all-American version of fascism, or will we move swiftly and compassionately to begin lifting the load of poverty and so strengthen the very foundation of our democracy?
Doughnut: what’s enough… or too much?
What exactly is the doughnut? Think of it as an economic compass, artfully crafted to address people’s needs while also respecting the Earth’s boundaries and the vitality of our planet.
Yanis Varoufakis’s “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?”
Now, in Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, Yanis Varoufakis – the “libertarian Marxist” former finance minister of Greece – makes an excellent case that capitalism died a decade ago, turning into a new form of feudalism: technofeudalism:
The convergence: climate and economy become one
At a minimum, we must align the signifiers of economic success with known ecological indicators — and this is just the first step on a long, complex realignment. If we fail to undertake this journey, we will be stuck paying for our own apocalypse.
