Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Documentary “Terra Vista” depicts the journey of a settlement of Brazil’s Landless Peasants Movement (MST) to recover a degraded territory and establish autonomous and agroecological cacao production.
While the world continues to consume paper in ever greater amounts, the idea that we can preserve all our knowledge electronically is catching hold. Is that really a good idea?
Paleoanthropologist Curtis Marean has developed a comprehensive explanation based on a synthesis of research and archaeological evidence for what propelled H. sapiens to leave Africa about 70,000 years ago and colonize every part of the world, replacing other existing hominin populations. Key to the process is “hyperprosociality,” by which Marean means the ability to cooperate with people who are not relatives.
Agrivoltaics is an emerging dual-use approach where land both generates power from solar panels and maintains agricultural production.
Either we stop global warming, or global warming stops us. “Sustainable socioeconomic development” is no longer on the menu.
While a positivist science is often privileged in research, agroecology implies the mobilisation of different kinds of knowledges that reflect the multiple dimensions of agroecology as a science, practice and social movement.
What can be said about globalized tech when our earthly existence is consumed by viral uncertainties, urgent climatic shifts, and perpetual socio-environmental precarity and violence?
For families who can’t pay high upfront costs for solar energy, cooperatives offer a solution.
In this podcast, Affiliate Post Growth Fellow, Djémilah Hassani, speaks to Social & Solidarity Economy leaders from French overseas territories — from the Indian Ocean to South America — to explore how these small nations are making an outsize contribution to the development of an an “economy of dignity”, leveraging collaborations, innovations, and existing cultural practices to pioneer pathways towards economic reconciliation.
As conflict rages around them, Ukrainian conservationists persevere in restoring the Danube Delta, one of Europe’s most prized ecosystems.
Respecting the humanity and history of soil can help us grow a more resilient future for all.
Inspired by Kate Raworth’s pioneering book Doughnut Economics, Brandsberg-Engelmann instigated a collaborative project to create a comprehensive Regenerative Economics syllabus.
