‘Major Hurdle’ Cleared As Youth Activists Advance Historic Climate Case
An unprecedented climate lawsuit brought by six Portuguese youths is to be fast-tracked at Europe’s highest court, it was announced yesterday.
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Diné grassroots sow precedent in clean energy history
Nicole Horseherder was glad to receive the news of Arizona Public Service Company’s proposed Just and Equitable Transition assistance package to the Navajo Nation.
Economics and the environment
If I’m asked about the role economics plays in the environment and sustainability, my answer would be ‘what kind of economics are you talking about’?
Detroit’s Eastern Market: Supporting food producers in a crisis
The Eastern Market cooperates with community groups and charitable organisations across the city – from garden initiatives helping growers to Detroit Kitchen Connect, which supports food entrepreneurs every step of the way.
No easy answers: a response to Alex Heffron and Kai Heron
There are no easy answers to the dilemmas of creating just and renewable post-capitalist societies.
A Cornerstone of a Moral Economy
A full-fledged UBI—one that unconditionally provides every person with enough income to meet their basic needs—would fundamentally alter the paradigm of capitalism that has locked workers into the dominant system ever since its inception.
Facilitating communities of practice: from individual to ecosystem learning outcomes
The concept ‘community of practice’ is underpinned by an assumption that learning is a social process rather than a passive act of knowledge transfer between a knowledge giver (usually a master, expert or teacher) and a knowledge receiver (usually an apprentice, a novice or student).
Facing the Anthropocene: An Update
It may be helpful to outline some important recent developments in Anthropocene science in the two main fields involved: geology, and Earth System science.
Resources for a better future: Political ecology
Like a toolbox to unpack and understand the complexity of the socio-ecological crises we live in, political ecology is dedicated to a more just and inclusive world.
Putting the Vaccine Buzz into Perspective
The reality is that pandemics don’t stop on a dime, vaccines can’t be rushed and their safe delivery is quite complicated.
Announcing “Agroecology in Motion: Nourishing Transformation”
From the acceleration of the climate crisis, the dangerous decline of biodiversity and Covid-19 to the sustained and committed work of social movements to raise agroecology’s profile – agroecology is now gaining recognition and momentum as an alternative to a failing food system.
Low prices batter oil industry (and later the rest of us)
Low prices which seem felicitous now could foreshadow instability and trouble ahead. The world still depends on oil for about one-third of its energy needs.
