Food and Water: Plugging the Drain before Resources Dry Up
This tug-of-war, in its most elementary terms, is one in which agricultural water use competes with each person’s daily water requirements.
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Neoliberalism Promised Freedom – Instead it Delivers Stifling Control
By rolling back the state, neoliberalism was supposed to have allowed autonomy and creativity to flourish. Instead, it has delivered a semi-privatised authoritarianism.
A Search for Alternatives in India
We’re committed and excited about our attempts at cooperation between academics, movement activists, creative thinkers, and practitioners of alternatives to challenge the ever-tightening grip of corporate fundamentalism on the economy and the environment.
Trump’s Hypocritical Oaths on the Environment
It is being reported that the Trump campaign has put out a call for a list of climate change victories that can be attributed to Trump’s time in office.
Lessons from IATP’s Farm to Head Start Program
For nearly a decade, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy has been engaged in Farm to Early Care and Education (ECE) initiatives, helping connect young children with locally grown foods while fostering an awareness of the importance of healthy food for children, families, farmers and communities.
Introducing Degrowth into Economics
But by systematically presenting a degrowth theory from one particular perspective – an ecological economics perspective with anti-capitalist leanings – the book is a welcome addition to degrowth scholarship.
Green New Deals….Yes….but What does that Mean?
Unfortunately there appears to be little recognition that such a Green New Deal must address a much bigger set of issues than merely climate change.
Is the Green New Deal Dead?
Technically the Green New Deal (GND) has yet to live as a formal legislative proposal as compared to “a sense of resolution.” Therefore, any reports of its demise would be premature.
Standing in the Fire With Young Climate Activists
A global student uprising is underway, with youth worldwide demanding that adults face the climate crisis head on. They need a strong foundation in themselves and adult partnership for the challenges ahead.
Mushrooms Clean Up Our Toxic Messes
Mushrooms have helped remove petroleum from soil everywhere from Orleans, California, where they cleaned up a small motor-oil-and-diesel-fuel spill at a community center, to the Ecuadorian Amazon, where they’re being used to clean up the largest land-based oil spill in history.
Managing a Post-Growth Economy: Circularity, Productivity and Inequality
A conversation between Emanuele Di Francesco and Tim Jackson, discussing post-growth concepts of a circular economy, the limits of labour productivity and the dynamics of inequality.
Deep Solidarity
Reading Jeremy Lent’s excellent post What Will You Say To Your Grandchildren? and seeing it so passionately take issue with Jem Bendell’s “dangerously flawed” calls for Deep Adaptation, I just felt deep solidarity with both.
