Democracy Rising 3: Deliberation and Ecological Resilience
The world is heating up; parts are it are already ablaze. But democratic deliberation isn’t futile fiddling—it’s a precondition of dousing the flames.
Society
The body as territory: The Arhuacos: A message from the Mamos, the prophets of the Sierra Nevada
As Mamo Camilo Izquierdo said, “The destruction of nature produces illness from the diseases that we see today.” The wellness of all beings — including the living water that springs from the earth — is essential for our own well-being.
In Praise of Laziness
I firmly believe in the virtues of laziness. I would see a return to economic un-productivity. Happily, I also doubt wage-work will survive as we are forced to focus on meeting our own needs using less transport and fewer resources.
The body as territory: The Misaks: Balance and harmony as medicine
Balance and harmony are so fundamental for the Misak people’s way of life that they are willing to go to the streets to fight for it, if necessary – but always peacefully, and with their face masks firmly in place.
Reflections on tsunamis, determination and a week in Glasgow
And so I leave Glasgow not optimistic or pessimistic, but infinitely more determined. And feeling like the power, the flow, the surge of Friday and Saturday’s tsunamis will carry us forward. I feel it at my back, I feel it in my stomach, and I will feel it forever.
Human rights depend on a thriving natural world
We must make the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment a universal, legally binding human right, starting with the UN codifying this new declaration into existing treaties, then making it legally binding on the national and international level.
An unjust transition: Energy, colonialism and extractivism in occupied Western Sahara
While an end to the Moroccan occupation and full decolonization are integral to a Saharawi just transition, the SADR government’s ability to ensure popular sovereignty over Western Sahara’s energy resources will also be of fundamental importance.
The body as territory: The Kamëntšá Biyá: Land use planning in defense of the sacred
In this transmedia series, we will enter three very different emblematic indigenous communities in Colombia through the eyes of three different indigenous reporters — a journalist and two filmmakers— to tell their stories of community resilience.
The Three Phases of Human History
We are living through the dawn of a new phase in human history. We are about to make our relationship with the Earth the most important aspect of our lives.
The IMAJINE Project
How can dreaming up futures which might never happen help communities to build resilience and address the challenges of a changing world?
Climate Adaptation: Excerpt
Those who choose to pursue this line of work will understand localised decision-making for the Earth’s survival and bringing back species that are on the brink of extinction. Furthermore, everyone outside of these cooperatives will be additionally grateful for their existence, for the goodness that is extended to everyone will be shared by all of life.
Outdated cultures behind America’s failing political system
The political systems of Western liberal democracy are failing. Blinkered by their cultures, most politicians and journalists do not see the extent of this failure.
