Solving the Climate Crisis Requires the End of Capitalism
The global conversation regarding climate change has, for the most part, ignored the elephant in the room.
Society
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 56 Kamea Chayne
Kamea Chayne is a Hakka-Taiwanese creative, writer, the author of Thrive, and the host of the Green Dreamer podcast. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
The African Earth Jurisprudence Collective: Navigating towards a Resilient Future
A new, uniquely African hope is emerging to counter threats to the continent’s most precious ecosystems and to revive ways of life that restore the relationship between communities and their lands and waters after centuries of colonial harm.
Dear Mr. Paulson, Re Your Recent NY Times Op-Ed about Mass Extinction
It’s past time to quit the cowboy economics, to hang up the hats and put away the spurs. To salvage both nature and humanity, pretty much everything about how we conduct human society must change. So what are you doing to help? I mean actually doing?
Challenging Power by Building Democratic Autonomy in Rojava / North and East Syria
Democratic Autonomy means that despite of and parallel to the oppressive structures of the nation-state, local and regional people’s councils, cooperatives, academia, and self-defence forces are being built up.
Radically rethinking urban planning in (and from) the Global South
At a time when the spaces we inhabit determine our chances to survive a deadly virus, it is crucial to challenge canonical urban planning and its deep failures in the Global South.
It’s meant to hurt: allowing our feelings on climate will promote action and reduce conflict
Such transformation can go much further than cutting emissions, drawing down carbon or simple adaptations. It can even go beyond changing our mindsets. It could transform what I call our “heart-set”, so that whatever comes next, we will face it with an unwavering and universal love.
Why Citizens and not Workers
What can help us move in the direction of a genuine social emancipation is not the passive belonging to a certain social stratum, be it economic or other, but the active stance and praxis in everyday life.
How one organization is keeping the spirit of Occupy Wall Street alive
While many see Occupy as a failure or victory for the left, Momentum understands it as a lesson that needs to be dissected and understood.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 55 William Ury
William Ury, co-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, is one of the world’s best-known practitioners of negotiation and mediation. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
What if young people reimagined the education system?
Our current system is clearly not educating young people for the time of the climate and ecological emergency, for a world that is more socially just, equitable and embracing of diversity in all its forms.
Bodies—Human and Planetary
You’re a big Mobius strip that ultimately is not separate from the environment at all, but woven into it—covered and integrated with other species from start to finish.
