Is 2020 the Opening for a Just Transition?
As the U.S. considers how to reopen, stimulate, and recover its economy post-pandemic, how radically could it be reimagined?
Society
Bolivia | Reflections on the Inaugural Addresses of President Luis Arce and Vice President David Choquehuanca
In these notes, we outline some very brief reflections based on the inaugural speeches that Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca delivered on November 8, 2020, when they assumed, respectively, the offices of President and Vice President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
How Paris’s public water supply is beating Covid
Within a year of being created, Eau de Paris had cut 30 million euros in operating costs and brought the price of water down 8%. Accounting for inflation, a cubic meter of water in Paris today still costs less than it did a decade ago.
The Kind of Heroes We Need to Actually Save the Planet
As storytellers, we plant beliefs that blossom into the structure of the world. In these times, we need a new structure—a narrative built on climate justice.
The Transformative Power of Water: Flood Survivor/Activist Katherine Egland Fights the Struggle for Human Dignity
Around the world, across cultures and time, water has manifested itself as both life-creating and life-destroying. Never static, it constantly changes and transforms those in its wake. This is profoundly true for Katherine Egland.
Care as Commons: A Brief Introduction
A broader political economy of care can make visible the interdependence and reciprocity that are fundamental parts of our social world.
The Art of the Legal Hack, as Pioneered by Janelle Orsi
SELC has advised over 1,500 grassroots groups, and when necessary, initiated policy initiatives to try to change laws and regulations that otherwise impede collective ownership and commoning.
Why Do We Struggle? For the Shared Enjoyment of Life and Caring For the Rest of Nature
In 2020 I have frequently found that those who campaign to overcome capitalism from a socialist perspective (in my case, with an ecommunitarian vision) are so pressured by the urgencies of daily action that they lose sight of the final goal of the struggle.
A Small Farm Future: Could it happen in Wales?
We have here the ambitious groundwork, global in scale, for exactly the case for a small farm future that Smaje set out to write.
Where’s the Political Leadership We Need?
We face big transitions requiring sacrifice and hard truths from the top. Instead our leaders act like used car salesmen.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 22 Kumi Naidoo
Kumi’s current roles include Professor of Practice, Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University; Global Ambassador, and Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity.
Kumi shares his thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right?
Podcast from the Prairie: Mad About Science
In Episode 3, titled “Mad about Science,” host Robert Jensen asks Wes how formal science differs from, and is similar to, the folk science he learned on the farm growing up.
