“Spirituality has been a common glue”: An interview with La Via Campesina’s Paul Nicholson
What roles does spirituality play in food sovereignty struggles? To what extent do spirituality and religion support or impede movement building?
Priscilla Claeys
Degrowth is about global justice
The only people that are against these ideas are the capitalist class. The obstacle is not ordinary people. The obstacle is capital. That’s the terrain we need to be fighting on.
Some thoughts on strategy, and climate change, and feeling like you’re not trying your hardest…
“What can I do?”, “How hard should I try?”, “Why aren’t we all on the streets, night after night, fighting for change?”… Perhaps, all we can say at the end of it all is that asking these questions is an important part of the process. A sign that you’re still fighting, still human. You have not given up.
Energy Transition and Economic Sufficiency: Introduction
We need to work out new ways of living—on individual, local, regional, national, and international scales—to prosper without economic growth and to develop our human potential without robbing the opportunities of future generations.
Subverting imperial greenwashing
Max Ajl’s recent book published this year by Pluto Press, entitled A People’s Green New Deal, is a welcome and important contribution to an increasingly crowded and confused conversation on “green” futures.
These apps aim to reduce the social and environmental impacts of food waste
Addressing the food waste epidemic requires us to widen our perspective and develop practical, comprehensive solutions that can be implemented by everyday people. A number of tech companies and nonprofits have developed apps aimed at doing just that.
Fossil fuel cuts: Promises vs plans
The fossil fuel production gap — the difference between global fossil fuel production projected by governments’ plans (red line) and those consistent with 1.5°C- and 2°C-warming pathways (blue and green lines), as expressed in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions released when the extracted fuels are burned — remains large.
After last year, we may need to do more grieving
Practiced and shared well, grief gives voice and value to the diversity of the life journey, expressing and crystallising the whole, often painful canvas of lived experience.
For better or worse, we adapt
We must adapt to climate changes in future, and we are adapting already. But if the adaptations are merely ad hoc and not thoughtfully considered, they are more likely to be maladaptations than great adaptations.
An Ecofeminist Take on the Paris Agreement
In this piece, we argue how ecofeminist theory can help understand nuances and draw insights on the Paris Agreement’s dominant narratives.
Copy-Paste Reporting
Fossil fuel companies often reach for the tools of greenwashing, but this particular instance unintentionally drops a tiny hint on a completely different story in the background.
Jose Luis Vivero Pol: Treat Food as a Commons, not a Commodity
The presumption that food should be a commodity departs from millennia of human history in which societies found ways to share food and ensure that people had enough to eat.
