Green Colonialism and African Futures: Interrogating the Just Transition from Below

Across the continent, from the DRC to South Africa, large-scale energy and infrastructure projects are being pushed in the name of climate goals. Yet, as multiple speakers highlighted, these projects often bypass the very communities they claim to serve. People are not at the centre of these plans; they are at best an afterthought, at worst a disposable obstacle.

‘Money commons’: review of the Collaborative Finance (CoFi) Gathering

For a long time, I wasn’t quite sure if I should go to the CoFi #3 conference in Austria. But collaborative finance fascinates me, even if my knowledge of it is a bit fuzzy, and there were going to  be speakers whose work I admired. Curious to learn more, I therefore travelled almost at the last minute to the venue in the Austrian Alps.

What I learned this week

In this week’s Frankly, Nate shares a handful of things he’s learned in the past few days that have implications for the Great Simplification. What does it mean to have a “climate-induced credit crunch” across the financial sector? What’s up with the recent tariffs on copper, and what connotations does this hold for the Great Simplification? 

The Great Lady of Deep Ecology has left us

Joanna, a shining being, even in her absence, becomes more present. This was her final gift—to reveal the ambiguity of being/not-being, the forever fragile home of the deepest grief, the greatest love and the most profound compassion. To live in that ambiguity with the same compassion that flowed from the heart of her being becomes our charge to go forth now.