What are Systemic Alternatives?
The premise of systemic alternatives is that the environmental, economic, social, geopolitical, institutional and civilizational crises are part of a whole, are interrelated and feed into one another.
Pablo Solón
When People Downsize to Tiny Houses, they Adopt more Environmentally Friendly Lifestyles
Interest is surging in tiny homes – livable dwelling units that typically measure under 400 square feet. Much of this interest is driven by media coverage that claims that living in tiny homes is good for the planet.
ExxonMobil Misled the Public. Now they’re Trying to Mislead the European Parliament
Although ExxonMobil now claim to support climate action, they continue to misrepresent scientific work in order to protect profits and protect themselves from liability or responsibility.
Existential risk, Neoliberalism and UN Climate Policymaking
International climate policymaking has failed to avoid a path of catastrophic global warming. Two often-overlooked causes of this failure are how climate-science knowledge has been produced and utilised by the United Nation’s twin climate bodies and how those organisations function.
Energy Transition in India and Southeast Asia, Part 1
At the same time, India is busily electrifying 18,000 villages, pushing forward on the electrification of transportation, and developing demand-side technologies that together are more likely to make India one of the world’s great success stories in energy transition than one of the world’s largest upcoming carbon emitters.
Food and Water: Plugging the Drain before Resources Dry Up
This tug-of-war, in its most elementary terms, is one in which agricultural water use competes with each person’s daily water requirements.
Neoliberalism Promised Freedom – Instead it Delivers Stifling Control
By rolling back the state, neoliberalism was supposed to have allowed autonomy and creativity to flourish. Instead, it has delivered a semi-privatised authoritarianism.
A Search for Alternatives in India
We’re committed and excited about our attempts at cooperation between academics, movement activists, creative thinkers, and practitioners of alternatives to challenge the ever-tightening grip of corporate fundamentalism on the economy and the environment.
Trump’s Hypocritical Oaths on the Environment
It is being reported that the Trump campaign has put out a call for a list of climate change victories that can be attributed to Trump’s time in office.
A Green New Deal for Agriculture
The Green New Deal’s success depends on refashioning this common sense. To rewrite common sense is to unpick the alliances that the current bloc works to maintain, to find the fault lines that can pry that bloc apart, and to develop the organizational links that can build a counter-hegemonic bloc.
Lessons from IATP’s Farm to Head Start Program
For nearly a decade, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy has been engaged in Farm to Early Care and Education (ECE) initiatives, helping connect young children with locally grown foods while fostering an awareness of the importance of healthy food for children, families, farmers and communities.
Introducing Degrowth into Economics
But by systematically presenting a degrowth theory from one particular perspective – an ecological economics perspective with anti-capitalist leanings – the book is a welcome addition to degrowth scholarship.
