Unwinding Democracy: What It Means for Climate Change
Democracy survives by the consent of the governed. It requires rules that are fair, just and followed—by everyone. Should the three branches ever become one, democracy will be lost.
Joel Stronberg
Yet Another Benefit of Renewable Energy: It Uses Practically No Water Compared to Fossil Fuels
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently highlighted a little-discussed benefit of using renewables like wind and solar to produce electricity: Unlike most power sources, they require “almost no water.”
Green New Deal: A Bold Vision for America’s Future
On Tuesday 13th November 2018, a group of young climate activists descended on the office of Nancy Palosi, expected to lead the Democrats in the US Congress. They were demanding that she set up a special committee to create a proper climate action plan for the country – a Green New Deal.
‘Fearless’ Amsterdam Government: Digital City goes Social
Firstly, the city’s digital plans begin with instating a Digital City Agenda, setting out Amsterdam’s vision on cyber security, data sovereignty, digital participation and digital services, complex topics that cannot be solved overnight.
Gandhi is Still Relevant – and Can Inspire a New Form of Politics Today
Seventy years after Gandhi’s assassination on the streets of New Delhi, Ramachandra Guha’s new book, Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-48, reopens a familiar debate around his legacy. What was Gandhi’s message? What were his politics? What can we learn from him today? And is he still relevant?
Bringing Agroecology into the UK Agriculture Bill
Agroecological approaches to agriculture improve rural livelihoods, regenerate ecologies and increase the resiliency of communities, while providing healthy and sustainable food.
Ruth Sapsed on Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination
We’ll talk about children leading. That doesn’t mean that we don’t do anything. That means that we’re trying to listen to what they are interested in and come alongside them with those interests.
Protest in Paris: End of the World versus End of the Month
Automobile exhaust is an important contributor to air pollution, but this fuel tax inordinately hits people of moderate to low income who are already using as little gas as possible, cannot afford to live closer to where they need to go or buy a new, fuel-efficient car.
Money: the Silent Killer
An obvious solution to this quandary is to replace electronic private-bank-issued money with something else. Despite a long historical connection between money and private debt, private-debt-free money is eminently possible.
Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment
The solution to these problems involves more than a commitment to ecological models of food production: it also requires a commitment to local food economies.
Analysis: Fossil-fuel Emissions in 2018 Increasing at Fastest Rate for Seven Years
Hopes that global CO2 emissions might be nearing a peak have been dashed by preliminary data showing that output from fossil fuels and industry will grow by around 2.7% in 2018, the largest increase in seven years.
COP24: Climate Protesters Must Get Radical and Challenge Economic Growth
At COP24 environmental movements have an opportunity to use their platform to highlight the relationship between economic growth and environmental impact, and even to discuss radical alternative futures that are not dependent on a growth-based economy.
