Climate Change, Dinosaurs and the State of the Environmental Movement

By Joe Liesman, Resilience.org

The conversation you hear about the environment on CNN is not the conversation taking place in college dorms or outdoors clubs or in community centers or on farms or in the heads of those who hope and fight and when they sleep they dream of mountain air and when they close their eyes at work for just a moment are no further removed from the ocean than the fish who swim in it. And they are getting louder.

The Faux Revolution of Mindfulness

By Ronald Purser, Open Democracy

When we recognize that disaffection, anxiety and stress are not just our own fault but are connected to structural causes, mindfulness becomes fuel for igniting resistance.

A Search for Alternatives in India

By Ashish Kothari, Pallav Das, Empowering Nonviolence

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.

There is an Alternative to Neoliberalism – in Britain and Beyond

By Laurie Macfarlane, openDemocracy

'New Thinking for the British Economy' – a new eBook published today by openDemocracy – brings together leading thinkers to outline the broad pillars of a new post-neoliberal agenda, and the type of policies that are needed to get us there.

The Changing Narrative – A New Ontology for the Progressive Movement?

By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley, Open Coop

An ontology is basically a set of principles or assumption about how the world works; about the fundamental ‘nature of reality’.

Time for Politicians to Get Real about the Anthropocene

By Mathew Lawrence, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Red Pepper

It seems that the short lived cycles of electoral politics means that politicians chase short-term goals, rather than tackling problems such as climate change which require long-term, global thinking. The test of a capable politician in 2018 is whether they take a stand against cavalier resource extraction.

Seven Ways to Think Like a Twenty-First-Century Economist

By Kate Raworth, Resilience.org

Whether you consider yourself an economic veteran or novice, now is the time to uncover the economic graffiti that lingers in all of our minds and, if you don’t like what you find, scrub it out; or, better still, paint it over with new images that far better serve our needs and times.

The Movement to Replace Neoliberalism is on the Ascendency – Where Should it go Next?

By Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Open Democracy

We think there is now broad intellectual convergence across groups around a shared critique of the failings of neoliberalism and the need for a new paradigm. There is slightly looser convergence on the overall goals or values of a new paradigm, largely centring on equity, sustainability and democratisation. However, outside of one or two notable efforts, we have not seen common narratives or policy solutions emerge. Our conclusion is that this results from material barriers to progress, rather than profound differences between groups.

Review: No Is Not Enough

By Samir Dathi, Red Pepper

Despite my various friendly critiques here, it goes without saying that Naomi Klein is one of the most important figures on the radical left today. There are few other activists who are able to make radical arguments that are read by so many and taken seriously in the mainstream.

After Neoliberalism, What Next?

By Jayati Ghosh, Red Pepper

We may be living through one of those moments in history that future historians will look back on as a watershed, a period of flux that marked a transition to quite different economic and social arrangements. Unfortunately, in human history a ‘moment’ can be a very long time...