A Year of War: An Energy Justice Take on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Putin’s war has exposed the fact that nations that lack access to affordable energy and those that are most dependent on fossil fuels are vulnerable.
Russia/Ukraine conflict
Oil companies and the windfalls of war
Do oil companies and their investors have a paramount right to profits earned through no sweat of their brows over families who, through no fault of their own, are forced to make decisions between food and fuel, between keeping the lights on and life-saving medicines?
Norway’s oil deals helped empower Putin. It must learn from its mistakes
We believe that Europe enabled Russia’s descent into fascism. Norway, too, played a role in this.
Green Road of Ecovillages, Six Months into War
The project showed its resilience in conditions of the hard war times and will be able to share this knowledge after the victory.
‘A flame was lit in our hearts’ — How Ukrainians are building online networks for resistance and mutual aid
After witnessing how powerful Ukrainian civilians can be in the face of adversity, people can be hopeful that what kept them together in times of war will work in times of peace.
Hold Fire
There is no long-term strategy or ultimate goal beyond militarise by any and all possible means.
The Other Reason for Putin’s Rush to War: Russian Oil Dependency
These skirmishes illustrate how deeply interwoven petroleum politics has become with the culture and geopolitics of Russian’s foreign policy. This is not the Cold War. Oil dependence is Putin’s bane, and ours.
Ukraine | the Green Road of Ecovillages – Communities that Protect
The Green Road has seen the global and the local Ukrainian ecovillage and permaculture communities involved in ongoing emergency support for people fleeing the war.
The Ukraine War’s Collateral Damage
To have any chance of success in limiting global warming to tolerable levels, the climate-action movement will somehow have to overturn an elite consensus on the importance of geopolitical competition — or else.
The Cost of Living Crisis & the Coming Crash
Driven by fossil fuels, powering new technologies, society (and the global climate) has been completely changed. But like all celebrations, that process is arguably coming to an end; and like all the best parties, those who have had a really good time don’t want it to stop!
Poison for the people — How an exiled activist is countering Russia’s propaganda machine
Because if you stop buying oil, gas and coal from Putin’s Russia it will help you to stop war on Ukraine on the one hand and it will help you to save the climate on the other.
Advancing interconnected solutions to the food, energy and finance crises
As the Ukraine-Russia war continues, a special plenary session would bring together a broad range of critical actors in the global food system to advance integrated solutions to protect the food security of the most vulnerable.