By Hadas Weiss, Open Democracy
Jeremy Corbyn’s announcement last month that a Labour government would replace social mobility with social justice as a policy benchmark raised more than a few eyebrows. It goes against received wisdom and bipartisan consensus that social mobility is a good thing.
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
A recent report from the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) confirms that the current food system isn’t sustainable neither for the environment nor for our health. Organic agriculture, conservation farming and agro-ecology are key technologies for a transition to a sustainable food system, which also has to shun artificial nitrogen fertilizers.
By Fabian Scheidler, Degrowth.de
Many people think that technological development follows a path directed by quasi-natural laws that head into one and only one direction – called “progress” – which is: to use more technology, more complex technology, more expensive technology, more powerful technology.
By Asher Miller, Post Carbon Institute
The transition to 100% renewable energy raises profound questions for the future of justice and equity...
By Sven Eberlein, Shareable
...if we invest in the most marginalized communities within our cities that are trapped behind invisible social and economic borders, everyone, including the planet, benefits.
By Jen Hinton, Donnie Maclurcan, Post Growth
Our common future lies with an economy beyond the accumulation of wealth and, therein, the debt structures that support this accumulation.
By Robert Jensen, Alternet
The agricultural revolution produced the first systematic extractive model, which set us on a road to eventual collapse.