By Joe Herbert, Degrowth.de
With increasing interest in the concept likely to persist, the most optimistic reading of the 15-minute city is to view it as a hook on which there is potential to attach a transformative urban socio-ecological agenda, but only if competing capitalist interests can be successfully fended off.
By Amy Goodman, Clint Smith, Democracy Now
What name is there for this sort of violence? What do you call it when the road you walk on is named for those who imagined you under a noose? What do you call it when the roof over your head is named after people who would have wanted the bricks to crush you?
By Amitabha Sarkar, Transnational Institute
The demand for vaccine citizenship is an opportune moment to create bonds between people across borders. This is a time to shoot for progressive internationalism.
By Nick Anim, Transition Network
How do we turn those visions from rewilded imaginations into reality? How might ideas of initiatives for environmental sustainability and social justice drive transformative collective action?
By Vicki Robin, Victor Lee Lewis, Resilience.org
Victor Lee Lewis is a progressive life coach, trainer, speaker, and Founder of the Radical Resilience Institute. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Heidi Chow, New Internationalist
Ensuring equitable vaccine access is about human rights. And access should never have been determined by wealth.
By Abigail Sykes, Marissa Mommaerts, Transition Network
Young people aren’t going to be attracted to Transition if it stays in its little bubble. I think there’s widespread understanding that Transition needs to reach beyond the choir.
By Nick Amin, Abigail Sykes, Transition Network
But we have to recognise our own part in perpetuating the system. If you don’t care for another human being, what is the point of life?
By Sarah McAdam, Abigail Sykes, Transition Network
I think what’s fundamental to the Transition approach is that we bring people together to find new solutions to entrenched problems. Essential to that is to have the perspectives of all the people who are affected.
By Sonja Hennen, Degrowth.de
In order to overcome social and environmental injustices, we have no choice but to abandon the naturalized and structuralized notions that equate GDP growth with social progress and sincerely aim to conceive of alternatives.
By Arthur Romano, Waging Nonviolence
King’s recognition of profound interconnectivity demanded that human security be grounded in the quality of our relationships, the systems we have in place to support people when things get hard, and by creating international frameworks to guarantee equity and human dignity over profit.
By Marissa Mommaerts, Transition US
Transition leaders from across the country came together to explore how Transition US could deepen, shift, or adapt our analysis of the crises we face: away from an emphasis on peak oil & resource depletion, and toward a more nuanced understanding of the extractive economy and its connection to both social justice and ecological crises.