Arif Yusop
As (inter)beings immersed in colonial modernity, we tend to forget who we truly are as a collective ‘we’. Exploring design vis-à-vis sustainability transition, Arif Yusop reflects on the manufactured global ‘we’ that has captured sustainability discourse and unearths …
Madhuresh Kumar
How can we imagine freedom outside the institutions that taught us what freedom is supposed to look like? Madhuresh Kumar reflects on his participation at a convening in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which brought together grassroots organizers to …
Simon Mitambo
In the Tharaka community of Kenya, the living world has always been understood as a council that includes more than human voices. Simon Mitambo shares how earthy governance in Tharaka has always been larger than the human community; …
Ashish Kothari
From anger and resistance to imagining alternative futures.
Originally published by Meer on 13 June 2026.
The last few years have seen a spate of youth movements – led especially by the generation called Gen Z – …
Abhayraj Naik
Amidst the lush rice fields of Andhra Pradesh, Abhayraj Naik reflects in an experiential essay on the interconnectedness between humans and the land, slipping through the cracks of urbanization, climate change, and agrarian crises. Naik observes a resilient …
Vipul Shaha
Reflections on witnessing alternative ways of living, of a different kind of relationship with the rest of nature, and organising life around ecological principles.
My recent journey through New Zealand (Aotearoa) and Australia began with an invitation to …
Alim M Bandara
The Tëduray, Lambangian and Non-Moro Indigenous Peoples of southern Philippines have been struggling to restore their customary self-governance system and strengthen guardianship of their ancestral territories. Alim Bandara writes about the Timuay Justice and Governance (TJG) system …
Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld
Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld trace a worldwide network of communities healing soil and reweaving relationships between people and land.
This brown, dirty stuff beneath our feet is in fact teeming with life and …
Halwest Karim
Originally published by Local Futures on March 31, 2026.
Across Kurdistan, the village has not been just a place of settlement; it has been a living ecological system, a web of deep interconnections among people, land, seeds, animals, …
Ashish Kothari
Originally published by Meer on 13 May 2026.
Grassroots movements from across the Global South gather in Indonesia to confront war, inequality, and ecological collapse through collective alternatives.
Hope. Esperanza. Harapan. These words were frequently invoked by …
Pooja Kishinani and Satakshi Gupta
An interview with visual artist Anuja Dasgupta, whose practice sits at the intersection of eco-art, ethnobotany and community. Using plant-based emulsions, cameraless photography, and repurposed wood, she creates art that refuses to represent the land, …
Abdul Semakula
The climate crisis is a listening crisis. We’ve lost the human capacity to hear what the web of life in our places is telling us. A community in Kampala is rebuilding, in an urban context, the cultural infrastructure …