Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar shares his experience of visiting Delhi’s Lodhi neighbourhood where the streets are transformed into colourful canvases. He highlights the importance of art as a way of infusing creativity and celebration into everyday, re-enchanting the world, and …
Madhuresh Kumar
In the light of the unfolding climate catastrophes and the unfolding crisis the language of energy transition has gained unprecedented traction. From the corridors of the Parliament down to the provincial governments, the shift from fossil fuels to …
GTA facilitation team
Last month, the Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA) completed six years of weaving and connecting networks of Alternatives around the globe. In this message to the constituents of the process, the GTA facilitation team celebrates and reflects …
Marianne Dhenin
Originally published by Yes! Magazine on 21 May 2025.
To fill the growing vacuum of history education in the U.S., racial justice organizers are leaning into community-based education programs to continue teaching a more diverse and comprehensive picture …
Asia Leofreddi
Originally published by The Loop on 14 May 2025.
A student-led movement is challenging what they claim is the ‘capture’ of the state by Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić. Asia Leofreddi reflects on how this uprising, sparked by tragedy …
This is an excerpt from the fifth episode of the More Than Human: Creative Expression series hosted by the Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA) and Kalpavriksh. In this episode, filmmaker Janet Solomon is in conversation with Ashish Kothari about …
Michel Pimbert
At its heart, food sovereignty is a people-led response to the existential threats and multiple crises facing agri-food systems. Led by peasant farmers and agricultural workers, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, and fishers, as well as citizens, activist scholars, women, …
How has modernity shaped the way we perceive, inhabit, and relate to our physical bodies? What does it mean to “reclaim whole body sovereignty”? How do we free not only our minds, but also the body from the shackles of …
Necibe Qeredaxi
Necibe Qeredaxi shares the story of Sakine Cansiz (also known as ‘Sara’), co-founder of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), who dedicated her life to the Kurdish freedom movement. From her early inspirations to her efforts at organising women …
Emilia Lewartowska and Lone Riisgaard
Vikalp Sangam (or Alternatives Confluence) is a national platform and process established in India in 2014 to document, network, and create collaborations amongst grassroots movements and groups constructing alternative frameworks for justice, equity, and ecological …
Miriam Lang
With COP16 underway in Cali, Colombia, Miriam Lang highlights the risk of focusing on biodiversity credits as a solution to preserving biodiversity may preclude discussions of a transformative politics outside of a market-based logic. What is needed is …
Chaitali Chaudhari and Sarah Hawkins
The much-loved and revered Gaian Scientist and co-founder of Schumacher College, Dr. Stephan Harding, passed away on September 2nd, 2024. In this moving tribute, Chaitali Chaudhari shares some tender moments and lessons from her time …