Mitja Stefancic
In the recently held elections in Italy, a hard-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni of the Brothers Of Italy party gained a convincing majority in the country’s Parliament. This takeover of power by a group described by many …
Aaditeshwar Seth
The world faces large and intersecting challenges of environmental collapse, inequality, exploitation, health, and poverty, among others. Technologies, especially those emerging from information and communication tools (ICTs) are often projected as ideal solutions to address these challenges – …
REDWeb does not normally feature poetry or prose, or for that matter any other form of what is generally referred to as “creative expression”. The website sticks to the straight and narrow – discussions on the worldwide search for “alternatives”, …
Christian Stalberg
Today, there exists what in my estimation is an unprecedented moment for altering the course of human history. The hopes and dreams for a more equitable, peaceful, just and livable world now have an opening for their realization …
Arturo Escobar
Transitions and transition design have been an active focus of research and practice for me since Designs for the Pluriverse (2018, but published in Spanish in 2016), particularly through transition- related projects in Colombia and, more recently, in …
Matias Pérez Ojeda del Arco
As the consequences of climate change continue to upend people’s lives all over the world, the feeble actions to address and mitigate it continue to allow emissions in the global north, or centre, and offset …
Adam Cogan
In the early days of the pandemic, Albert Camus’ classic The Plague saw surging sales, followed by a spate of articles presenting his ideas and philosophy in light of the new situation, and their continuing relevance to this …
Abdelfattah Abusrour
Our organization, Alrowwad, works with the Palestinian youth, and that has been our enduring mandate since we founded it in 1998. People often ask me, why, given the severity of the politics surrounding the Palestinian struggle, would …
Dorine E. van Norren
Initiatives of the Global South have much to contribute to the discussions on development, sustainability and climate change, especially when it comes to changing our behavior. The world is constantly making new agreements on how to …
Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick
As we work together to re-discover and build new empowering political systems of collective decision making, and life-giving economic systems that can meet our real needs, how do we ensure that they stay true to …
Helena Paul
A profound contradiction between our dominant economic system and Earth’s life support structure continue to endanger human existence, as neoliberalism, the economic system we live by, demands endless growth and consumption of resources in order to continue to …
Clem McCartney
I suppose that there are not many followers of Radical Ecological Democracy (RED) who do not get a certain satisfaction from deconstructing our current social systems and demonstrating that they are not fit for purpose in responding to …