Uygar Özesmi
The contemporary world economy is based on large-scale production, competition, growth, consumption and profit maximization, increasingly the cause of rampant economic inequality all over the world, and extreme disharmony with nature. To reach its objective of selling the …
Jen Gobby
Along the shores of Blue River in unceded Secwepemc territory in so-called British Columbia(BC) , Canada, there is a group of Indigenous folks building and living in tiny houses, solarized, built to be mobile, and adorned with vibrant …
Clem McCartney
When the New Zealand Labour Party won the recent general election, the party leader and Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, said they must seize the opportunity “to build an economy that works for everyone.” As a slogan it compares …
Jen Gobby
We know how much is riding on this moment in history. We know that social and ecological systems hang in precarious balance, teetering on the edge of ecological collapse and climate catastrophe, while an emboldening far right threatens …
Clem McCartney
A butterfly flaps its wings in the African jungle, and a few weeks later a hurricane results in North America. That was the image that chaos theory used in order to show that small changes can have big …
Robert Fletcher, Kate Massarella, Ashish Kothari, Pallav Das, Anwesha Dutta, Bram Büscher
The prospects for Earth’s biological diversity look increasingly bleak. The urgency of global efforts to preserve biodiversity long predates the COVID-19 crisis, but the pandemic has added …
Helena Paul
Covid19 is confronting us with our deepest contradictions: the vast majority of the more prosperous among us depend on an economic system based on the ever-greater extraction, exploitation and over-consumption of what the planet provides. At the same …
Pablo Domínguez, Maja Kostić-Mandić and Milan Sekulović
There is a crisis brewing in the Sinjajevina-Durmitor massif mountain range in Montenegro where a substantial part of this traditional pastoral territory is being converted into a military training ground. The mountain range …
Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)
According to our calendar, the Karen People have lived in our forest home for 2,758 years. Our lands and waters play many important roles in everyday life and in our future prosperity. They …
Christophe Aguiton, Geneviève Azam, Maxime Combes, Thomas Coutrot and Jean Gadrey
In less than two months, the coronavirus pandemic has already been reshuffling the cards of economic globalization. The continuous lengthening of supply chains and the international division of labour …
Mariana Gomez Soto and Benjamin Hitchcock Auciello
The history of large-scale mining in Colombia is inseparable from the violence of European colonialism in the Americas. Prior to the Spanish invasion nearly five centuries ago, gold was extracted on a relatively …
Nnimmo Bassey
We have entered the era of Nature-based colonialism. Call it the Green Colonialism. The gloves are coming off. The climate crisis in the world is being approached as a mere unfolding change, as business opportunities and not …