Fausto Corvino
In the lead-up to COP29, Fausto Corvino emphasized the need for a paradigm shift within the international climate negotiations to ensure that the global rich bear a greater responsibility for climate finance. In this follow-up article, he …
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 …
Fausto Corvino
The upcoming COP29, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024, will be crucial for climate finance. Governments will have to conclude negotiations on the so-called New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on international climate …
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 …
Dipak Gyawali
Dipak Gyawali shares his reflections from the first in-person gathering of the South Asia Bioregionalism Working Group in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. For bioregionalism to succeed in making any headway in South Asia, education must be de-Macaulay-ized to give …
Jorge Krekeler
The Almanac of the Future documents paradigmatic transformations – called ‘motivational experiences’ – emerging in Latin America that demonstrate alternatives to the current extractive model of ‘development’. Jorge Krekeler reflects on the origins and purpose of the Almanac …
Quincy Saul
In this article, Quincy Saul shares snippets of his experiences at the World Social Forum in Kathmandu, Nepal. He highlights the moments and movements – on democracy, food justice, and protecting river ecosystems – that have inspired him. …
Quincy Saul
A.T. Ariyaratne, founder of the Sarvodaya Movement in Sri Lanka, passed away on 16th April 2024. Quincy Saul offers a tribute to the legendary figure, sharing key lessons we can learn from his life’s work as movements around …
Carlos Tornel
“In times of civilizational collapse, the preservation of dignity can only come from below.”*
In conversations ranging from coffee shops to university classrooms, the language and notion of “civilizational collapse” is becoming increasingly common. The disaffection …
Ecocene? Yet another new word to describe the ‘Earth era’ in which humanity currently exists? Is it necessary and desirable, and if so, why? What was/is wrong with Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or Chthulucene (apart from having no idea how to pronounce …
Clem McCartney
Seven weeks have passed in the current heightened phase of the conflict in Israel/Palestine – seven, often seen as a special number. The level of death and destruction that has occurred during this time might have given those …
Salimah Valiani
In the mid-1970s, at the height of the Cold War, and following the victory of the Vietnamese people over US world hegemony, The Green Book was published in Africa. Muammar al-Qadaffi’s Green Book offered what he termed “the …