Policy – Radical Ecological Democracy

Engaging with the Plutocene

May 14, 2018April 13, 2022 Capitalism, Development, Ecology, Environment, New Economy, New Politics, Policy, Sustainability

The neoliberal dispensation governing the world is pushing it towards an ecological catastrophe while ensuring the economic and political supremacy of an entrenched elite class. Using an income-based class perspective, Marko Ulvilla and Kristoffer Wilen discuss the ways in which we could create ecologically sustainable and socially equitable post-growth societies.

Analysis

Is There A Way Out?

September 27, 2017December 21, 2017 Capitalism, Climate Change, Colonialism, Development, Environment, Innovation, Nature, New Economy, Policy, Politics, Power Dynamic, Society

There’s much that makes us feel despondent in the contemporary world – climate change, economic inequality, social discord and a sense of intense personal ennui. How do we move towards solutions which restore sanity to our existence and connect us to others in our communities and to nature? Ashish Kothari and Pallav Das explain the idea, conviction and commitment behind an attempt at documenting some of the serious efforts being made in that direction.

Analysis

A Path To Freedom

September 27, 2017April 13, 2022 Community, Cooperatives, Democracy, Development, Innovation, New Economy, Policy, Revolutionary Struggle, Social, Sustainability

Gustavo Esteva narrates his encounter with “development” and how that has shaped his understanding of the need for crafting new alternatives to free market fundamentalism.

Agenda Conversations

RED Conversations Series

September 27, 2017April 13, 2022 Alternatives, Community, Consumerism, Degrowth, Democracy, Development, Innovation, New Economy, New Politics, Policy, Power Dynamic, Society

A group of leading thinkers, activists and researchers discusses the roots of contemporary environmental issues and related socio-political challenges facing the world and the possible way out of it.

Agenda

Creating New Political and Ecological Consciousness Through Direct Democracy

September 27, 2017April 13, 2022 Community, Democracy, Environment, Global, Innovation, New Politics, Policy, Society

Would new experiments in Direct Democracy hasten the much needed evolution of representative forms of democracy in the near future? Chistos Zografos gives us an insight into the new developments.

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