Dario Casalini
The fast fashion industry is a significant contributor to the accelerating climate, nature, and pollution crises. Dario Casalini, founder of the Slow Fiber network, offers an alternative to the unsustainable economic model that has proliferated ecologically destructive practices …
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 …
John Kurien, D. Nandakumar and Nalini Nayak
While Western perspectives often focus on the “what” and “how” of the coast and ocean, Eastern perspectives delve into the “why”— the deeper meanings and spiritual significance beyond the observable. In this article, …
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 …
Alessandra Monaco
What if we see beauty as a form of art and fashion as a tool to cultivate creativity and self-expression? In this new article, Alessandra Monaco explores alternatives to commodified notions of beauty. She interviews Giulia Paganelli, anthropologist …
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. …
Alessandra Monaco
The motivation for writing this series
About seventeen years ago I entered the world of fashion, more by chance than with any serious intent. In fact, I had been a student of the humanities with a keen interest …
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 …
Christine Dann
What is “ecosophy’? In his Introduction to Ecosophies of Freedom, Miland Wani gives a good overview of the derivation of the word (a contraction of ecological philosophy, with the emphasis on ‘eco’ – home or household, and …
Caroline Shenaz Hossein and Natalie Holmes
Susu is a centuries-old financial system in Ghana. A type of rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA), it’s one of a number of informal, collective financial institutions practiced across West Africa. For their study, …
Christine Dann
“Nous sommes des habitant·es en lutte attachés à leur territoire.”
Les Soulèvements de la Terre [2023] *
“We are inhabitants in struggle attached to their territory.”
“One common factor is the territorialization of the movements – that is, …
Neema Pathak Broome and Akshay Chettri
With looming ecological calamities and the failure of the current systems and measures to conserve biodiversity, the need for alternative transformative pathways is being felt acutely and being discussed widely – alternatives to address …