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On planning and disaster: Notes from an earthquake
How disasters are baked into Turkey’s developmental model—and what kind of opposition could emerge out of the ruins of the earthquake
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February & March readings
On the Turkey–Syria earthquake, climate frauds, and bicycles
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Stories of permafrost
A call to look beyond permanence
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Lützerath bleibt!
At the edge of the 1.5°C frontier
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January readings
On Cop City, Lützerath, and biodiversity & colonialist conservation
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November readings
On AI, the COP, and why having more fun is good for the planet
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Las promesas vacías de las Soluciones Basadas en la Naturaleza: los casos de Shell y BP
Las SbN encubren la falta de interés de las grandes corporaciones y gobiernos por lograr emisiones cero reales
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October readings
On activist tactics, green transitions, and the deep history of work
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Green growth
Capitalist and neocolonial fantasies are hampering a just transition
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September readings
On Pakistan’s superfloods, sustainable living in Uruguay, and the importance of third places
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Do the impossible! Plan utopia!
A review of Half-Earth Socialism
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August readings
On the (un)sustainability of fashion, solidarity cinema, and a Marxism without guarantees
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Class struggle or degrowth?
Without class struggle the emancipatory potential of degrowth will fail to be realized. A revolutionary pedagogy can help to unify them
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Summer readings
On our burning planet, the impact of private jets, socialist solidarity, and the growth of degrowth
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Technology
Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us
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A jaywalking manifesto
“Every step that is ‘jay’ is defiance in the face of the automobile machine.”
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January readings
On animal rights, green gaslighting, and climate reparations
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December readings
On remembering bell hooks, ‘nature-based’ colonialism, and labor disruptions
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Subverting imperial greenwashing
Thinking with and beyond “A People’s Green New Deal” for anti-imperialist organizing
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Blueprints for impossible futures
“A People’s Green New Deal” demands a different kind of impossible
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Faith in a frail world
A journey through British Columbia this November showed how fragile the economy really is
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Making sense of our multispecies world: Body-Forest as community
The border between the human and the non-human is far less clear than we once believed. How might this impact the way we relate to the Earth?
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Chester is choking
In the face of ongoing toxic pollution in Chester, Pennsylvania, Veronica Gomes and Kimberley Thomas untangle divergent explanations for the disproportionate harm inflicted on African Americans
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An Italian city struggles against a century of pollution and political negligence
Environmental injustice and political failure take an unbearable toll on a local community. Yet, someone is now trying to make the city rise from its ashes
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November readings
On COP26, Indigenous futures, technological colonialism and liberatory technologies
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September & October readings
On hidden histories, climate communication, land struggles, and the problems with veganism
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Radically rethinking urban planning in (and from) the Global South
At a time when the spaces we inhabit determine our chances to survive a deadly virus, it is crucial to challenge canonical urban planning and its deep failures in the Global South
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July readings
On a summer of climate disasters, air conditioning, and the global costs of green technology
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June readings
On the Gates Foundation’s influence over the global food system, species justice, and the connection between agrarian reform and queer rights
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Why the National Páramo Day in Ecuador matters
The páramo is a wetland ecosystem found only in the Andes, but its future well-being has global implications
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Discounting
Descriptive discount rates both reflect and sustain a highly unequal and myopic world
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May readings
On justice for Palestine, mining’s scars on our planet, and the power of the imagination
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GDP
What is GDP, and why should we learn to live without it?
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Brave New Normal
Cultivating cooperative, self-sustaining communities can undermine destructive economic systems and offer meaningful responses to social-ecological crises in the wake of the pandemic
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April readings
On global environmental justice struggles, ‘third places’, and the problem with nature documentaries
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Is green growth happening?
The answer is no. Decoupling will not be enough to ensure ecological sustainability without a downscaling of production and consumption.
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The commons
The commons opposes and transcends the logic of capitalism by building relations based on cooperation, solidarity, mutualism and direct democracy
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Review of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador by Thea Riofrancos
Resource Radicals marks an important contribution to burgeoning literature on resource politics and democratic practice
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Well diggers tackling water woes in a megacity: The case of Bangalore, India
The ever-fast growing metropolis Bangalore is running out of groundwater. Yet traditional water practices might be key to a sustainable use of the blue gold below us.
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March readings
On ecological imaginaries, post-pandemic futures, and the long shadow of colonial science
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Slow violence
This harm is slow, ill-defined, and often perceptible only in retrospect, when its perpetrators are long gone, if they were ever physically present at all
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Permaculture
A design system that offers a radical reimagination of the possible
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January & February readings
On extractive tourism, global vaccine justice, and the power of mutual aid
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A new book tells us what is really behind the ‘K-shaped recovery’
A review of The Asset Economy by Lisa Adkins, Martijn Konigs, and Melinda Cooper
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Rewilding
A growing movement repurposes the term rewilding to be a political and cultural project that is more than merely conservation biology
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Blue neocolonialism
The Nature Conservancy is promoting “Blue bonds”—a market-based solution to fund conservation—as a new wave of neocolonialism in the Seychelles
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Who owns the city? Cars and COVID-19
Car-centred urbanisation is tied to the growing threat of deadly epidemics. Solutions lie beyond technocratic policy, instead we must look to the soul of the city.
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November readings
On the false “job versus environment” dilemma, the industrial exploitation of pigs, and the #Landback movement
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Work
Work is drudgery for a lot of people, but it can be different and meaningful, if radically reorganised
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Political ecology
Like a toolbox to unpack and understand the complexity of the socio-ecological crises we live in, political ecology is dedicated to a more just and inclusive world
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Development
For development to truly deliver on its promise—the betterment of life for all—it must engage a multidimensional understanding of poverty
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September & October readings
On the politics of mental health, conservation, and the ecology of fire
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Make life, not work: democratizing, decommodifying and remediating existence
Emancipation from labour requires us to democratize and decommodify the economy as a whole
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Renewable energy
To provide the conditions for a sustainable technology, we must begin by establishing a sustainable economy
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Structural violence and the automobile
The intertwined legacy of fascism and the motorcar
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Degrowth
Degrowth is not a passive critique but an active project of hope
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August readings
On remembering David Graeber, the service sector, and climate reparations
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Unequal exchange
Global trade conceals ecological and human exploitation in peripheries and maintains an unjust world order
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Offsetting
A policy tool that allows us to imagine a world in which everything is replaceable, and where there are no limits
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Extractivism
One of the most expansionist global enterprises—squashing any other ways of living with the land
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Extractivismo
Uno de los proyectos globales más expansionistas, que aplasta cualquier otra forma de vivir con la tierra
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July readings
On decolonial ecologies, struggles for land around the world, and radical syllabi for the new school year
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Population
Neo-Malthusian promotion of family planning as the solution to hunger, conflict, and poverty has contributed to destructive population control approaches, that are targeted most often at poor, racialized women
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Littoral Drift: Coastal currents and industrial echoes mingle to shape the landscape in Southern France
Photographer and filmmaker Neal Rockwell explores new natures on the Landes coast
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The Revolution Will Not Be “Green”
A truly equitable and sustainable conservation movement must abandon both green capitalism and the idea of pristine nature
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June readings
On our current political moment, Black Lives Matter, and food politics
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Decoupling
Given the historical correlation of market activity and environmental pressures, relying on decoupling alone to solve environmental problems is an extremely risky and irresponsible bet
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Jevons paradox
Efficiency gains contribute to increasing production and consumption which increases the extraction of resources and the generation of wastes
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NOlympics, everywhere
In LA, a coalition to stop the Olympics pairs localism with internationalism
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May readings
On anti-racism, the end of policing, and reimagining a world where justice is possible
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Human nature
In the first entry of our new glossary, Eleanor Finley argues that there is no human nature, only human potential
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Crisis Collage
How do we move ahead now?
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Planet of the dehumanized
Environmentalism that does not center structural inequality is a dangerous nod to both eco-fascists and eco-modernists alike
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March & April readings
Resources on the global COVID-19 pandemic
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When viruses shatter limits
Viruses are invisibly small, cause monumental pandemics, and force us to rethink our taxonomies
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To organize in times of crisis, we need to connect the dots of global resistance against Imperialism
Moving beyond a politics of confusion towards Internationalism
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Now is the time to end the climate emergency
Reading “The Green New Deal and beyond” in the middle of a global crisis
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This pandemic IS ecological breakdown: different tempo, same song
Comparisons between the toll of COVID-19 and climate change are not helpful because they view each as two separate “things”
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Exploring transformative change on the brink
In moments such as these, the landscape of possibility shifts. How can activists engage on the ground?
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Pandemic strike
Rob Wallace says we need new tactics to show that people’s lives matter more than profit
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Where did coronavirus come from, and where will it take us?
An interview with Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Make Big Flu
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The only thing to last forever
An endless repetition had taken hold of the world
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February readings
On solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en, new perspectives on coronavirus, and free public transportation
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Remembering
“I remember rent being low. But water was expensive. A lot of electricity went into the desalination plants.”
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A post-growth Green New Deal
To decarbonize we must degrow, decommodify, and democratize the economy
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A Wood Wide Web Story: an Apple Tree in Daegu
“The surrogate mothers could only be married to the earth.”
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Who owns the Green New Deal?
Making sense of remote ownership problems and place-based governance
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January readings
On the overpopulation myth, green colonialism (and decolonialism), and the Wuhan coronavirus
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Energy and the Green New Deal
The complex challenge of powering societies
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Swedish colonialist neutrality
A tradition of double standards from historical colonialism to current environmental injustice
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Public money for environmental justice
We’ll never fund a transformative Green New Deal with money designed for capitalism
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Hayashi-san’s Green Headband
“In Tokyo, New York, Montreal, Rome, Paris, Beijing, Kinshasa, millions of people were wearing green headbands … this has made you a martyr and brought the environmental movement to a level never before reached.”
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Show me the money
How will we pay for the Green New Deal?
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A just food transition
Why the Green New Deal should give farmers a Basic Income
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Birth
“Maybe then we’ll regain the access to the river, the river that is now controlled by the insiders and their obsession with energy resources.”
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November readings
On the wave of global protests, lessons from the 1999 Seattle shutdown, and nuclear energy
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The technical assistant
It had been a long time since human hands had touched grain bins
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Trade governance will make or break the Green New Deal
How the GND could, should, must redefine “protectionism” and transform international trade
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