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Waste

“I’m looking through the symbol for all that’s disgusting”

How to live off the rich world’s trash

October 18, 2017December 11, 2017
Island nations

I’m not a climate refugee

The story of a climate change activist from Tuvalu

October 3, 2017December 7, 2017
Reflections

There is no wilderness in Kiruna

A summer festival in Sámi and Tornedalian territory

September 22, 2017September 13, 2019

Uneven Earth summer party

Celebrating a new anthology, a new section, and announcing a revamped website

August 7, 2017September 13, 2017
Conflict

Water and oil, death and life in Louisiana

How residents of the Bayou are fighting giants for the future of their land

July 10, 2017September 13, 2017
Not afraid of the ruins

Not afraid of the ruins

Call for science fiction and utopian imaginaries

June 21, 2017February 2, 2023
Futures

Planting the seeds of degrowth in times of crisis

Examples from Greece

May 24, 2017September 13, 2017
Gentrification

Kathputli colony’s fear of displacement

No room for non-commercial creative space in urban Delhi

April 25, 2017September 13, 2017
Essay

Is tourism a poverty trap?

The charming resources curse

April 23, 2017October 29, 2018
Interview

Cuba between loss and perseverance

Some musings on everyday anarchy, contradictions and the future of the revolution

April 18, 2017September 13, 2017
Essay

Why we’re not going to Mars

It’s a silly place

March 30, 2017September 13, 2017
Essay

Power and patriarchy

Reflections on social change from Bolivia

February 22, 2017September 24, 2019
Essay

No degrowth without climate justice

Changing structures, opposing hierarchies, and embracing the struggle as lessons for the degrowth community

February 7, 2017September 13, 2017
Indigenous

Are the Chipaya under threat of disappearing ?

On territory, tourism and the future

January 31, 2017September 13, 2017
Essay

Punch Nazis when the timing is right

Is it ok to punch a Nazi? Wrong question.

January 24, 2017September 13, 2017
Strategies

Why we need a socialist spirituality

To succeed against the rise of nationalism we need something that is as emotionally powerful

January 24, 2017September 13, 2017
Essay

Accelerationism… and degrowth?

The Left’s strange bedfellows

January 7, 2017September 13, 2017
Report-back

After Standing Rock, a new unity emerges

How a village of care fought the black snake, and what lies ahead

December 20, 2016September 13, 2017
Reflections

Climate change is the social reality now

And the complexity of telling its story is staggering

December 18, 2016September 13, 2017
Policy

Denmark’s political alternative

An insider’s report on a new party with a different vision

December 1, 2016September 13, 2017
Degrowth

What will spark a degrowth movement in the USA?

Thinking smaller in a country where everything is big

November 25, 2016September 13, 2017
Indigenous

Moving slowly and deliberately at Standing Rock

A report on life in the camp

November 16, 2016September 13, 2017
Commons

Opening a crack in history

Residents of a Barcelona neighbourhood make use of historical research in their fight to reclaim a cooperative

November 15, 2016September 13, 2017
Reflections

Regeneration and revival, beyond survival

Queer brown song, dance & mourning between Turtle Island and Luzon

November 12, 2016September 13, 2017
Indigenous

Decolonisation in Europe

Sámi musician Sofia Jannok points to life beyond colonialism

November 9, 2016September 13, 2019
Conflict

Talc, the widowmaker of Madarangajodi

A small mining town in India can’t pay the costs of economic growth

September 19, 2016September 13, 2017
Kurdistan

Sur: A neighbourhood of history, hope, and resistance

An interview with former mayor Abdullah Demirbas

July 23, 2016September 13, 2017
Conflict

Hydro power projects as a resource curse

An Indian boom in dams, spurred by economic development and financial speculation, is increasingly leading to social and environmental conflicts

July 21, 2016September 13, 2017
Essay

Het debat over het Antropoceen

Waarom raakt zo een nuttig concept gecompromitteerd?

June 10, 2016September 13, 2017
Waste

The garbage-loving environmentalist

Artist and storyteller Lise Melhorn-Boe connects gender, health, waste, and the environment

June 7, 2016September 13, 2017
Commons

In defense of common space

On the so-called riots in Barcelona following the eviction of the Banc Expropriat

June 6, 2016September 13, 2017
Narrative

Drifting through the coal mine

Playing around in Foss-y-fran, the largest open-cast coal mine in the UK

May 13, 2016September 13, 2017
Migrants

“We’re here, we’re dying in the borders”

An interview on the migrant struggle that remains unseen

April 26, 2016September 13, 2017
Waste

Plastic and the city

Narratives of plastic in everyday life in Dakar

April 10, 2016September 13, 2017
Photo essay

Legacy: abandoned mine impacts in Pennsylvania’s Appalachia

Pictures, struggles and futures

April 7, 2016September 13, 2017
Indigenous

Returning to Indigenous world governance

The potential of community land trusts

March 19, 2016September 13, 2017
Report-back

“Docs Not Cops”

Migrant solidarity at the heart of healthcare fightback

March 17, 2016September 13, 2017
Interview

What’s really threatened by the mining dam break in Brazil?

Contextualizing the Samarco mining disaster and its aftermath

March 3, 2016September 13, 2017
Degrowth

The growthocene

Let’s be clear about the kinds of growth that need challenging

March 3, 2016September 13, 2017
Essay

Power = power

We can debate endlessly about which type of renewable energy is better, but in the end, what matters is who has their hand on the thermostat, and who does not

February 10, 2016September 13, 2017
Essay

To change the heart and soul

How world elites have sought to contain the global climate justice movement

January 19, 2016September 13, 2017

Announcing the Uneven Earth writing grant

January 12, 2016November 10, 2016
Degrowth

Let’s define Degrowth before we dismiss it

The reluctance of critics to define growth makes for poor debate

December 21, 2015September 25, 2020
Essay

The problem with REDD+

Neo-colonial expansion in the guise of addressing climate change

December 17, 2015September 13, 2017
Interview

How neo-liberalism used the “limits to growth”

An interview with Sara Holiday Nelson

December 15, 2015September 13, 2017
Degrowth

Cinco argumentos a favor del decrecimiento

December 7, 2015September 13, 2017
Policy

Going for Zero

The current approach to COP21 is not realist or moderate. If we consider the real facts of climate change, moderation means fighting the fossil fuel economy on every level, everywhere, now.

November 29, 2015September 13, 2017
Conflict

“Where you least expect it”

Living with the aluminum and kaolin industry in the Brazilian Amazon

October 9, 2015September 13, 2017
Indigenous

Decolonizing nature, the academy, and Europe

An interview with Métis writer Zoe Todd

September 21, 2015March 21, 2019
Kurdistan

Social ecology, Kurdistan, and the origins of freedom

Many Westerners are baffled by the determination of Kurdish fighters. But theirs is a struggle that goes beyond the ISIS threat, all the way back to the beginning of civilization.

August 3, 2015September 13, 2017
Policy

Basic income is not a panacea

Many praise it as a radical solution to poverty. By itself, it will be no such thing.

July 13, 2015September 13, 2017
Strategies

“Trading one superstition for another”

Should we really abandon consensus-based decision-making?

July 10, 2015September 13, 2017
Waste

An ethics of surplus and the right to waste?

On discards and degrowth

July 2, 2015September 13, 2017
Report-back

Is Europe staring at a second Renaissance?

Across Europe, as economies find themselves tottering in the face of deepening financial and social crises, various alternative initiatives are gaining ground, providing hope for a different future.

June 30, 2015September 13, 2017
Essay

The Anthropocene debate

Why is such a useful concept starting to fall apart?

June 16, 2015September 13, 2017
Waste

Should we force supermarkets to send food waste to charities?

A criticism of France’s new law, and some alternative solutions

May 25, 2015September 13, 2017
Gentrification

Broadway, New Haven

Remade, rebuilt, re-ruined

May 25, 2015September 13, 2017
Gentrification

“My neighbors…”

On gentrification, arson, and murder in San Francisco’s Mission

May 21, 2015September 13, 2017
Policy

We’ve been here before, haven’t we?

Recovering the early economic programmes of Die Grünen

May 5, 2015September 13, 2017
Futures

Degrowth in Detroit?

How Detroit’s elite are envisioning new futures beyond austerity

April 22, 2015September 13, 2017
Degrowth

Putting a pig on the tracks

Five arguments in favor of Degrowth

March 6, 2015September 13, 2017
Colonialism

The binge economy past and present

An interview with Richard Wilk

March 3, 2015September 13, 2017
Essay

The GMO Conversation

Moving beyond the pro/anti science debate

February 19, 2015September 13, 2017
Essay

Mustachianism, environmentalism, me, and us

On individualism and change

November 13, 2014September 13, 2017
Fossil fuels

Could Energy East become just?

Part 2 of 2

October 31, 2014September 13, 2017
Fossil fuels

Is Energy East just?

Part 1 of 2

October 14, 2014September 13, 2017
Policy

Reversing the commodification trap

The case for an international ecocide law

September 13, 2014September 13, 2017
Strategies

Does The Climate Movement Have A Leader?

A critique of 350.org & Bill McKibben

September 13, 2014September 13, 2017
Gentrification

Just what is gentrification anyway?

The story of development and the destruction of livelihood in Hanoi

September 5, 2014September 13, 2017
Essay

Country mouse, city mouse

On extractivism and literature

May 5, 2014September 13, 2017

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