Monthly links April readingsOn the crisis of work, a post-car future, and why climate fiction won’t save us May 11, 2023May 12, 2023
Turkey On planning and disaster: Notes from an earthquakeHow disasters are baked into Turkey’s developmental model—and what kind of opposition could emerge out of the ruins of the earthquake April 6, 2023April 11, 2023
Monthly links February & March readingsOn the Turkey–Syria earthquake, climate frauds, and bicycles April 2, 2023April 6, 2023
Monthly links January readingsOn Cop City, Lützerath, and biodiversity & colonialist conservation February 5, 2023February 5, 2023
Monthly links November readingsOn AI, the COP, and why having more fun is good for the planet December 12, 2022December 12, 2022
Essay Las promesas vacías de las Soluciones Basadas en la Naturaleza: los casos de Shell y BPLas SbN encubren la falta de interés de las grandes corporaciones y gobiernos por lograr emisiones cero reales November 5, 2022November 9, 2022
Monthly links October readingsOn activist tactics, green transitions, and the deep history of work November 4, 2022November 6, 2022
Resources for a better future Green growthCapitalist and neocolonial fantasies are hampering a just transition October 31, 2022November 5, 2022
Monthly links September readingsOn Pakistan’s superfloods, sustainable living in Uruguay, and the importance of third places October 14, 2022October 15, 2022
Book review Do the impossible! Plan utopia!A review of Half-Earth Socialism September 20, 2022September 20, 2022
Monthly links August readingsOn the (un)sustainability of fashion, solidarity cinema, and a Marxism without guarantees September 11, 2022September 19, 2022
Book review 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 August 11, 2022November 5, 2022
Monthly links Summer readingsOn our burning planet, the impact of private jets, socialist solidarity, and the growth of degrowth August 1, 2022August 7, 2022
Resources for a better future TechnologyTechnology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us March 25, 2022May 9, 2022
Essay A jaywalking manifesto“Every step that is ‘jay’ is defiance in the face of the automobile machine.” February 6, 2022February 6, 2022
Monthly links January readingsOn animal rights, green gaslighting, and climate reparations February 5, 2022February 5, 2022
Monthly links December readingsOn remembering bell hooks, ‘nature-based’ colonialism, and labor disruptions January 7, 2022January 7, 2022
Book review Subverting imperial greenwashingThinking with and beyond “A People’s Green New Deal” for anti-imperialist organizing December 30, 2021December 31, 2021
Book review Blueprints for impossible futures“A People’s Green New Deal” demands a different kind of impossible December 22, 2021December 30, 2021
Essay Faith in a frail worldA journey through British Columbia this November showed how fragile the economy really is December 17, 2021December 17, 2021
Reflections Making sense of our multispecies world: Body-Forest as communityThe 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? December 13, 2021December 6, 2021
Essay Chester is chokingIn 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 December 8, 2021December 13, 2021
Essay An Italian city struggles against a century of pollution and political negligenceEnvironmental 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 December 7, 2021December 20, 2021
Monthly links November readingsOn COP26, Indigenous futures, technological colonialism and liberatory technologies December 6, 2021December 6, 2021
Monthly links September & October readingsOn hidden histories, climate communication, land struggles, and the problems with veganism November 6, 2021November 8, 2021
Essay Radically rethinking urban planning in (and from) the Global SouthAt 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 October 6, 2021October 8, 2021
Monthly links July readingsOn a summer of climate disasters, air conditioning, and the global costs of green technology August 4, 2021August 5, 2021
Monthly links June readingsOn the Gates Foundation’s influence over the global food system, species justice, and the connection between agrarian reform and queer rights July 10, 2021July 11, 2021
Report-back Why the National Páramo Day in Ecuador mattersThe páramo is a wetland ecosystem found only in the Andes, but its future well-being has global implications June 23, 2021June 23, 2021
Resources for a better future DiscountingDescriptive discount rates both reflect and sustain a highly unequal and myopic world June 14, 2021June 15, 2021
Monthly links May readingsOn justice for Palestine, mining’s scars on our planet, and the power of the imagination June 5, 2021June 9, 2021
Resources for a better future GDPWhat is GDP, and why should we learn to live without it? May 10, 2021May 10, 2021
Analysis Brave New NormalCultivating cooperative, self-sustaining communities can undermine destructive economic systems and offer meaningful responses to social-ecological crises in the wake of the pandemic May 7, 2021May 7, 2021
Monthly links April readingsOn global environmental justice struggles, ‘third places’, and the problem with nature documentaries May 3, 2021May 3, 2021
Climate change Is green growth happening?The answer is no. Decoupling will not be enough to ensure ecological sustainability without a downscaling of production and consumption. April 29, 2021April 29, 2021
Resources for a better future The commonsThe commons opposes and transcends the logic of capitalism by building relations based on cooperation, solidarity, mutualism and direct democracy April 12, 2021April 16, 2021
Book review Review of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador by Thea RiofrancosResource Radicals marks an important contribution to burgeoning literature on resource politics and democratic practice April 11, 2021April 16, 2021
Photo essay Well diggers tackling water woes in a megacity: The case of Bangalore, IndiaThe 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. April 8, 2021April 12, 2021
Monthly links March readingsOn ecological imaginaries, post-pandemic futures, and the long shadow of colonial science April 7, 2021April 16, 2021
Resources for a better future Slow violenceThis 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 March 29, 2021April 16, 2021
Resources for a better future PermacultureA design system that offers a radical reimagination of the possible March 15, 2021April 16, 2021
Monthly links January & February readingsOn extractive tourism, global vaccine justice, and the power of mutual aid March 6, 2021March 10, 2021
Book review 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 February 23, 2021April 24, 2021
Resources for a better future RewildingA growing movement repurposes the term rewilding to be a political and cultural project that is more than merely conservation biology February 8, 2021March 16, 2021
Colonialism Blue neocolonialismThe Nature Conservancy is promoting “Blue bonds”—a market-based solution to fund conservation—as a new wave of neocolonialism in the Seychelles January 25, 2021April 15, 2021
Coronavirus Who owns the city? Cars and COVID-19Car-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. December 15, 2020December 15, 2020
Monthly links November readingsOn the false “job versus environment” dilemma, the industrial exploitation of pigs, and the #Landback movement December 9, 2020December 9, 2020
Resources for a better future WorkWork is drudgery for a lot of people, but it can be different and meaningful, if radically reorganised December 8, 2020March 16, 2021
Resources for a better future Political ecologyLike 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 November 24, 2020March 16, 2021
Resources for a better future DevelopmentFor development to truly deliver on its promise—the betterment of life for all—it must engage a multidimensional understanding of poverty November 9, 2020March 16, 2021
Monthly links September & October readingsOn the politics of mental health, conservation, and the ecology of fire November 5, 2020November 6, 2020
Futures Make life, not work: democratizing, decommodifying and remediating existenceEmancipation from labour requires us to democratize and decommodify the economy as a whole October 23, 2020October 23, 2020
Resources for a better future Renewable energyTo provide the conditions for a sustainable technology, we must begin by establishing a sustainable economy October 19, 2020March 16, 2021
Analysis Structural violence and the automobileThe intertwined legacy of fascism and the motorcar October 1, 2020October 1, 2020
Resources for a better future DegrowthDegrowth is not a passive critique but an active project of hope September 28, 2020March 16, 2021
Monthly links August readingsOn remembering David Graeber, the service sector, and climate reparations September 8, 2020September 10, 2020
Resources for a better future Unequal exchangeGlobal trade conceals ecological and human exploitation in peripheries and maintains an unjust world order September 7, 2020March 17, 2021
Resources for a better future OffsettingA policy tool that allows us to imagine a world in which everything is replaceable, and where there are no limits August 17, 2020March 17, 2021
Resources for a better future ExtractivismOne of the most expansionist global enterprises—squashing any other ways of living with the land August 3, 2020March 17, 2021
Resources for a better future ExtractivismoUno de los proyectos globales más expansionistas, que aplasta cualquier otra forma de vivir con la tierra August 3, 2020March 17, 2021
Monthly links July readingsOn decolonial ecologies, struggles for land around the world, and radical syllabi for the new school year August 2, 2020August 2, 2020
Resources for a better future PopulationNeo-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 July 20, 2020March 17, 2021
Photo essay Littoral Drift: Coastal currents and industrial echoes mingle to shape the landscape in Southern FrancePhotographer and filmmaker Neal Rockwell explores new natures on the Landes coast July 15, 2020September 29, 2023
Book review The Revolution Will Not Be “Green”A truly equitable and sustainable conservation movement must abandon both green capitalism and the idea of pristine nature July 7, 2020July 7, 2020
Monthly links June readingsOn our current political moment, Black Lives Matter, and food politics July 3, 2020July 3, 2020
Resources for a better future DecouplingGiven the historical correlation of market activity and environmental pressures, relying on decoupling alone to solve environmental problems is an extremely risky and irresponsible bet June 29, 2020March 17, 2021
Resources for a better future Jevons paradoxEfficiency gains contribute to increasing production and consumption which increases the extraction of resources and the generation of wastes June 16, 2020March 17, 2021
Book review NOlympics, everywhereIn LA, a coalition to stop the Olympics pairs localism with internationalism June 13, 2020June 14, 2020
Monthly links May readingsOn anti-racism, the end of policing, and reimagining a world where justice is possible June 5, 2020June 6, 2020
Resources for a better future Human natureIn the first entry of our new glossary, Eleanor Finley argues that there is no human nature, only human potential June 1, 2020March 17, 2021
Essay Planet of the dehumanizedEnvironmentalism that does not center structural inequality is a dangerous nod to both eco-fascists and eco-modernists alike May 7, 2020May 8, 2020
Monthly links March & April readingsResources on the global COVID-19 pandemic May 6, 2020June 2, 2020
Essay When viruses shatter limitsViruses are invisibly small, cause monumental pandemics, and force us to rethink our taxonomies April 13, 2020April 20, 2020
Essay To organize in times of crisis, we need to connect the dots of global resistance against ImperialismMoving beyond a politics of confusion towards Internationalism April 11, 2020April 18, 2020
Book review Now is the time to end the climate emergencyReading “The Green New Deal and beyond” in the middle of a global crisis April 9, 2020April 9, 2020
Covid-19 This pandemic IS ecological breakdown: different tempo, same songComparisons between the toll of COVID-19 and climate change are not helpful because they view each as two separate “things” April 2, 2020April 2, 2020
Covid-19 Exploring transformative change on the brinkIn moments such as these, the landscape of possibility shifts. How can activists engage on the ground? March 31, 2020March 31, 2020
Covid-19 Pandemic strikeRob Wallace says we need new tactics to show that people’s lives matter more than profit March 16, 2020March 16, 2020
Covid-19 Where did coronavirus come from, and where will it take us?An interview with Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Make Big Flu March 12, 2020March 16, 2020
Not afraid of the ruins The only thing to last foreverAn endless repetition had taken hold of the world March 9, 2020March 9, 2020
Monthly links February readingsOn solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en, new perspectives on coronavirus, and free public transportation March 4, 2020March 4, 2020
Not afraid of the ruins Remembering“I remember rent being low. But water was expensive. A lot of electricity went into the desalination plants.” February 24, 2020February 24, 2020
GND series A post-growth Green New DealTo decarbonize we must degrow, decommodify, and democratize the economy February 17, 2020February 17, 2020
Not afraid of the ruins A Wood Wide Web Story: an Apple Tree in Daegu“The surrogate mothers could only be married to the earth.” February 11, 2020February 13, 2020
GND series Who owns the Green New Deal?Making sense of remote ownership problems and place-based governance February 4, 2020February 4, 2020
Monthly links January readingsOn the overpopulation myth, green colonialism (and decolonialism), and the Wuhan coronavirus February 3, 2020March 6, 2020
GND series Energy and the Green New DealThe complex challenge of powering societies January 28, 2020January 28, 2020
Essay Swedish colonialist neutralityA tradition of double standards from historical colonialism to current environmental injustice January 21, 2020January 23, 2020
GND series Public money for environmental justiceWe’ll never fund a transformative Green New Deal with money designed for capitalism January 7, 2020January 7, 2020
Not afraid of the ruins 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.” January 6, 2020January 6, 2020
GND series Show me the moneyHow will we pay for the Green New Deal? December 16, 2019December 18, 2019
GND series A just food transitionWhy the Green New Deal should give farmers a Basic Income December 11, 2019December 11, 2019
Not afraid of the ruins 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.” December 9, 2019December 9, 2019
Monthly links November readingsOn the wave of global protests, lessons from the 1999 Seattle shutdown, and nuclear energy December 6, 2019March 6, 2020
Not afraid of the ruins The technical assistantIt had been a long time since human hands had touched grain bins November 25, 2019November 26, 2019
GND series Trade governance will make or break the Green New DealHow the GND could, should, must redefine “protectionism” and transform international trade November 13, 2019November 13, 2019
GND series Rethinking education for the Green New DealGovernance for an eco-centered curriculum—or not? November 6, 2019November 6, 2019