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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, 2021February 23, 2021
Resources for a better future

Rewilding

A growing movement repurposes the term rewilding to be a political and cultural project that is more than merely conservation biology

February 8, 2021February 9, 2021
Colonialism

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

January 25, 2021March 2, 2021
Coronavirus

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.

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020
Monthly links

November readings

On 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

Work

Work is drudgery for a lot of people, but it can be different and meaningful, if radically reorganised

December 8, 2020February 1, 2021
Resources for a better future

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

November 24, 2020December 8, 2020
Resources for a better future

Development

For development to truly deliver on its promise—the betterment of life for all—it must engage a multidimensional understanding of poverty

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020
Monthly links

September & October readings

On 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 existence

Emancipation from labour requires us to democratize and decommodify the economy as a whole

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020
Resources for a better future

Renewable energy

To provide the conditions for a sustainable technology, we must begin by establishing a sustainable economy

October 19, 2020November 7, 2020
Analysis

Structural violence and the automobile

The intertwined legacy of fascism and the motorcar

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020
Resources for a better future

Degrowth

Degrowth is not a passive critique but an active project of hope

September 28, 2020October 1, 2020
Monthly links

August readings

On remembering David Graeber, the service sector, and climate reparations

September 8, 2020September 10, 2020
Resources for a better future

Unequal exchange

Global trade conceals ecological and human exploitation in peripheries and maintains an unjust world order

September 7, 2020September 9, 2020
Resources for a better future

Offsetting

A policy tool that allows us to imagine a world in which everything is replaceable, and where there are no limits

August 17, 2020August 18, 2020
Resources for a better future

Extractivism

One of the most expansionist global enterprises—squashing any other ways of living with the land

August 3, 2020September 10, 2020
Resources for a better future

Extractivismo

Uno de los proyectos globales más expansionistas, que aplasta cualquier otra forma de vivir con la tierra

August 3, 2020September 10, 2020
Monthly links

July readings

On 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

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

July 20, 2020September 10, 2020
Photo essay

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

July 15, 2020July 23, 2020
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 readings

On our current political moment, Black Lives Matter, and food politics

July 3, 2020July 3, 2020
Resources for a better future

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

June 29, 2020September 10, 2020
Resources for a better future

Jevons paradox

Efficiency gains contribute to increasing production and consumption which increases the extraction of resources and the generation of wastes

June 16, 2020September 10, 2020
Book review

NOlympics, everywhere

In LA, a coalition to stop the Olympics pairs localism with internationalism

June 13, 2020June 14, 2020
Monthly links

May readings

On 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 nature

In the first entry of our new glossary, Eleanor Finley argues that there is no human nature, only human potential

June 1, 2020July 11, 2020
Reflections

Crisis Collage

How do we move ahead now?

May 20, 2020May 20, 2020
Essay

Planet of the dehumanized

Environmentalism 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 readings

Resources on the global COVID-19 pandemic

May 6, 2020June 2, 2020
Essay

When viruses shatter limits

Viruses 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 Imperialism

Moving beyond a politics of confusion towards Internationalism

April 11, 2020April 18, 2020
Book review

Now is the time to end the climate emergency

Reading “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 song

Comparisons 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 brink

In moments such as these, the landscape of possibility shifts. How can activists engage on the ground?

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020
Covid-19

Pandemic strike

Rob 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 forever

An endless repetition had taken hold of the world

March 9, 2020March 9, 2020
Monthly links

February readings

On 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 Deal

To 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 readings

On the overpopulation myth, green colonialism (and decolonialism), and the Wuhan coronavirus

February 3, 2020March 6, 2020
GND series

Energy and the Green New Deal

The complex challenge of powering societies

January 28, 2020January 28, 2020
Essay

Swedish colonialist neutrality

A tradition of double standards from historical colonialism to current environmental injustice

January 21, 2020January 23, 2020
GND series

Public money for environmental justice

We’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 money

How will we pay for the Green New Deal?

December 16, 2019December 18, 2019
GND series

A just food transition

Why 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 readings

On 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 assistant

It 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 Deal

How the GND could, should, must redefine “protectionism” and transform international trade

November 13, 2019November 13, 2019
GND series

Rethinking education for the Green New Deal

Governance for an eco-centered curriculum—or not?

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019
Not afraid of the ruins

Down Maria

There was only one prisoner left, and he would not live forever.

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019
Monthly links

October readings

On world-wide uprisings against austerity, Rojava, and working class environmentalism

November 2, 2019March 6, 2020
GND series

Shrink the military, shrink injustice

The US Green New Deal must be anti-imperialist

October 30, 2019October 30, 2019
GND series

A Green New Deal for an ecological economy

Introducing a series of proposals for a truly transformative GND

October 24, 2019October 24, 2019
Book review

Designing for a world after climate catastrophe

While architects are often told they will change the world, a new book fails to imagine what a world after capitalism could look like

October 22, 2019October 22, 2019
Monthly links

September readings

On climate fascism, climate de-nihilism, and climate rage

October 6, 2019March 6, 2020
Book review

Degrowth should be a core part of the just transition

A review of Degrowth by Giorgos Kallis

October 3, 2019October 4, 2019
Analysis

Utopia, not futurism: Why doing the impossible is the most rational thing we can do

This 1978 speech by Murray Bookchin is strikingly relevant today

October 2, 2019October 3, 2019
Not afraid of the ruins

Last stand on Ménez Hom

At the top of the Ménez Hom, between the earth and the sky, history had displayed the ability to repeat itself.

September 29, 2019December 5, 2019
Reflections

Life in flames

On pain and hope in the aftermath of catastrophic fires in Bolivia’s Chiquitanía and Amazon regions

September 24, 2019October 4, 2019
Not afraid of the ruins

The vine underground

“The unthinkable had happened. No one plans for the end of their own world.”

September 16, 2019September 19, 2019
Essay

Destructive space-time

How war bombs and resource extractivism compress past, present, and future

September 7, 2019September 7, 2019
Monthly links

August readings

On eco-fascism(s), the burning Amazon, and worldwide uprisings

September 3, 2019March 6, 2020
Analysis

Why a hipster, vegan, green start-up service economy lifestyle cannot be sustainable

Dematerialized service economies, industrial veganism and hipsterized eco-aesthetics will only deepen the social and ecological damage wrought by capitalism

August 29, 2019August 29, 2019
Strategy

Report card on Bernie Sanders’ Green New Deal

A hot take from an eco-socialist

August 27, 2019April 30, 2020
Not afraid of the ruins

A toy keyboard for a Coca-Cola bottle of gas: Amadeus’ story

“Mogadishu was slowly dying, like an LED at low battery”

August 26, 2019August 26, 2019
Not afraid of the ruins

Micro effect

“In the space of a summer month, the outbreak had infected 109 people, with 82 dead so far”

August 19, 2019August 21, 2019
Not afraid of the ruins

The founding of New Crockett, Texas

Hurricane Elmer had blown all the other record storms off the map

August 5, 2019August 5, 2019
Report-back

In the land of the rising sun, climate efforts are falling behind

As the Abe government and major corporations fail to take meaningful steps to reduce emissions, Japanese citizens are working to pick up the slack

August 3, 2019August 3, 2019
Monthly links

July readings

On global land conflicts, agro-ecology, and the fall of the discipline of economics

August 1, 2019March 6, 2020
Not afraid of the ruins

Super glue / Superlepak

‘Fuck, he can do this every single day. Why the fuck does he have to do it? What are we going to do? There’s no point in rushing like this and trying to save him each time he gets into a dark mood’, Ivan said, looking out of the taxi window.

July 15, 2019July 17, 2019
Essay

Redwashing capital

Left tech bros are honing Marx into a capitalist tool

July 11, 2019July 15, 2019
Monthly links

June readings

On batshit jobs, utopia vs. the apocalypse, and fascist environmentalism

July 8, 2019March 6, 2020
Not afraid of the ruins

Metamphynus baalis

Un bebé bisonte de la especie Metamphynus baalis es capaz de distinguir los humores fertilizados de las mujeres en los restos del sueño

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019
Report-back

The right to say no

Women organizing against extractivism in southern Africa

June 28, 2019July 7, 2019
Not afraid of the ruins

All the water

“Everything was on autopilot; the only thing the operator had to do was push a virtual button to engage the missiles.”

June 24, 2019July 7, 2019
Field notes

Dispatch from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

What it will take to build alliances with our neighbors to the South

June 17, 2019June 17, 2019
Futures

How much will the US Way of Life © have to change?

On the future of farming, socialist science, and utopia

June 10, 2019April 30, 2020
Monthly links

May readings

On the work we don’t talk about, Fully Automated Luxury Communism, and radical alternatives

June 6, 2019March 6, 2020
Monthly links

April readings

On Extinction Rebellion, climate stories, and industrial farming

May 3, 2019March 6, 2020
Degrowth

Degrowth is utopian, and that’s a good thing

A response to Socialist Forum on degrowth by Giorgos Kallis

April 26, 2019May 1, 2019
Monthly links

February & March readings

On eco-fascism, post-extractivism, and why we should have zero lawns

April 4, 2019March 6, 2020
Book review

Is Heidegger’s philosophy anti-Semitic?

Considering the new book, Heidegger and the Jews

March 20, 2019
Report-back

After mass mobilizations, what direction for the Belgian climate movement?

A report from a participant

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019
Monthly links

January readings

On the future of farming, Venezuela, and resources for Indigenous allyship

February 2, 2019March 6, 2020
Reflections

Gilets Jaunes: A slap in the face of our vocabulary

A report from an observer

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019
Monthly links

December readings

On burn-out, eco-primitivism, and the yellow vest movement

January 9, 2019March 6, 2020
Symbiosis

A new North American network emerges from the grassroots

Announcing a congress of municipal movements

January 7, 2019January 7, 2019
Narrative

Time for the subaltern to speak

The movement against waste incineration in Can Sant Joan, Catalonia

January 5, 2019October 5, 2020
Strategies

The 8th of December, the end of the month, and the end of the world

The yellow vest movement shows us the potential of a “convergence des luttes” to demand a just ecological transition

December 27, 2018January 7, 2019
Essay

Why we need alternatives to development

An excerpt from the forthcoming book Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary

December 17, 2018December 17, 2018
Monthly links

November readings

On the Green New Deal, the great grazing debate, and the end of the world

December 7, 2018March 6, 2020
Waste

How circular is the circular economy?

Why this proposed solution is little more than a magic trick

November 27, 2018
Strategies

Why libertarian municipalism is more needed today than ever before

To fight fascism and climate change, the left must rebuild political life

November 25, 2018

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