Reports, analysis, program, and strategies for change bearing on our natural ecology. It focuses on content about grassroots environmental activism and that reimages a post-capitalist society that lives within ecological limits. It includes content relating to eco-socialiam, participatory socialism, and the more life-affirming perspectives on degrowth.
When Mel Mandy gave birth to her first child twenty-five years ago, the doctor told her off for smoking while pregnant. Her…
We live in an age of manufactured scarcity. In a world richer than ever before, roughly one 10th of the worldās population…
Let me try to tell you what an old man I really am. As a start, imagine this: I still read the…
The climate crisis is worsening many of the economic and social inequalities already faced by women and girls, making it harder to…
One of President Donald Trumpās top-tier fixations is to heap ridicule on both climate science and all projects committed to combating the…
BROOKHAVEN, N.Y.āThe crowd grew restless at Brookhaven Town Hall on Long Island as residents voiced their concerns about groundwater contamination from a…
Imagine a future in which everyone enjoys high levels of wellbeing; where 90% of the worldās population doubles their income but works…
There is something vertiginous in certain coincidences. When I discovered the new ERA logo, something stopped within me ā as breath stops…
The defining signature of the past 6,000 years of human civilization is the domestication of the hydrosphereācapturing, damming, canalizing, reorienting, propertizing, privatizing,…
California Governor Jerry Brown was an eloquent early spokesperson for the urgent necessity of responding to climate change during his first two terms in…
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