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.
Never before in the history of this country has the climate crisis been as relevant to a presidential election as it, very…
According to the IEA’s global electricity mix, non-renewable, unsustainable and highly polluting fossil fuels still make up 57% of electricity production with…
We have long known every tonne of carbon dioxide matters to the climate. But governments keep approving new fossil fuel projects –…
Collapse, like many of the terms that we absorb via osmosis, or from niche online sources, has a diffuse, deeply confusing quality.…
Climate activists engaged in nonviolent direct action are used to the rinse and repeat of arrest: handcuffs, short trip to jail, a misdemeanor…
Recently capitalism in Germany did not do too well – despite the neoliberal promise of eternal growth – economic output increased only…
In this interview, Tadzio Müller argues that the climate movement needs to rethink its strategies in light of worsening ecological and political…
Long before Little Red Riding Hood — or Rotkäppchen — and even before Tacitus’s Germania (98 AD), Germans had a quasi-mythical relationship…
Knowledge and concern about the climate crisis has grown exponentially in the past 25 years. But not among ultra-conservative and fascist political…
I remember watching This Changes Everything, a film about the climate crisis and its roots in capitalism. I felt outrage at greedy oil…
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