What INGOs can learn from Greta Thunberg and the global climate strikes
Article / 15th October 2019Combining analysis, outrage and active citizenship can build and sustain large-scale public engagement, writes Stephen McCloskey for openDemocracy Transformation.
Plunder of the commons: compensate the commoners!
Article / 4th October 2019After centuries of enclosure, privatisation and colonisation, it’s time that the commons were returned to all of us, writes Guy Standing in openDemocracy.
We need biodiversity-based agriculture to solve the climate crisis
Article / 4th October 2019Regenerating the planet through biodiversity-based ecological processes has become a survival imperative for the human species and all beings. It is not just a climate solution, but also a path to eradicating world hunger, explains Dr. Vandana Shiva.
Much “foreign aid” Is taxpayer-funded plundering of the global south
Article / 25th September 2019In actuality, USAID has been a taxpayer-supported program for neocolonial exploiters requiring long-term protection at public expense, writes Barbara G. Ellis for Truthout.
Only a global Green New Deal can save the planet
Article / 20th September 2019The Sanders plan for a Green New Deal recognizes that unprecedented international cooperation will be needed—with the US doing its fair share—if we’re to have any hope of solving the climate crisis. By Tom Athanasiou for The Nation.