Politics, Culture, and Identity

Art 55. The forest, our greatest treasure

Juliana Miranda was born and raised in the community of San Francisco de Pachijal, northwest of Quito, in the Chocó region of the Andes. Juli is the youngest of 14 children. At the age of 22, no on...

Owning your time, owning yourself

Two people, living at both ends of the island of Muisne in Ecuador, have a lot in common: they are friends since childhood, after school, each sought life in different places, and, recently, they c...

Women farmers need to value ourselves

What happens when people seeking a transition to regenerative ways of life receive a basic income for 24 months? Guadalupe Pilapaña, a fellow farmer and producer of sugarcane and its appetizing by-...

Moral of the disaster

Hurricanes are tropical cyclones and consist of storms with extreme winds and deluge rains. We have all heard about these extreme climate events, increasingly frequent due to climate changes, undou...

What are we called to be?

This motivating experience is about Lore and Feli, about these two characters, with their children Sara and Juan, and revolves around the challenge we all know in our lives, in the search for t...

This Hyderabad-based organisation has helped over 250.000 farmers through permaculture

Aranya Agricultural Alternatives is striving to achieve ecological and sustainable agricultural livelihoods through permaculture farming.

“The economy does not take into account the planet we live on”

Oxford academic Kate Raworth publishes Doughnut Economics, a book in which she demonstrates that conventional economics has led us astray.

What we talk about when we talk about the collaborative economy (and what we want to talk about)

Justice. Love. Freedom. Democracy. Collaboration. We are all for all that is good and against all that is bad. Who could be against justice? But it only takes a quick look at the major controversi...

Against the myth of laissez-faire and basic income

Are you in favour of the Immaculate Conception of Mary? Are you in favour of allowing Cinderella to return home after twelve o'clock? Are you in favour of the use of Daenerys Targaryen's dragon fla...

The phenomenon of useless jobs (interview with David Graeber)

It's as if someone is inventing meaningless jobs just to keep us all busy. And this is precisely where the mystery lies. This is exactly what should not happen in capitalism.

Anti-capitalism in 5 minutes

Capitalism has given many things to those of us living in the First World (much of it of marginal or questionable value) in exchange for our souls, our hope for progressive politics, and the chance...

These five rebel movements want to change how money works

While other currents such as modern monetary theory rely on human institutions, crypto-crusaders consider politics to be an absurd endeavor.

Paying Off Favors: The New Mask of Capitalism

There is currently a great debate about the scope that the collaborative economy, or "share economy" in English, can have in society. In the midst of the controversy, arguments arise that, apparent...

Serge Latouche: “Sustainable development is a slogan”

The French philosopher, promoter of the concept of degrowth, criticises the "waste society". For Latouche, the growth society is based on the unlimited accumulation of wealth, destroys nature and i...

Fossil-free diet

To avert catastrophic climate scenarios, we must phase out fossil fuels while transforming food systems. A growing body of scientific research shows that both challenges are not only equally urgent...

Crisis in India’s bread basket

How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity

Sowing seeds of ecocentrism

It is often rare to meet someone who aptly suits their name- “an aptronym!” Jeewika (Hindi for livelihood or the one who gives life) is one such being. As an educator–ecofeminist–farmer–ecopreneur,...