Resistance and Alternatives

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-...

Of rustic bread and authentic coherence

While walking along Medellín Street on our way to the downtown area of Mexico City, we bought a loaf of bread by pure chance. The bread did not last long as the family ate it in no time at all. We ...

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...

Incidence from the chacra

What began in the 1990s in Peru, with the struggle against the indiscriminate use of pesticides, has not ended, but the Alternative Agriculture Action Network (RAAA) has combined protest with propo...

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...

Mutual nurturing

In Catachilla and Rancho Nuevo, two communities in the municipality of Santivañez, Cochabamba - Bolivia, a group of people have managed to adapt to the climate crisis, particularly to extreme wat...

Sun burns free

In the highlands, north of the Mexican capital, there is sun all day long, more than three hundred days a year. When Gregorio came from Germany to do a social year in the diocese of Tula, he o...

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...

“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.

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...

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...

The search for alternatives: key aspects and principles

The earth, the womb of all life, is in trouble. Humanity, ridden with its own crises of inequality and exploitation, has mistreated its only home to the extent that life as we know it is itself imp...