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Lessons from Lockdown: Looking after each other betterThe way in which individuals, organisations and governments responded to benefit the wider community points the way toward a world where this way of...
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Local food for rapid transitionAs a nature-loving child growing up in the 2000s, I was debilitated and depressed by the idea that we could either save species and ecosystems, or provide a...
Story of change
Local, civic action is growing a climate revolution from belowIn the yawning gap between national action and what is needed to stop climate breakdown, a rapid rise of local and city level activism is growing a...
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Mountain recognised as legal entity in New ZealandIt is good to see that a mountain in New Zealand, previously named by its colonial invaders as Mr Egmont, has just been given the same legal status as a...
Story of change
Nature and local democracy – how a River Parliament shows what community control can doIt is often said that democracy is too slow to win urgent ecological progress. But when communities in Rajasthan, India, formed a special parliament to...
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New Badvertising book out nowThe new edition of a great book by our friends at Badvertising is out! https://theecologist.org/2024/sep/23/how-many-ads-do-you-see READ: The new, updated...
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Rapid transition to beat the heat: Community ResilienceExtreme weather events like the brutal heatwave engulfing much of Europe in July 2022, highlight the urgent need to foster community resilience. Much like...
Story of change
Rojava in Syria – growing local democracy and defending ecology in the midst of conflictIn 2012 in Rojava, Northern Syria, a group of Kurds set up a secular, ethnically inclusive and bottom-up democratic system, in which all ethnic and...
Story of change
S**t matters – how the Covid-19 crisis reveals both progress and the challenge of universal sanitationNever has a resource crisis been brought so swiftly to the attention of the global North than when toilet paper was suddenly in short supply and even...