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Paradigm shift needed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss

Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Western colonial expansion and the industrial interests it’s facilitated have long been rooted in a sense...

Creating third spaces of learning for a post-capitalism world: lessons from educators and activists

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Spaces that prefigure a post-capitalist world are all around us if we know where to look....

Tim Berners-Lee: Re-creating the Internet to Enable Users to Own Their Personal Data

Click here to view original web page at www.commondreams.org "You need to get back to a situation where you have autonomy, you have control of...

To resolve youth violence, Canada must move beyond policing and prison

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com The most recent shooting involving a Toronto high school student this October highlighted a rising problem...

Why we need open-source science innovation — not patents and paywalls

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com As we prepare to invest money to prevent the next global pandemic and find solutions to...

The Pacific Region is Under Threat: We Must Act Now to Mobilise Climate Finance

Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net The Pacific Island Countries (PICs) – 14 small island developing nations in the Pacific Ocean –...

Which Future Are We Living In?

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Two tumultuous decades have passed since the publication of Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of...

Capitalism: Why We Need to Scrap It

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org This book provides a fairly short but detailed critical discussion of the nature of our basically...

The UK needs a ‘right to food’. This is how it could work in practice

Click here to view original web page at www.opendemocracy.net As the UK’s catastrophic cost of living crisis deepens, calls are getting louder for a ‘Right...

In America: Re-imagining Safety and Liberation Without Police

Click here to view original web page at www.yesmagazine.org In Donald Trump’s America, the word “freedom” has been appropriated by the far Right to justify...

The Goal Shouldn’t Be Ending Poverty. It Should Be Human Flourishing.

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com A recent New York Times report showing a major drop in child poverty got everyone’s attention....

For Canadians with disabilities, multiple types of support were important during COVID-19

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Canadians who lost their incomes and accumulated debt during COVID-19 are still struggling to recover financially....

How can we build an international labour court?

Click here to view original web page at socialeurope.eu Multinationals dominate the economy but no international body exists to defend workers in supply chains. How...

Can we build a carbon market that values nature and rewards local stewardship?

Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com A new form of conservation finance fuses community, wildlife, and nature with the voluntary carbon market,...

Canada Throws Out Half the Food It Produces. What If We Ate It Instead?

Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca ‘It’s easier and cheaper to just throw food away instead of find someone who...

Top Economists Hail Chilean Constitution as ‘New Global Standard’ on Climate, Inequality

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org A group of world-renowned economists and social scientists published an open letter Wednesday hailing Chile’s draft...

A “Blue Commons” Agenda to Stop the Plunder of Our Oceans

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Even though the oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s surface and provide half the oxygen we...

Let’s count what really matters

Click here to view original web page at socialeurope.eu Tracking four alternative economic indicators would provide a very different view of comparative performance than GDP. Despite...

To Get to Net Zero, This City Is Making a Map

Click here to view original web page at www.bloomberg.com Ithaca, New York, has committed to fully decarbonizing by 2030. To achieve that goal, the city...

C-11: Community TV wants bureaucrats to overcome corporate pressure

Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Canada’s community TV stations understand that the federal government’s revisions to the Broadcasting Act represent a...

What Climate Justice Looks Like

Click here to view original web page at www.yesmagazine.org On June 11, 2001, President George W. Bush refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, an international...

Less policing is a move towards community safety

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Defund should not be a dirty word. In fact, defunding public police is a step towards choosing...

Ford needs to use a social commons perspective to solve the housing crisis

Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca The Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area (GTHA) is in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis. It’s not...

As We Enter 2022, Seven Bold Actions We Need For A Post-Pandemic World

In our October newsletter we talked about the need for bold thinking in four areas: housing and homelessness, transforming seniors care, embracing the shift to a caring and green economy . . .
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