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The undisclosed interests trashing our lives - to be revealed in The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism and How It Came to Control Your Life featuring George Monbiot.

The recent recurring ecological shocks may finally be provoking some fresh thinking amongst the world’s elite policymakers.

Economists in the mainstream have not even begun to understand the implications of ecological systems collapse.

Guy Smallman has been documenting protest for decades. This week he noticed a change in the public's response to Just Stop Oil.

The great acceleration - in GDP, population, cities, travel, deforestation, pollution - is on some metrics stuttering. What does this mean for a just transition?

The extreme heat of the upcoming El Niño years should compel us to subordinate profit motives to urgent climate goals. This article first appeared at Truthout.

Climate breakdown is causing mental breakdown. (Trigger warning: suicide).

Extinction Rebellion has a whole new strategy. Will it work?

Stop spending public funds on carbon capture failure – researchers.

Human rights violations reported as villagers 'gagged' during negotiations for compensation from Rio Tinto’s QMM mine in Madagascar.

The degrowth movement is on the ascent, and Marxists are joining the debate, spurred by Kohei Saito's best-selling book on "degrowth communism".

Small is Beautiful author EF Schumacher proposed organisational principles that would allow for both freedom and order.

Our climate strategy must combat the 'technofixes-plus-markets' fraud.

It has taken the plant-based food movement decades to get to where it is now - could the edible insect industry be next?

Challenging climate delayers and the charge of hypocrisy.

42 reasons why fuel tax cuts and price caps just add fuel to the fire.

The pursuit of profits under capitalism means the fossil fuel industry continues to drive us to the edge of climate catastrophe.

A review of Road to Nowhere: what Silicon Valley gets wrong about the future of transportation, by Paris Marx.

Humanity faces existential choices - but is still to decide how to make fair decisions.

Climate catastrophe: current global governance is not good enough.

The buzz around the hydrogen economy is shifting up a gear. But is hydrogen the spearhead technology in a green transition, or an elaborate bait-and-switch orchestrated by Big Oil and Gas?

Climate activists are facing significant prison sentences. This is what it is like. And this is why we do it.

What degrowth thinkers can learn from free market economist Friedrich Hayek and the father of public relations, Edward Bernays.

The North Sea has long supported local economies – and with offshore wind becoming a popular choice of renewable energy.