Editors’ Picks

Rebuilding a house is hard enough – especially if you aren’t wealthy or insured – but it is far more challenging to rebuild a sense of home.

‘We must remind ourselves that we are powerful, we must dig into what has worked and hold it high and learn from it.’

Pollution, poisoning and the loss of human life due to unsafe water are the accepted costs of doing business in America.

Reflections on organising next year's degrowth conference, which will explore strategies for social and ecological transformation.

'It feels urgent to be swimming now, in this smoky, impossible lake: not only to enjoy this world while it still exists as it is, but to face the reality of what is happening.'

'For the rich, much much less, while for the billions who lack the basics: more good food, better housing, abundant clean water...'

We must call for an end to the deregulatory ‘free trade’ and tax policies that make practices like re-importation and redundant trade profitable.

Villagers are using the law to take on lignite mining in Germany.

Protests erupt in Lebanon after a week of forest fires and higher taxes.

Hollywood blockbusters comprise a consumer fantasy that ignores the violent nature of global capitalism and corporate extraction.

Fossil fuel subsidies have been reinstated in Ecuador following violent protests. Still, 'people's demands for a safe, stable economy and environment are not being listened to.'

Grassroots approaches can protect tropical forests in Brazil and Senegal.

A worker-owned cooperative in Victoria, Australia, is drawing on the combined forces of industrial and environmental action.

‘Can we love individual immigrants, while opposing mass migration?’ The answer is no.

Grassroots opposition is mounting in India as new coal projects displace communities and destroy ancient forests.