Science & Systems

The Anthropocene is generating despair and desolation. The Symbiocene represents its opposite.

Marketing strategies and product design employed by major tech companies put profit before sustainability.

Humans as systems have complex systems of needs. Can capitalism as a system meet these needs, while also meeting its own systemic needs?

Ecolocracy is a 'green print' of how to run an organisation based on natural systems.

'The pursuit of profit has taken priority over people, over the environment, over everything.'

The British Ecological Society has published a new book on rewilding.

Challenging individual consumerism must occur in synchrony with critiquing broader capitalist systems.

A new report outlines measures for transitioning to a circular economy.

Tragically, the Bolivian Government has backed down from its once-lauded support of the Rights of Mother Earth.

Human need is the driver for ecological and social change. How can we use dialectics, and systems theory, to examine need as a concept.

Relying on unproven technologies such as Carbon Capture and Storage is a dangerous distraction from the more systematic changes required to tackle climate change.

A rich forest in Tanzania has been placed under protection, supported by World Land Trust and other partners.

Local direct democracy groups across North America are assembling a revolutionary confederation.

What role does technology play in our ecologically sustainable future, and how do we get there?

Chimps demonstrate elaborate cognitive skills by 'using' each other to perform beneficial tasks.

Defra’s decision to interfere with badger cull licensing could be unlawful, new research suggests.

Humpback whales participate in a shared, constantly evolving song cycle.

New report details options for increasing demand for post-consumer recycled waste.

Scientists studying Antarctic penguins have hit upon a reliable, low cost method of data collection using the simple time-lapse camera.

Programme of 'river remedies' led to increased wellbeing among vulnerable adults and teenagers.

Moving away from fossil fuels will require transforming our technological, social, and economic systems, rather than focussing on individual consumption.