What is localisation really about? An introduction to the global movement building resilient local economies and communities.

Climate breakdown erodes people’s lives. It doesn’t arrive with a bang or a whimper but a steady, crushing squeeze.

Climate breakdown is driving a new commodity supercycle, putting the squeeze once again on those least able to afford it.

Degrowth is too often portrayed merely as an economic idea when it is, in fact, just as much a cultural notion. The culture of degrowth calls for us to view ourselves as stewards of the planet.

To save the planet, the degrowth movement calls not for us to sacrifice prosperity, but to redefine it.

Indigenous and traditional communities across Africa are taking matters into their own hands, reviving their lands, waters and Earth-centred cultures in the midst of the climate crisis.

Here, three storytellers from Uganda, Zimbabwe and Kenya share how Indigenous communities are reviving culture and restoring nature where they are.

You will often hear about climate justice policy for the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom such as the Green New Deal or the Green Recovery. But what does climate justice policy look like in Latin America and the Caribbean?

Art has the ability to raise awareness and to tell stories; art can reflect back at us the world we live in, depict visions of the future, and shed light on histories and cultures gone by, both key to reimagining the world we want to cocreate.

But beyond raising awareness and contributing to storytelling, art can play an active role in effecting change.

Easy answers can be tempting, but oversimplifying the ocean crisis can do more harm than good. Will McCallum explores the fundamentals behind fishing.

“It is quite frequently that we come across articles and papers that declare the Asia Pacific region as the biggest contributor to ocean plastic. Labelling these countries as polluters is both facetious and inaccurate.”

Satyarupa Shekhar, Asia Pacific Coordinator for #BreakFreeFromPlastic, is shifting the narrative of the plastic waste crisis in the Asia Pacific Region…

A quiet revolution is underway. And it’s sprouting where you might least expect it. In old baths and window boxes. In reclaimed parking lots and allotment plots. This is an urban seed revolution…

Watch the short film ‘A Quiet Revolution’ from The Gaia Foundation

Created by Outspoken Narrative and Green Teenz RVA, this short documentary film discusses environmental racism in the context of Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.

Speaking with community advocates, Jovanni and Brianne, this film looks at how environmental racism is impacting people on a daily basis, some of the underlying causes, and what Richmond’s Sustainability Office (and individuals) can do to help.

“Focusing on emissions allows for the actual crises to be side-stepped. It becomes a justification for other forms of extraction and pillaging.”

How do we address the root of our ecological crises, and not just the symptoms? We can start by repairing our relationship with nature…

The idea of net zero at its core is about balance: a net zero world in theory is a world we’d want to live in. But reducing emissions is also a matter of climate justice.

Can goals of Net Zero by 2050 help us address the need to confront our growth-based economy? Or is this just another form of greenwashing?

In climate talks and global goals of emissions reduction, we often hear politicians congratulating themselves and their country for being climate leaders as their emissions fall. But behind this hot air lies a lesser-known phenomenon revealing the reality of many so-called emission cuts: carbon outsourcing.

If the transition to renewable energy is not a just transition, then it’s no transition at all but rather a continuation of exploitative systems.

In this film shared via InsightShare, we witness how green energy projects are threatening the livelihoods of communities on the shores of Lake Turkana, as local communities are being dispossessed of their land due to the expanding wind farm.