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The Prosumer Economy: Being Like a Forest

Uygar Özesmi

The contemporary world economy is based on large-scale production, competition, growth, consumption and profit maximization, increasingly the cause of rampant economic inequality all over the world, and extreme disharmony with nature. To reach its objective of selling the …

Action, Agenda, Analysis, Ideas, Stories

Small and Shared vs McMansions and Slums

Anitra Nelson

Housing and its deficiencies is a key topic, especially in cities around the world. Affordable, conveniently located, well-designed and environmentally sustainable housing seems further and further out of reach. Where and how we live, our home and household, …

Conversations, Ideas, Stories

RED Conversations Series

Ashish Kothari interviews Ruth Mwangi about the path-breaking idea of “Community Currencies” and how it is being implemented in Kenya.

Ashish Kothari: Ruth, could you give us a short introduction to the work you are doing in Kenya?

Ruth

Conversations, Ideas, Stories

RED Conversations Series

Ashish Kothari talks to Joel Morist I Botines about cooperatives, commons and the need to shrink the ecological footprint of the contemporary society.

Ashish – Joel, can you tell us about the work being done by Cooperativa Integral Catalana?

Joel

Analysis

Is There A Way Out?

Ashish Kothari and Pallav Das

One doesn’t need exceptional socio-political acumen to recognize that the contemporary world is in a state of toxic ferment. The dystopian future of environmental and economic collapse that we’ve seen advancing menacingly for long seems …

Analysis

A Path To Freedom

By Gustavo Esteva

It is possible to say that underdevelopment afflicted me when I was 13 years old. On January 20, 1949 I became underdeveloped along with two billion other people of the non-western world, the former colonies,  when president …

Agenda, Conversations

RED Conversations Series

Towards A Radical Pluriverse

A dialogue between Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Alberto Acosta and Federico Demaria, moderated by Ashish Kothari

 Ashish – How would we describe the world we live in and what are its dominant trends?

ArielIn …

Ideas

‘Nature’s Grandchildren’

By Aseem Shrivastava

 

Can we be human in the absence of nature, asked Rabindranath Tagore?

 

To Civilization

 Give back the wilderness, take away the city

Embrace if you will your steel, brick and stonewalls

O newfangled civilization! Cruel …

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