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As renewable energy demand rises, mining for minerals in the Amazon is at a critical point

By Yolanda Ariadne Collins Illegal mining for critical minerals needed for the global renewable energy transition is increasingly driving deforestation in Indigenous lands in the Amazon.…

Yolanda Ariadne CollinsOctober 3, 2024

Short Essays

When social movements meet through water flows: A reflection from the Greek context through Two Festive Events

By Lydia Karazarifi The 10th-year anniversary of the self-organized referendum against water privatization in Thessaloniki and the annual celebration of seeds in Stagiates inspired reflections about…

Lydia KarazarifiOctober 1, 2024

Reviews

Book Review: “We Are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle” (Cambridge:Polity, 2023)

Alexander Dunlap reviews and discusses Jean-Baptiste Vidalou’s We Are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle. (more…)

Alexander DunlapSeptember 25, 2024

Short Essays

These Mountains Fight Back Between Anarchist Commons and Fascist Environmentalism (part II of Dams, Forest Fires, and the Hidden Commons)

In Part I, we looked at how shepherds in the Pyrenees are breaking down borders and bringing back old practices of pastoralism to restore the…

Peter GelderloosSeptember 10, 2024

Long Reads

Dams, Forest Fires and the Hidden Commons – Part I: Social Control and the Ecological Crisis in Catalunya

by Peter Gelderloos We’re saturated by a hegemonic assumption: green energy megaprojects are our only hope for the future. But on these mountain paths, perched…

Peter GelderloosSeptember 3, 2024

Webinar “Seeding Futures: Connecting Feminist Political Ecology and Agroecology”

These rivers shall not be dammed! On behalf of a free-flowing river in the Ecuadorian Amazon

A Climate of Fear! An Overview of the Criminalization of Climate Justice Activism in Germany (Part II)

As renewable energy demand rises, mining for minerals in the Amazon is at a critical point

When social movements meet through water flows: A reflection from the Greek context through Two Festive Events

Book Review: “We Are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle” (Cambridge:Polity, 2023)

These Mountains Fight Back Between Anarchist Commons and Fascist Environmentalism (part II of Dams, Forest Fires, and the Hidden Commons)

Dams, Forest Fires and the Hidden Commons – Part I: Social Control and the Ecological Crisis in Catalunya

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