text: Fighting for more affordable, accessible places to live means fighting for a less carbon-intensive future
  On human-environment relations, grassroots environmental activism, and climate depression, with Salvatore De Rosa
  “She enjoys the way they fill the space with artificial flight; an awkward posture that makes their death seem comical.”
  On decolonial re-imaginings, the escalating climate crisis, and the root causes of socio-ecological problems
  On different perspectives used in science fiction narratives, situated knowledge, and how discontent is useful
  “We were waiting to be accepted as refugees in Iceland, the only country left in the region with stable electricity from their geothermal resources, and the only place that would take UK citizens.”
  “The sisters slow their rocking and let the man walk back to his car. They know what has to be done to keep him away.”
  Every city has its graveyard of community groups. Without a strategic vision, local projects cannot possibly amount to a systemic alternative to capitalism.
  We can start building new tools for a democratic and ecological society once we understand hierarchy as the central problem
  “Theirs was an undeveloped society, I thought, and their success over the past centuries has been largely accidental.”
  “If an infected robionic is discovered at any stage, universal mandate requires its immediate incineration”
  “The facts revealed in the historical record are clear: most people were terrified of their neighbours.”
  An interview with Derek Wall, author of Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals, on the need to think beyond market and state.
  “Keith’s livelihood was sandwiched between an ocean of algorithms and a ceiling of decision-making programs.”
  Changing structures, opposing hierarchies, and embracing the struggle as lessons for the degrowth community
  Residents of a Barcelona neighbourhood make use of historical research in their fight to reclaim a cooperative
  An Indian boom in dams, spurred by economic development and financial speculation, is increasingly leading to social and environmental conflicts
  We can debate endlessly about which type of renewable energy is better, but in the end, what matters is who has their hand on the thermostat, and who does not