A binary referendum on the UK’s membership of the legal and economic collaboration known as the European Union (EU) has divided and confused its people by forcing them to choose one or other option with little explanatory information, context or insight into the implications. Just over half of them — largely but not exclusively those…
A new UN working group on nuclear disarmament has embarked on a series of international meetings taking place through 2016 with a view to harnessing the clear and growing worldwide momentum for a total ban on nuclear weapons. The group’s work is frustrated by the absence of all the world’s nuclear-armed states from the group,…
Growing numbers of people are backing initiatives to move away from a fossil fuel based economy in response to the accelerating climate disruption now resulting in large-scale ecological die-offs, food and water shortages, species extinctions and, belatedly, public expressions of sorrow and fear that hint at the collective heartbreak just starting to unfold. The increased…
Indigenous women in villages of West Africa have demonstrated a 700 year old farming technique, which converts nutrient-poor soil into fertile farmland, to anthropologists and soil scientists from a number of Western universities. The villagers invited the scientists to live within their communities and observe the women at work as they added ash, bones and…
An international network of alternative economics experts has collaborated to produce an online platform to accelerate the shared understanding required for an effective transformation of the global economic system to achieve environmental sustainability. Economic pathfinders Peter Lipman, Chair of Transition Networks UK, and Jules Peck, of the New Economics Foundation, are bringing together researchers and…