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'Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto' is a glimmer of hope shining through otherwise dark times.

In a world where capitalism and green growth are often touted as the only options, Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto is a glimmer of hope shining through otherwise dark times.

This article will be released in full online June 3, 2023. Brian Napoletano considers the implications of recent work by Kohei Saito, in which Saito argues that…

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“On September 25 Italy will hold elections following the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi and the concern is palpable. The Economist wrote that they could hardly come at a less opportune time, in the midst of at least three interconnected crises: the invasion of Ukraine, the energy crisis and inflation, which in late August reached 8.4% in Italy, its highest level since 1986.”

On September 25 Italy will hold elections following the resignation of Prime Minister Pario Draghi and the concern is palpable.

Making peace with the biosphere will require building communities and relationships that are focused on protecting life—human and nonhuman

Mayors of Madrid and Barcelona, Manuela Carmena Castrillo and Ada Colau, during the Fearless Cities conference in 2017. Photo: Barcelona En Comú / Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) When the citizen platform Barcelona En Comú invited activists and organizations from around the world to Barcelona for the Fearless Cities Summit in 2017, we hoped that the event would mark a turning point for the municipalist movement. Just two years previously, our citizen candidacy had been catapulted into office on a wave ...

Author In the years before his death, my father wrote a series of books entitled The Third Revolution. In them, he analyzed transformative revolutionary moments in history, beginning with the late-medieval uprisings and German Peasant Wars of the 16th century, and ending, four volumes later, with the Spanish Civil War. Studying this revolutionary history gave my father solace — it took him back to a time when revolutionary ideals animated everyday life, when utopian cries lived on the lip...