Relational ecologies, decolonial and feminist approaches offer suggestions for a more just, less exploiting and less extractivist #EU#bioeconomy
Check out our blog written with @Tom_H_Oliver@Lylamehta and @Jacopo_Giuntoli. Thanks @IDS_UK for publishing!
"Rise of #capitalism coincided with a deterioration in human welfare"
#Economic autonomy and #FoodSovereignty are fundamental to achieving global well-being.
🔴Article from @jasonhickel's 2023 highlights rundown.
https://t.co/PQeC3AQs5u
🌟 Big Win: High EU Biomethane Target Dropped! 🎉
We're thrilled to announce a significant win in our advocacy efforts! Our collective push for change has succeeded—the proposed high EU biomethane target has been officially dropped! https://t.co/xvwGwcsQ2H
Listen up. Gaza is a blueprint for all of us this century. This is what the first real signal of this new century looks like, out in the open, clear for all to see.
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🌍 Concerned about food system and #climate risks from the EU #biomethane target. 🤝 Non-profits in food security, sustainable land use, clean transportation, and climate action joined our letter. Read it here:
https://t.co/jNVrOLYPIb
Biomethane is touted as a ‘green’ alternative to fossil gas by its industry proponents...
🚨But @FeedbackEU’s new analysis exposes how EU proposals to ramp up production reflect corporate interests & could be an environmental disaster.
A thread 🧵👇 (1/5)https://t.co/fFn5QeeAbt
Blog now online! Sabaheta Ramčilović-Suominen discusses her experience of the 'radically unradical' Beyond Growth conference.
@SabahetaRamilo1#BeyondGrowth#BeyondGrowth2023
https://t.co/dMljLtcTEi
As floods & fires rise, oceans boil & ice melts, and "safe" temperatures are breached, something momentous just happened in the heart of the EU. No one has heard about it: journalists were present, but their editors refused to publish 🤯.
🧵, please RT.
#BeyondGrowth2023
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Wonderful and inspiring Beyond Growth 2023 Conference ended yesterday in Brussels!
Degrowth came to the European Parliament, hopefully to stay.
Next stop - Zagreb! 📷 (See you, @ph_lamberts!)
📢 Raccogliamo firme affinché tutte le università italiane istituiscano un corso pluralista e trasversale a tutti i corsi di laurea sulla crisi ecosociale!
🙏 Firmate, retwittate e fate girare? https://t.co/ZllZex676G
🧵 Segue thread sul senso di questa raccolta👇
#EndFossil
The time has come: our first publications are online! We’re super excited to welcome you in to the new home for #degrowth research. You can view our first publications, including an editorial, our manifesto, and four great essays here. More to come! 👇
https://t.co/1aNModBBK4
How do we quantify the intangible benefits that many sustainability initiatives bring about? And if we compare these benefits and costs, which implications for decision-making arise?
In my open lecture, I'll try to formulate an answer to these questions: https://t.co/vOletIEQdv
Delighted to be a part of this @EU_ScienceHub report with @GeorgeMonbiot@g_kallis & @SabahetaRamilo1 exploring how to move beyond the tired paradigm of infinite economic growth that benefits the increasingly few.
https://t.co/iyBM1EhkCt
If you need a definition for green sacrifice zone and green colonialism.
"The Sami, the only recognised indigenous people in the European Union, are expected to carry the burden of the demand for ”green minerals” by EU politicians and industry." https://t.co/XEkV8jr6sl
New Nature paper. Europe already outsources much ag production, fueling tropical deforestation. Bioenergy in Fit for 55 plan does more: diverts 20% of EU cropland to bioenergy, 4x increase in wood imports for bioenergy, and loss of half of EU's diverse semi-natural grasslands.