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- Production, distribution and consumption, access to wealth, common goods, and economies in transition
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January 06 2012
The Second Wind of the Worldwide Social Justice
Movement
We have to think of the world struggle as a long race, keeping the
eyes on the end goal – a different kind of world-system, far ...
By Immanuel Wallerstein
January 02 2012
The Century Ahead: Searching for Sustainability
We have examined our scenarios in great quantitative detail to the
year 2100 for eleven world regions. The summary presented ...
By Christi Electris ◾ Paul Raskin ◾ Richard Rosen ◾ Tellus Institute
December 14 2011
Governance of international trade for the green
economy
Today’s trade system may be incapable of steering the world into a
“green economy.” It is, however, a wisely constructed ...
By International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development ◾ Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz
December 13 2011
Global Environmental Governance: The Role of
Local Governments
What could a model for involvement of local governments in
international environmental governance look like?
By ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainibility ◾ Konrad Otto-Zimmermann
December 11 2011
Wealth, power and the future of the planet
Concentration of wealth is unjust and confers undue advantage to
those who then use this wealth primarily to usurp the ...
By International Forum on Globalization ◾ Jack Santa Barbara
December 10 2011
The Green Economy: the Wolf in Sheep’s clothing
Faced with evidence of the planet’s limitations, it is even more
urgent to stop the capitalist machinery of systematic ...
By Edgardo Lander ◾ Transnational Institute
December 09 2011
Tracks and Sidetracks for Biocivilization
Thinking the basis of a new civilization and becoming part of the
long process of social dismantlement and of reconstruction ...
By Cândido Grzybowski
November 30 2011
Anticapitalism and environmentalism as a
political alternative
We cannot analyse the global ecological crisis separately from the
crisis in which we are immersed or the critique of the ...
By Esther Vivas
November 27 2011
Other worlds are possible. Human progress in an
age of climate change
This report argues that our chances of triumphing over climate
change will rise dramatically if we change the context within ...
By Working Group on Climate Change and Development
November 26 2011
Great Transition: the Promise and Lure of the
Times Ahead
The global transition has begun—a planetary society will take shape
over the coming decades. But its outcome is in question. ...
By Global Scenario Group ◾ Paul Raskin ◾ Stockholm Environment Institute