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Building Trust in Many Worlds
The Climate-Ecology Blueprint envisages that a strategy for life within planetary boundaries requires reforming democracies by involving in the decision making processes a Citizens’ Assembly, or multiple assemblies, where people gather to deliberate with each other and build trust. Trust is a crucial component that needs to be enhanced through policy and action. In a…
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Vidas Ativas
From South America, Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier shares her encounters with Asian researchers and educators Amporn Marddent, Monira Ashan, and the Venerable Dhammananda. From their diverse backgrounds as academics, teachers, migrants, and activists engaged in culture and spirituality, they bring a range of issues that highlight the inherent relationship between knowledge production and a caring…
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The Bitter Sweet Truth: the arduous path from the cocoa bean to chocolate
The Climate-Ecology Blueprint challenges the current economic paradigm of GDP measures of growth and consumerism, which promotes supply chains with unsustainable extractivism, pollution and waste. It provides a set of criteria that guards against climate and ecological injustice and greenwashing. It also has a measurable target to increase the health, abundance, diversity and resilience of…
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Voices of Latin America: Latin America at a breaking point
Latin America Bureau’s (LAB) has been bringing the voices of Latin American activists to English speaking audiences. Listen to the presentation by the author of “The Heart of our Earth” Tom Gatehouse about the concerns raised by the activists LAB has worked with. Latin America remains one of the most dangerous regions for environmental activists.…
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Resources for Citizens’ Assemblies
The Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies (KNOCA) aims to improve the commissioning, design, implementation and impact of climate assemblies, using evidence, knowledge exchange and dialogue. KNOCA – Knowledge Network On Climate Assemblies Could Citizens’ Assemblies be Democracy’s Missing Link? An article by David Van Reybrouck, who has taken part in designing the Ostbelgien Model in…
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A case for degrowth in the North –
Peru shows that International Law is not effective in enforcing the Right to a Healthy Environment in Extractive contexts. Anna Heikkinen and Aramis Castro write in the Guardian about how one of the biggest zinc mines in the world, Antamina located in Peru, is causing glaciers to melt and water to dry up. Mining can…
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The Art of Organising Hope
Listen to Ana Cecilia Dinerstein on the Art of Organising Hope, and the ontology of becoming, so important for social movements. We have been convinced by power that there is no alternative. Indeed, referring the post-Covid amnesia governments in the global North seem to be having, Rowan Williams writes that we are constantly being fed…
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Citizens’ Assembly – what is it?
Understanding social processes that disable political systems from addressing climate and natural emergencies is key to combating climate and natural crises. People need to be included in decision-making processes as without people’s agreement, we cannot advance in decision-making. Deliberative democracy means the possibility of citizens to influence decision-making processes between elections. A Citizens’ Assembly using…
