Monthly Archives: February 2023

Around the world, we are witnessing important shifts in our understanding of progress and development. Societies and governments are moving beyond evaluating progress in terms of GDP or average income levels. Instead, some of them are increasingly focusing on evaluating … Continue reading →

The Beyond Growth 2023 Conference is a multi-stakeholder event aiming to discuss and co-create policies for sustainable prosperity in Europe, based on a systemic and transformative approach to economic, social and environmental sustainability and its encompassing governance framework. This three … Continue reading →

The rapid decline of Earth’s most numerous animals is a major threat to the biosphere by Ian Angus “The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be … Continue reading →

An appeal to leaders, institutions, and our brothers and sisters, from the Ecosocial and Intercultural Pact of the South. On February 10 2023, a collective of movements, civil society organizations, activist groups and their partners launched this Manifesto. A collective … Continue reading →

Researchers used ChatGPT to produce clean, convincing text that repeated conspiracy theories and misleading narratives. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/technology/ai-chatbots-disinformation.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20230209&instance_id=84888&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=21179734&segment_id=124807&user_id=5de7ee6d33be0224cdc115e8d0d80b44

“The crisis of the existing world system can either entrench inequalities,” the declaration asserts, or it can “embolden” popular movements throughout the Global South to “reclaim” their role as protagonists “in the construction of a new world order based on … Continue reading →

Scotland has set out a bold new vision for towns and cities that aims to cut private car use by ensuring all services are within a 20-minute walk or cycle from a person’s front door. The planning reforms, which were … Continue reading →

The influential academic says renewables alone can halt climate crisis, with technologies such as carbon capture expensive wastes of time “Combustion is the problem – when you’re continuing to burn something, that’s not solving the problem,” says Prof Mark Jacobson. … Continue reading →

The US’s transition to electric vehicles could require three times as much lithium as is currently produced for the entire global market, causing needless water shortages, Indigenous land grabs and ecosystem destruction, new research finds. It warns that unless the … Continue reading →