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- 'We are in danger' - Spanish anti-tourism spills into winter season, BBC News (Oct 26, 2024)
- Could a £2-a-day basic income be the key to protecting rainforests?, theguardian.com (Aug 22, 2024)
- Calling all Local Organisers: Organise a Global Donut Days event!, doughnuteconomics.org (Aug 01, 2024) — Join Global Donut Days 6 to 9 November by organising a local event where you are
- Green economy could generate 3.3m jobs across Africa by 2030 – report, theguardian.com (Jul 26, 2024)
- A ‘green new deal’ is Canada’s best hope of achieving a just carbon-zero transition, theconversation.com (Jul 21, 2024)
- The new UK govt aims for "growth, growth, growth" to solve all problems. The planet will have something to say about that, suggests James Meadway, Daily Alternative (Jul 19, 2024)
- Money for nothing: is universal basic income about to transform society?, theguardian.com (Jul 14, 2024)
- The powerful municipalism operating in Naples and Barcelona has concrete lessons for community power in the UK, Daily Alternative (Mar 19, 2024)
- Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2024)
- Limitarianism: why we need to put a cap on the super-rich, theguardian.com (Jan 21, 2024)
- How fig trees could revolutionise reforestation and tourism in Borneo, chinadialogue.net (Jan 19, 2024)
2023[edit | edit source]
- How the Netherlands built a thriving circular economy, theprogressplaybook.com (Dec 13, 2023)
- On a conference visit to Shanghai, John Thackara brings back a rich harvest of eco-civilisational practice, The Daily Alternative (Nov 27, 2023)
- Kuza Nia: Meeting your purpose, neighbourhooddemocracy.org (Oct 13, 2023)
- Doughnut Economics Takes Hold in Nanaimo, B.C., theenergymix.com (Jul 30, 2023)
- “If we design well, we design for shared aliveness”. Speaking from China, John Thackara lays out an economy defined by care, The Daily Alternative (Jul 28, 2023)
- We know that cosmolocalism is a way of empowering communities. But it's also the seeds of a new (and needed) economic system, The Daily Alternative (Jul 18, 2023)
- How refugees are helping Amsterdam become one of the first circular cities, positive.news (Jul 18, 2023)
- Universal basic income is winning the argument against sceptics, and mobilising across the world, The Daily Alternative (Jul 15, 2023)
- How a group of Peruvian coffee farmers are thriving despite the odds, positive.news (Jul 12, 2023)
- A global ‘conservation basic income’ might cost trillions – but it’s still a shrewd investment, The Conversation (May 18, 2023)
- A Simple Fix Lifts Single Moms Out of Poverty in India’s Slums, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 12, 2023)
- The surprisingly simple solution to poverty that is changing lives, Positive News (Mar 03, 2023)
2022[edit | edit source]
- Its leaders anticipating a coming time of floods and fires, the Chinese eco-state is being built, shaping the rest of our century, The Daily Alternative (Oct 24, 2022)
- "Moins de biens, plus de liens!" ("Fewer things, more relations!") The Japanese best-selling sensation that promotes a degrowth utopia, The Daily Alternative (Sep 12, 2022)
- From Kerala via Argentina to Bologna, platform cooperatives are thriving (and providing solid pathways to the good life), The Daily Alternative (Jun 01, 2022)
- Net zero by 2050 will hit a major timing problem technology can’t solve. We need to talk about cutting consumption, The Daily Alternative (Apr 25, 2022)
- If you want your place to practice doughnut economics, you can now apply "the four lenses" to any situation, The Daily Alternative (Apr 22, 2022)
- Chicago set to launch big guaranteed income pilot, fastcompany.com (Feb 24, 2022)
2021[edit | edit source]
- Barcelona City Council launches a Doughnut Portrait project to guide action towards a safe and just future for the city, doughnuteconomics.org (Aug 02, 2021)
- Politicians from across world call for ‘global green deal’ to tackle climate crisis, Jul 19...theguardian.com
- Guaranteed Income Increases Employment, Improves Financial and Physical Health, Mar 3...Press release, stocktondemonstration.org
- How Brussels residents are putting the ideas of Doughnut Economics into practice, doughnuteconomics.org (Jan 26, 2021)
- “Doughnut Economic” model arrives in California, Jan 26...shareable.net
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