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• Collaborative Finance (CoFi): rethinking finance for the commons, growingcommons.substack.com (Jun 07, 2026, Earth) — What finance looks like when communities build and govern it themselves, Michel Rauchs
• Radical change can lead to a fairer and greener world, says new report, positive.news (Jun 04, 2026, Earth) — A major new study argues that rising living standards, shorter working hours and a liveable climate are not competing dreams, but parts of the same future – if the world is willing to tackle extreme inequality
• Data Centres Need a Social License to Operate, demnext.substack.com (May 13, 2026, Earth) — How lessons from citizens' assemblies are highly relevant for the future of AI infrastructure and data centres, Another Democratic Future and Claudia Chwalisz
• How to build cities for wildlife, not just people – new research, theconversation.com (May 06, 2026, Earth)
• “The crisis of democratic legitimacy is a design problem—and better alternatives already exist” [Ecocivilization], Daily Alternative (Apr 27, 2026, Earth)
• Toward a Common Grammar for Finance and Mutual Aid, willruddick.substack.com (Apr 21, 2026, Earth)
• Arriving at commoning: it's everywhere, but how can we get it right?, growingcommons.substack.com (Apr 19, 2026, Earth)
• Why Participation Is The Game Changer, Daily Alternative (Apr 12, 2026, Earth)
• Foraging commons in action, growingcommons.substack.com (Apr 08, 2026, Earth)
• A new economic superpower could spark a global retreat from fossil fuels, theguardian.com (Apr 07, 2026, Earth)
• What are the health impacts of sea-level rise, and who should pay?, theguardian.com (Apr 07, 2026, Earth)
• The generosity experiment, positive.news (Apr 02, 2026, Earth)
• Amid an energy crisis, the renewables juggernaut gathers pace, positive.news (Mar 25, 2026, Earth) — The amount of solar installed worldwide doubled between 2022 and 2024 alone.
• We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Mar 25, 2026, UK; Earth) — The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is
• Which climate policies actually make a difference? Our new analysis has the answer, theconversation.com (Mar 09, 2026, Earth)
• Talking about the weather - when the weather really matters - in communities and classrooms [Climate Majority Project and others], Daily Alternative (Mar 06, 2026, Earth)
• “Love did not eliminate politics; it made it sustainable.” Hélène Landemore on the qualities of citizen rule, over that of politicians, Daily Alternative (Feb 22, 2026, Earth)
• “Civilizational transitions require both material infrastructure and shared imagination. People need to envision alternatives before they’ll invest energy building them”. Us, on cosmo-localism, Daily Alternative (Feb 19, 2026, Earth)
• ‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics, theguardian.com (Feb 19, 2026, Earth)
• Air pollution may directly contribute to Alzheimer’s disease – new study, theconversation.com (Feb 17, 2026, Earth)
• A commoners' manifesto: 24 articles on how commons can change the world, Dave Darby, growingcommons.substack.com (Feb 15, 2026, Earth)
• We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps, Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis, theguardian.com (Feb 12, 2026, Earth) — Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp
• Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say, theguardian.com (Feb 11, 2026, Earth) — Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
• This Isn’t a Dating App, substack.com (Feb 09, 2026, Earth) — A Story, Will Ruddick
• From environmental threat to international crime: why ecocide is now a global security issue, econews.global (Feb 05, 2026, Earth)
• Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn, theguardian.com (Feb 05, 2026, Earth) — Recovery would be far harder than after the 2008 financial crash, they said, as “we can’t bail out the Earth like we did the banks”.
• Fossil fuel firms may have to pay for climate damage under proposed UN tax, theguardian.com (Feb 01, 2026, Earth)
• Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate, e360.yale.edu (Jan 28, 2026, Earth) — With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice sheets to the death of the Amazon rainforest — that could not be reversed. By Fred Pearce
• Small-scale farmers produce more of the rich world’s food than previously thought – new study, theconversation.com (Jan 28, 2026, Earth)
• New tools for growing the commons, part 4: what life in a commons town might be like, Dave Darby, growingcommons.substack.com (Jan 25, 2026, Earth)
• Adopting low-cost ‘healthy’ diets could cut food emissions by one-third, carbonbrief.org (Jan 21, 2026, Earth)
• World Enters “Era of Global Water Bankruptcy” UN Scientists Formally Define New Post-Crisis Reality for Billions, unu.edu (Jan 20, 2026, Earth)
• As the UN General Assembly Turns 80, Can Ordinary Citizens Change How the World Is Governed?, desmog.com (Jan 19, 2026, Earth) — Democratic innovation as a pathway for revitalising global climate action.
• Why restoring nature can work so much more effectively when led by local people, theconversation.com (Jan 15, 2026, Earth)
• Growing up alongside deadly fires inspired me to study them – and fight flames with swarms of drones, theconversation.com (Jan 15, 2026, Earth)
• Wikipedia at 25: can its original ideals survive in the age of AI?, theconversation.com (Jan 14, 2026, Earth)
• Surprising number of foods contain microplastics. Here’s how to reduce the amount you consume, theconversation.com (Jan 07, 2026, Earth)
• The biggest climate migration problem may be that there’s not enough of it, grist.org (Jan 05, 2026, Earth)