Amid state and national pressures to cultivate palm oil, farmers are finding novel ways to preserve local food sovereignty.
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Sharlene Gandhi is a journalist working at the intersection of business and environmental sustainability. She currently works as a reporter at Courier Media, a publication focused on small business, and has been published by the likes of gal-dem, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, AIGA Eye on Design and the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy. She is also a speaker on the topic, and an aspiring data designer.
Why one group of scholar-activists is dedicating itself to the study of precarious housing
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shado has launched a book club to bring people together to explore some of the brilliant authors using storytelling for social justice. Next session: Monday 27th June 6.30pm BST The Doctor and the Saint by Arundhati Roy
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When I first hop on a Zoom call with adrienne maree brown – late afternoon their time, late night mine – I am brimming with energy. I’ve just finished reading their second book, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, and I’m set for a lively, animated discussion about eroticism,...
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When I call Leah Penniman on a Friday afternoon, she is walking around her farmland in Grafton, New York. “We use Afro-Indigenous, precolonial, land-based agricultural techniques”, she explains as she walks around her crops. “There are shrubs and berries planted around the apple trees, next to twenty varieties of medicinal...
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Outside of the South Asian community and diaspora, Navratri – Nav meaning nine, and Ratri meaning night – is one of the lesser known Hindu festivals. While the exact date is determined by the Hindu calendar, it tends to fall between September and October. For many, it’s the crown jewel...
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When you first dip your toes into the waters of the climate justice movement, you’re immediately struck by how complex the problem is. It’s not just global warming, fossil fuels and melting ice caps, as a science-based approach would have you believe. It touches everything from fair and equitable pay...
When it comes to talking about transformative change that can decelerate – or, dare I say, resolve – the climate crisis, we often get stuck thinking about what we could achieve, failing also to think about some of the barriers that hold us back. Physical, social, cultural, psychological or economic,...
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Nationally-imposed lockdowns in light of the coronavirus have resulted in a close-to-complete standstill of trade. Economists worry about the knock-on effects in years to come, on global unemployment, markets and currency values. The crisis perhaps proves the unsustainability of national GDP as a measure of success and growth. But local...
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