Green Wave Podcast

The Green Wave podcast, showcasing in audio a selection of articles from the Green European Journal.

Covering progressive politics and green ideas from a range of perspectives from across Europe and beyond. Available for you to listen wherever and whenever you want.

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26.10.2023
Green Housing Threatens Affordability. But It Doesn’t Have To

Housing is the focus in this episode - something we all need but which is increasingly expensive and in short supply, due in large part to the financialisation of the housing market. Meanwhile some renovations to make housing greener end up making rent more costly for those who can least afford it. What’s the solution? Julieta Perucca explains.

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28.09.2023
Slovak elections: Who Is to Blame for Robert Fico’s Return?

Slovak voters head to the polls on the 30th September for early parliamentary elections. One of the winners looks set to be former Prime Minister Robert Fico - forced out after the 2018 murder of an investigative journalist - and now helped along by alt-right and pro-Kremlin narratives.

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28.09.2023
Young Activism, Old Politics: Italy’s Divided Climate Movement

Direct action environmental protestors and Italy's tumultuous Green parties are not always on the same wavelength - what lies at the heart of this divide, and what can be done?

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28.09.2023
Serbia’s Lithium: Sacrifice Zones or Opportunity for Europe’s Peripheries?

Lithium is crucial for the green transition and Serbia’s reserves of this lightest of metals are coveted. But with a proposed mine catalysing the largest environmental protests in Serbian history, local communities are asking, “Whose green transition”?

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28.09.2023
The Cities Feeling the Heat

Rising temperatures made European cities increasingly unliveable in the summer and where you live and what you earn affects how you experience this.

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