Drawing on the experience of the Alaskan oil fund, this interview unpicks the links between basic income and ecological sustainability.

The Green European Journal asked experts, activists, and politicians from around Europe about the politics of basic income where they are.

Jorge Pinto is a research associate at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society (University of Minho, Portugal) and co-founder of the Portuguese party LIVRE.

In Europe and beyond, municipalism, rooted in republicanism and enshrined in an ‘Order of Barcelona’ could help fight the ‘inertia of the nation-state’.