Sustainability

Former Minister of Education Lorenzo Fioramonti recounts his experience of trying to reform Italian education policy to put ecology at the heart of learning.

Maja Göpel on how education, imagination, and ideas can spark wider societal change.

Beyond teaching the facts of our current trajectory, environmental education must harness young people’s capacity for change and to adapt.

Rosanna Harvey-Crawford examines local resilience and community projects in rural Scotland.

As Brussels prepares to reform its economy on the basis of the doughnut model, Amsterdam is already taking the leap with its circular economy strategy.

We sat down with Molly Scott Cato, Green MEP and economist, to discuss the EU’s sustainable finance package, alternatives to the current banking model and the role of speculation in Brexit.

An interview on daring to dream and designing economics to regenerate life and community, to thrive rather than to grow.

Public momentum to tackle plastic waste is strong in the UK, but political barriers stall further progress.

Now the economy has overshot key ecological limits, more sustainable social protection systems that do not depend on environmentally destructive forms of work must be found.

Are smart techno-managerial solutions the perfect alibi for resource extraction and inequality in our cities? We talked to author and academic Maria Kaika about the way that green technology so-called solutions are sometimes anything but, and can displace real action.