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2025
Five ways to make the ocean economy more sustainable and just, theconversation.com (Nov 19, 2025) - ‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution, theguardian.com (Nov 14, 2025) — From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
- Co-ops looking to change the world, town by town, thenews.coop (Nov 03, 2025)
- International team calls for a people-first approach to achieving humanitarian, climate, and biodiversity goals, drawdown.org (Oct 21, 2025)
- Ireland’s basic income scheme for artists points at how governments could help sectors in crisis, theconversation.com (Oct 17, 2025)
- Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist, theguardian.com (Oct 13, 2025) — Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction
- “The ecological economy is now”: John Thackera accepts the Frontier Design Prize in Shanghai, Daily Alternative (Oct 10, 2025)
- Filipino government wants co-ops to help meet electrification target, thenews.coop (Aug 18, 2025)
- Lagos state government turns to co-ops to drive inclusive economy, thenews.coop (Aug 12, 2025)
- ‘It feels cool to be a cog in change’: how doughnut economics is reshaping a Swedish town, theguardian.com (Jul 17, 2025)
- Co-operative business: a recipe for resilience in turbulent times, positive.news (Jun 23, 2025) — Approximately 3m co-ops with an astonishing 1.2bn members, more than an eighth of the world’s population, exist internationally
- The Economic Consequences of Ignoring Climate Change, insideclimatenews.org (May 30, 2025)
- Growing Community Wealth with Sarafu.Network: My Story, grassecon.substack.com (May 25, 2025)
- How a media co-op forged its own path in Argentina, thenews.coop (May 15, 2025)
- La Sembra: Values-led communication agency in Catalonia, thenews.coop (May 15, 2025)
- Women Plumbers in Jordan Are Breaking Taboos, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 28, 2025)
- Co-ops and resistance in Rojava, thenews.coop (Apr 26, 2025)
- Indonesian government plans network of village co-ops to tackle poverty, thenews.coop (Apr 19, 2025) — Ministers plan up to 80,000 rural co-ops offering financial services, medical facilities, and farm logistics, storage and distribution
- French shipping co-op orders pioneering sail-powered boxship, thenews.coop (Apr 11, 2025) — “This citizen-led initiative empowers all stakeholders to take part in building a low-carbon, human- and environment-centred maritime transport system.”
- Mondragon as the new City-State—this cooperative could be its own country [The Elysian], Daily Alternative (Feb 04, 2025)
- What Ghana’s small businesses can teach the world about becoming more sustainable, theconversation.com (Jan 06, 2025)
2024
- The Serviceberry: this Indigenous understanding of nature can help us rethink economics, theconversation.com (Nov 18, 2024)
- We need stories, characters, mythologies to firm up our resolve to tackle climate catastrophe. Swarm Dynamics are animating these, for NGOs and others, Daily Alternative (Oct 28, 2024)
- 'We are in danger' - Spanish anti-tourism spills into winter season, BBC News (Oct 26, 2024)
- Could a £2-a-day basic income be the key to protecting rainforests?, theguardian.com (Aug 22, 2024)
- Calling all Local Organisers: Organise a Global Donut Days event!, doughnuteconomics.org (Aug 01, 2024) — Join Global Donut Days 6 to 9 November by organising a local event where you are
- Green economy could generate 3.3m jobs across Africa by 2030 – report, theguardian.com (Jul 26, 2024)
- A ‘green new deal’ is Canada’s best hope of achieving a just carbon-zero transition, theconversation.com (Jul 21, 2024)
- The new UK govt aims for "growth, growth, growth" to solve all problems. The planet will have something to say about that, suggests James Meadway, Daily Alternative (Jul 19, 2024)
- Money for nothing: is universal basic income about to transform society?, theguardian.com (Jul 14, 2024)
- The powerful municipalism operating in Naples and Barcelona has concrete lessons for community power in the UK, Daily Alternative (Mar 19, 2024)
- Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2024)
- Limitarianism: why we need to put a cap on the super-rich, theguardian.com (Jan 21, 2024)
- How fig trees could revolutionise reforestation and tourism in Borneo, chinadialogue.net (Jan 19, 2024)
2023
- How the Netherlands built a thriving circular economy, theprogressplaybook.com (Dec 13, 2023)
- On a conference visit to Shanghai, John Thackara brings back a rich harvest of eco-civilisational practice, The Daily Alternative (Nov 27, 2023)
- Kuza Nia: Meeting your purpose, neighbourhooddemocracy.org (Oct 13, 2023)
- Doughnut Economics Takes Hold in Nanaimo, B.C., theenergymix.com (Jul 30, 2023)
- “If we design well, we design for shared aliveness”. Speaking from China, John Thackara lays out an economy defined by care, The Daily Alternative (Jul 28, 2023)
- How refugees are helping Amsterdam become one of the first circular cities, positive.news (Jul 18, 2023)
- We know that cosmolocalism is a way of empowering communities. But it's also the seeds of a new (and needed) economic system, The Daily Alternative (Jul 18, 2023)
- Universal basic income is winning the argument against sceptics, and mobilising across the world, The Daily Alternative (Jul 15, 2023)
- How a group of Peruvian coffee farmers are thriving despite the odds, positive.news (Jul 12, 2023)
- A global ‘conservation basic income’ might cost trillions – but it’s still a shrewd investment, The Conversation (May 18, 2023)
- A Simple Fix Lifts Single Moms Out of Poverty in India’s Slums, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 12, 2023)
- The surprisingly simple solution to poverty that is changing lives, Positive News (Mar 03, 2023)
2022
- Its leaders anticipating a coming time of floods and fires, the Chinese eco-state is being built, shaping the rest of our century, The Daily Alternative (Oct 24, 2022)
- "Moins de biens, plus de liens!" ("Fewer things, more relations!") The Japanese best-selling sensation that promotes a degrowth utopia, The Daily Alternative (Sep 12, 2022)
- From Kerala via Argentina to Bologna, platform cooperatives are thriving (and providing solid pathways to the good life), The Daily Alternative (Jun 01, 2022)
- Net zero by 2050 will hit a major timing problem technology can’t solve. We need to talk about cutting consumption, The Daily Alternative (Apr 25, 2022)
- If you want your place to practice doughnut economics, you can now apply "the four lenses" to any situation, The Daily Alternative (Apr 22, 2022)
- Chicago set to launch big guaranteed income pilot, fastcompany.com (Feb 24, 2022)
2021
- Barcelona City Council launches a Doughnut Portrait project to guide action towards a safe and just future for the city, doughnuteconomics.org (Aug 02, 2021)
- Politicians from across world call for ‘global green deal’ to tackle climate crisis, Jul 19...theguardian.com
- Guaranteed Income Increases Employment, Improves Financial and Physical Health, Mar 3...Press release, stocktondemonstration.org
- How Brussels residents are putting the ideas of Doughnut Economics into practice, doughnuteconomics.org (Jan 26, 2021)
- “Doughnut Economic” model arrives in California, Jan 26...shareable.net
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