If you’ve ever played Monopoly, you know how the game is designed: except unwise choices made, the player who is close to winning keeps extracting money from the other players who are gradually falling into debt.

The world looks for solutions to its current crisis, but in the discussions I observe we rarely put into question...

The mindset behind geoengineering stands in sharp contrast to an emerging ecological, systems approach taking shape in the form of regenerative agriculture. More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.

John Ashton was the UK Government lead negotiator in global climate talks for six years. He just gave this speech to an energy industry conference in Paris. He addressed it to Ben van Beurden, CEO of Shell, urging him and his industry to heed the global crisis of climate change.

I used to work in the aid business. For about ten years. I loved it for most of that time. But I gradually lost faith with the basic premise; that aid and charity are anything like solutions to all the problems the big aid agencies say they want to solve:...

There is a real push going on right now to move the debate about climate change into a “solutions” space. Be it Naomi Kleins’ Beautiful solutions initiative, the debate triggered by the Rockefeller Foundation’s decision to divest from fossil fuels, or that lots of people are talking solutions.

In his interview with Evan Davis on BBC’s Newsnight, Russell Brand makes a few points about the urgent need for systematic change. Check out the entire interview here.