Professor Dennis Meadows did say this almost forty years ago as a co-author of the iconic The Limits to Growth, along with the late Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers and William H. Behrens III. The ...

May 2023 — With the launch of the new United Nations University (UNU) global website platform, Our World has been integrated into the UNU website and will shift to become a curated collection of UNU's ...

After turning to self-government to fight illegal logging by narco-traffickers, a small town in Mexico is celebrating 4 years of communal decision-making.

What is good, clean and fair, and doesn’t cost the Earth? The answer is ‘Slow Food’, according to a growing number of people worldwide. The Slow Food movement originated in Italy in 1989 as a response ...

A new report assesses environmental impacts of food systems and indicates dietary changes are needed if we want to hedge against damages.

Transition's Rob Hopkins reviews a recent book and emphatically counters the author's contention that there is a “moral case” for fossil fuel use.

Offering uses that range from energy and construction to medicine, the coconut palm has been sustaining communities for thousands of years.

Ecological economist Herman Daly explains how because the macro-economy is part of the larger natural economy growth in GDP can be uneconomic.

Already stateless and marginalised, Rohingya refugee and migrant women are further exposed to sexual and gender-based violence as they flee Myanmar.

Let’s generate electricity by walking! by Luis Patron is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Mangjing Village's tea gardens show that traditional cultivation of tea can both support local livelihoods and conserve biodiversity.

Three million Syrian children are not in school because of the conflict, and this loss of access to education puts the well-being of Syrian girls at risk.