This International Women’s Day we remember Berta Cáceres, Indigenous leader and environmental defender from the Lenca people of Honduras. Berta’s murder on March 2nd 2016 was directly associated with her campaign in the defence of the Gualcarque river, the site of a proposed dam in Lenca territory. Join Zennström Professor in Climate Change Leadership, Stefania […]

What do we (think we) mean by the "Anthropocene"? What are the politics behind climate change and climate (in)action? These are the sorts of questions we will be discussing during a short talk and Q & A with Uppsala University's fourth Zennström Professor in Climate Change Leadership during Uppsala climate week. The event will take […]

The Pufendorf IAS Advanced Study Group on Social Reproduction and Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) are hosting a feminist dialogue on Stefania Barca’s latest book Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a counter-hegemonic Anthropocene (Cambridge University Press). The dialogue will feature a book presentation by Stefania Barca followed by a discussion by Nancy Fraser […]

We say that humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn – we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance. Their wisdom is apparent in the way they live. They teach us by example. They´ve been on earth far longer than we have been, […]

CO2-BUDGET 2021 is a new conference that brings together municipalities, regions, researchers, climate engaged organizations and the public. The concept of carbon budgets are at the heart of the conference. Through seminars, workshops and panel discussions, we share – and create – knowledge about how the necessary reductions in emissions can be computed and achieved […]

(Photo credit: Felipe Milanez, 2010) (Para o português, veja abaixo) ** Registration for the zoom event in advance here ** On May 24, 2011, Maria do Espirito Santo and Zé Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva, nut collectors and members of the agroforestry project (Projeto Agro-Extractivista, PAE) of Praialta Piranheira in the Brazilian Amazon, were brutally murdered […]

Hunt out wild flowers, reach out, not to pick them but as an offer of intimacy. Stay open-hearted, don’t put your ear to the ground to listen for sap or soil, instead tune into the words written between the lines – visible in the way bluebell, pink campion, stitchwort offer up their secrets, have made […]