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Green Wave showcases some of the best articles from the Green European Journal - Europe’s leading political ecology magazine offering green & progressive ideas and analysis. For the text version of the articles and printed editions go to greeneuropeanjournal.eu, or follow the journal on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at @GreenEUJournal.
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Russia’s war on Ukraine pushed the world into a food crisis - or that’s how it felt. But this was only the latest tipping point for a global food system already on the edge. Jennifer Kwao explains how the conflict in Ukraine affected people's access to food everywhere, and especially in the Global South, and why the problems go much deeper. Written by Jennifer Kwao.Read by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-untold-story-of-the-food-crisis/Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal
On this International Women's Day, we turn to Africa, where women have a long, rich, and active history of seeing their own liberation and the protection of nature as inseparable and forging ground-breaking campaigns at their intersection. From FOWA in Nigeria and Wangari Maathai in Kenya to today's generation of activists, listen to Anika Jane Dorothy and Lydia Ayame Hiraide on the movements that the rest of the world can be learning from. Written by Anika Jane Dorothy and Lydia Ayame Hiraide.Read by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/what-african-green-feminist-power-has-to-offer/ Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal
That infinite economic growth is simply not possible on a finite planet seems a truth that is increasingly hard to escape - in some circles. Yet governments continue to organise their countries around the idea that economic growth is good, necessary, and important. Is degrowth the vision that can lay out another way forward - and one that is more just and green? Jorge Pinto on The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism (Verso, 2022) and its compelling case for why all environmentalists and left-wingers should get behind degrowth.Written by Jorge Pinto.Read by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/is-degrowth-the-future/ Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal
Renewable energy cooperatives and/or communities are the focus of our attention this week, and specifically their spread - albeit slow - in Central and Eastern Europe. Tackling three urgent crises in one - climate change, rising energy prices, and the need to find alternatives to Russian gas - renewable energy co-ops are needed today more than ever, and the EU has committed to supporting their spread across Europe. But huge obstacles lie in their path.Seda Orhan from Climate Action Network (CAN) talks to members of pioneering cooperatives in Bulgaria, Poland and Romania about their vision and the way forward. Written by Seda Orhan.Read by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/powering-up-energy-communities-in-central-and-eastern-europe/ Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal
We’ve got a book review for you this week. Konrad Bleyer-Simon unpacks Road to Nowhere. Silicon Valley and the Future of Mobility by Paris Marx which sets out how the egoistic projects of tech billionaires such as Elon Musk have shaped our car-centred transport systems and what a vision centred around the needs of ordinary people would look like.Written by Konrad Bleyer-Simon.Read by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/why-the-transport-visions-of-tech-billionaires-are-a-dead-end/ Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal
In this episode, we zoom in on Italy again. Join us to unpack the September 2022 elections which led to Italy's most right-wing government since Mussolini. What underlies the rise in support for the party now leading the country: Brothers of Italy? What was missing in the appeals of left and progressive parties to Italian voters? Written by Thomas Simon Mattia.Read by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/why-were-italians-swayed-to-the-right-by-the-brothers-of-italy/ Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal
In this episode, we tackle one of the most important questions of the decade. With global disruption and crises set to become the norm, how should Green parties navigate this new age of shocks? How can these tensions, rather than destabilising us, teach us about working together to carve a better future? Join us to find out. This piece is from our newly-published winter issue: Priced Out: The Cost of Living in A Disrupted World, which helps us to understand the political trends and choices across Europe that got us into the cost of living crisis and to explore proposals and solutions. It's out now and available to read online and order straight to your door at www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu.Written by Robert Magowan.Read by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/a-climate-of-disruption/ Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal
Welcome back! In this episode, we focus on one of the most important issues facing many of us: the cost of living crisis. It's time to question how we got here, look into the social and political effects of the crisis, and explore alternative ways of organising our society.Hear from young people in Italy and experts who explain why under-35s in Italy are so acutely affected by precarity and unemployment and the failure of political parties across the spectrum to revive their hopes.This piece is from our newly-published winter issue: Priced Out: The Cost of Living in A Disrupted World, which helps us to understand the political trends and choices across Europe that got us into the cost of living crisis and explore proposals and solutions. It's out now and available to read online and order straight to your door at www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu.Written by Anna Tonolio.Read by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/no-country-for-young-people/ Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal
It's almost nine months since the start of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Rarely mentioned in coverage or analysis of the war is the ecological impact of it and how this is playing out today in Ukraine, one of the most heavily industrialised and polluted areas in the world. In this episode, we examine how war affects nature and public health in Ukraine for generations to come, and what the international community can do to mitigate this long-term damage.Written by Dmytro Averin, Freek van der Vet, Iryna Nikolaieva, Nickolai Denisov.Read by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-environmental-cost-of-the-war-in-ukraine/ Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal.
COP27 has just kicked off! Despite having official invitations to international climate summits, many young Global South organisers find their visa applications to European countries rejected, sometimes multiples times in a row. This episode looks at this under-explored exclusion which, if left unaddressed, undermines the legitimacy of international climate discussions. Written by Serag Heiba.Read by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/barred-from-the-climate-conversation/ Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal.
Welcome back! In this episode, we explore the concepts of citizenship and of nation states - two norms which are rarely questioned in Europe today - and how they are evolving in today's world. What do these shifts mean for the millions of people living and working abroad, especially in an era of climate breakdown, and how we can make sure the shift is for better and not worse?Written by Aleksandra Savanović.Read by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/after-modernity-citizenship-beyond-the-nation-stateFollow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal.
On 11 September, Sweden went to the polls to elect a new government. In this episode, we look into what the results might mean for the country, how Swedish politics has gradually shifted to the right and what happens next.Written by Ann-Cathrine JungarRead by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/swedish-elections-and-the-mainstreaming-of-the-far-right/Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal.
In this episode, Luiza Bialasiewicz explains why thinking pandemic geopolitics through the lens of 'health sovereignty' ignores the geographies of vulnerability that connect us all.Published in 29 November 2021Written by Luiza Bialasiewicz.Read by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-unhealthy-geopolitics-of-a-sovereign-europe/ Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal.
Welcome back! This summer has shown - once again - that extreme weather events like heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires are becoming more frequent and intense as a result of the climate crisis.In this episode, journalist Clare Taylor explores what's at stake and what we can do about it.Written by Clare Taylor.Read by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/adapt-or-else-what-the-latest-ipcc-report-means-for-europe-and-the-world/ Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal.
In this episode, we talk all about coal, oil, and gas. When it comes to keeping fossil fuels in the ground, COPs will only get us so far. Peter Newell outlines an alternative approach: A Fossil Fuel Non-Profileration Treaty. Written by Peter Newell.Read by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-road-to-a-fossil-fuel-non-proliferation-treaty This article is from our latest edition: Moving Targets: Geopolitics in a Warming World which examines how we can navigate an increasingly fractured geopolitical landscape with the future of the planet in the balance. Exploring issues such as climate leadership, the future of energy geopolitics, and the role of democracy and human rights in international relations, this edition asks how Greens and progressives can pick up the scattered seeds of a more just and sustainable world? It's out and available to read online and order in print at www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/subscribe-order.Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal.
We are back. In this episode, we explore how ecology could expand the EU's horizons through the Green Deal. For the European Union, the energy transition offers an economic, social and strategic direction for decades to come.Written by Lucile Schmid.Read by Seden Anlar.Edited by Seden Anlar.Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/will-ecology-expand-the-eus-horizons/ This article is from our latest edition: Moving Targets: Geopolitics in a Warming World which examines how we can navigate an increasingly fractured geopolitical landscape with the future of the planet in the balance. Exploring issues such as climate leadership, the future of energy geopolitics, and the role of democracy and human rights in international relations, this edition asks how Greens and progressives can pick up the scattered seeds of a more just and sustainable world? It's out and available to read online and order in print at www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/subscribe-order.Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal.
Despite the warnings, the invasion of Ukraine took the world by surprise. As Putin continues his brutal invasion of #Ukraine, journalist Richard Robert takes a much-needed look at how the long history of Russian imperialism is driving and shaping Putin’s war today. Written by Richard Robert.Read by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-return-of-the-brezhnev-doctrine/Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal.
We are back! In the first episode of the new year, we'll be going to Romania where over the past decades, there have been successive waves of protests that have had a defining impact on the country's recent history. So, we look at the path that has led Romania to the politics it has today and where the country's two main Green parties stand. Enjoy!Written by Raluca Besliu.Read by Julia Lagoutte.Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-romanian-protest-wave-a-path-to-a-new-political-eraFollow us on socials: @greeneujournal.Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal.
This week, we tell the story of how, for one Italian town, democracy is an ongoing struggle for environmental justice and self-determination. A story of democratic exclusion that began with the building of a petrochemical plant on the edge of the town by state-run chemical giant EniChem in the early 1970s.Hear more about the deep scars that have been left on the land and the town's inhabitants by cultural and industrial colonisation. Written by Federico Ambrosini and Sofia Cherici.Read by Gail Rego.Text version: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/promised-lands-in-manfredonia-environmental-justice-is-about-democracy/This article is from our brand-new edition: Democracy Ever After? Perspectives on Power and Representation which examines the struggle over democracy and representation in Europe today. It's out now and available to read online and order in print at www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/. For the first time, you can subscribe to receive future print editions too.
In this episode, we are going to Finland. For over a century, Finland has pioneered women’s representation in politics. But discrimination still casts a long shadow over the country.What can Finland, possibly the most gender-equal country in the world but one that still has many problems, teach us about the long journey from representation to equality?Written by Silja Kudel.Read by Gail Rego.Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/feminist-finland-from-representation-to-equality/This article is from our brand-new edition: Democracy Ever After? Perspectives on Power and Representation which examines the struggle over democracy and representation in Europe today. It's out now and available to read online and order in print at www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/. For the first time, you can subscribe to receive future print editions too.
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