The foundational economy – education, health and social care, utilities, and retail – is crucial to ensure a sustainable future for our societies.

A review of the new edition - revised and expanded - of one of political ecology's recent classics by Tim Jackson.

In spite of the similarities between their constitutional and social welfare institutions, Brazil receives little consideration from the EU as a mediator between the global North and the global South. It is time for a re-think.

The coming upheaval in our ways of living and working will require us to live an ecological lifestyle based on new forms of democratic participation that enable us to collectively and comprehensively reshape our social and physical environment.

On 29 September 2013, Austria went to the polls. The results gave the Greens 12,4% of the vote, a plus of 2%.

The ‘Occupy movement’ is a successful example of a campaign that has caused social upheaval right at the heart of society.