Yesterday the UK Government approved plans to build a third runway at Heathrow airport, and the Young Greens of England & Wales are standing strong and transparently against this decision. We are being sold the myth that a third runway is a necessary feature of growth in our country, but like with so many of…
Category: Economy
Basic Income and User-Centered Design
In Finland, the discussion around basic income has become serious during the last year, as Prime Minister Juha Sipilä’s government has an explicit intention to implement a basic income experiment during its period of rule. If the experiment will be implemented successfully, it can mark the way for using social experiments as a part of…
Who Are the Green Party Leadership Candidates?
Voting is now open for the election of the Summer. And no, it’s not for the next Labour leader. The Greens are currently deciding who will take over from Natalie Bennett after two terms in office. After a month of – it has to be said, relatively low-profile – campaigning, the 65,000-odd Green Party members…
The Limits of the Finnish Basic Income Experiment
The Minister of Social Affairs Hanna Mäntylä and researcher Ville-Veikko Pulkka answer questions about the situation of the Finnish Basic Income Experiment. The article also discusses what are the aims of the experiment, and what its success would mean for basic income. The hype about the Finnish Basic Income experiment sometimes frustrates researchers who are…
Universal Basic Income: the North American Experiments
The notion of a universal basic income has been debated for decades in political, policy and academic circles. Proponents have ranged from street-activists to ivory tower academics, and have emerged from across the political spectrum. At the moment, the city Utrecht in the Netherlands is enrolling a new empirical trial and Finland is developing their…
World Economic Forum: Are the leaders working for us?
Time to rethink our political and economic system I am an environmentalist, but this label has never sat well with me. The term “environmentalist” is of limited use and those who worship at the altar of limitless growth struggle to see past the label – as if being “green” was no more than a fashion…
An ethical call for degrowth
The attitude that capitalism gives rise to, dehumanises us because it turns us into competitive animals. We fail to realise that capitalism is an inherently exploitative system, where most of the power will always reside in the hands of the rich. But there is a way around this… Content warning: this might read like a…
Neoliberalzation of Nature and COP21
Dominant neoliberal discourse permeates contemporary climate governance. COP21 is not enough, we need an economic forum for a real change. In order to stop following the illusion of a Climate Change mitigation and in order to create a real change with the aim to achieve a low-carbon society we should change our economic view….
Nepalese Youth Perspectives on Elements of Globalization
A debate is currently ongoing among activists, academics and politicians on the future assumption of the world as conceptualized by many international experts including international relations expert Mr. Parag Khanna. Three dimensions are being eyed upon: Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and Geotechnology. Under globalization, technologies have made more participatory approach of development. South to south cooperation is…
Sri Lanka forces Coca-Cola to stop production
The Central Environmental authority of Sri Lanka has cancelled the environmental license to Coca Cola Sri Lanka to operate in the country. This unprecedented move comes as a result of a devastating oil leak from an underground pipe in a Coca Cola production facility close to Colombo. The National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWDB)…