Time to go clubbing
The Mint editor, Henry Leveson-Gower, describes how joining the club could raise the tempo of environmental regeneration. Earlier this year, a group of farmers who had formed under the banner …
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Common grievance
Guy Standing shares with The Mint his uncommon understanding of a fundamental political issue that pervades history to the present day. When Guy Standing speaks about the commons, he doesn’t …
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Trump risks a ‘gold rush’ on the high seas
The United States has neither moral nor legal right to minerals found in the deep ocean. If it tries to take them, others will too. Guy Standing writes. Among the …
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From Reserves to Repression
Frances Coppola examines how a biblical tale of famine, taxation, and power reveals the roots of economic shock tactics and the perilous slide into repression. Forget economic textbooks. Religion is …
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The nurture nature argument
Samantha Power directs the think-and-do tank, the BioFi Project, which seeks to reimagine how capital flows can support place-based biocultural regeneration. The Mint spoke with Power about her critique of …
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Fear economy
Lynne Davis argues that only solidarity can break its grip. On my worldly adventures – perhaps born more of curiosity than any grand trends – I am meeting more and …
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All together now
Dil Green identifies what’s needed for commoning to keep the beat. Commons is a term which gets bandied about – sometimes very loosely, on other occasions rather specifically. I try …
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A few too many?
Is it time to call time on pub closures in the UK? J Mark Dodds warns that we are losing more than our place at the bar. Once the heart …
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Bioeconomically speaking
Sofia Casas warns of another shade of greenwash. With COP-30 approaching this November in Belém – in the heart of the Amazon – the term “bioeconomy” has become a powerful …
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Waves of old ways
David Barkin looks at the swell of ancestral community measures across the Global South to address climate change issues. On a cool evening in Oaxaca, Mexico, the town’s plaza fills …
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