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The fashion industry is the world's second most polluting industry after the oil industry.

Bill McKibben has shown us what it means to live within the truth of our struggle for human survival. Will a new generation find the courage to do the same?

We have not simply changed the climate; we have critically wounded a global life form and severely disrupted its biological rhythms.

The economic system is incompatible with the survival of life on Earth. It is time to design a new one.

On Feb. 27, hundreds of Indigenous Waorani elders, youth and leaders arrived in the city of Puyo, Ecuador. They left their homes deep in the Amazon rainforest to peacefully march through the streets, hold banners, sing songs and, most importantly, submit documents to the provincial Judicial Council to launch a lawsuit seeking to stop the government from auctioning off their ancestral lands in the Pastaza region to oil companies.

Some argue that GDP growth means an increase in investment in clean energy projects, and while that may be true, higher levels of GDP will not only lead to higher levels of clean investment, but also higher levels of dirty investment—and the majority of investment is dirty.

The quest for growth has risked the basic conditions for living an authentically human life.

There is an empirical contradiction in the Sustainable Development Goals between Goal 8 (GDP growth) and the ecological objectives of reducing resource use and preventing global warming over 2 degrees Celsius.

Capitalism is a system that relies on the constant production of artificial scarcity. This is the key mechanism of the growth imperative. Degrowth, by contrast, calls for abundance in order to render growth unnecessary.

Making capitalism just a bit greener will not succeed in halting climate change, it will only delay climate action further. We need to place people and the sustainability of the environment above profit.

The city is creating a network of walkable, mixed-use “superblocks.”

15 years after the invasion of Iraq, what are the costs?

The desire to mitigate pressure on ecosystems has led to the development of ecosystem valuation – but is it effective?

A discussion document for policymakers and civic leaders

Businesses should be liable for the harm they do. Polly Higgins has launched a push to make ecocide an international crime

The children on climate strike are right: their lives should not be sacrificed to satisfy our greed

Ad campaigns hide investment in a huge expansion of oil and gas extraction, says InfluenceMap

When politicians fail to look beyond the next election – or even the latest tweet – they are neglecting the rights of future generations, argues public philosopher Roman Krznaric.

We need to build an economy where everyone ­benefits from wealth ­creation and has the opportunity to get involved – and where the natural environment is a top priority.

This film lays out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth -- an economy where the goal is enough, not more.