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“(We need) the voices of those who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of… Read More

Earlier this month, our friend Ati Viviam Villafaña, an Arhuaca youth environmental activist, gave this talk sharing the cosmovisions of the Arhuaco People of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta,… Read More

Many wealthy nations’ green transition strategies rely on a model characterised by industrial-scale extraction of finite metal and mineral reserves, while leaving commodity production and consumption unchecked, writes Tommy Greene… Read More

The eyes of the world are on the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow. We are all looking for signs of hope. But not everyone is looking in the same place. For… Read More

On the Global Day Against Mega Mining, Gaia’s ‘Beyond Extractivism’ Programme lead, Hannibal, reflects on a visit to the Philippines in 2015 and why we can’t mine our way out… Read More

Wednesday 2nd June 2021 A global coalition of 180+ community platforms, human rights and environmental organisations and academics from 36 nations is calling on the EU to abandon its plans… Read More

Gaia’s Hannibal Rhoades and Andy Whitmore of London Mining Network explore why Green New Deals and post-Covid recovery packages must back a holistic, material transition towards a circular society, not… Read More

How are European communities already asserting their ‘Right to Say No’ to mining and other extractive projects, from the grassroots up? How can the Right to Say No be materially… Read More

Dear Friends,  We hope this finds you and your loved ones healthy and in good spirits. Wherever we live, as we approach the equinox the seasons are turning. These liminal, in-between times have traditionally been moments… Read More

When? 29th September. 3pm GMT/UTC. Where? Online Register now (required): https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IS1h72zgTeKV2fRXlFfy2Q Europe faces a massive increase in mining in the years to come, as the EU and national governments seek to… Read More