Whenever you are in doubt, recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man. Gandhi

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo

True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice. Martin Luther King, Jr.

. . . for with freedom come responsibilities. Nelson Mandela

Theme: Consumption patterns

Territorial Representation ¤ Sustainable development goals ¤ Transports and communications ¤ Adaptation ¤ Agendas and roadmaps ¤ Agribusiness ¤ Agriculture ¤ Agroecology ¤ Alter-globalization ¤ Alterity ¤ Anarchism ¤ Arms industry ¤ Autocracy ¤ Autonomy ¤ Banks ¤ Basic needs ¤ Biodiversity ¤ Blue helmets ¤ Capitalism ¤ Cinema ¤ Cities ¤ Citizen movements ¤ Citizen participation ¤ Citizenship ¤ Civil disobedience ¤ Civilizational paradigms ¤ Climate changes ¤ Climate refugees ¤ Coercion ¤ Collegial governance ¤ Common Agenda ¤ Common but differentiated responsibilities ¤ Commons ¤ Complexity ¤ Conflict resolution ¤ Conformism ¤ Constitutional process ¤ Construction of narratives ¤ Consumption patterns ¤ Control of the market ¤ Cooperation ¤ Cooperative ¤ Corporate social responsibility ¤ Corporations ¤ Cosmopolitanism ¤ Cross-cultural relations ¤ Decent work ¤ Decentralization ¤ Degrowth ¤ Democratic globalization ¤ Democratization ¤ Diplomacy ¤ Direct democracy ¤ Disarmament ¤ Disaster management ¤ Discourse analysis ¤ Ecnomic diversity ¤ Eco-solidarity economy ¤ Ecological economics ¤ Economic globalization ¤ Economic justice ¤ Education ¤ Efficiency ¤ Electoral democracy ¤ Emancipation ¤ Empire ¤ Empowerment ¤ Energy governance ¤ Energy ¤ Environmental governance ¤ Equal dignity ¤ Equality ¤ ESC rights ¤ Ethics ¤ Ethics ¤ Evolution of the role of the state ¤ Extractivism ¤ Extraterritorial obligations ¤ Fighting poverty and inequalities ¤ Financial crisis ¤ Financial governance ¤ Financing the transition ¤ Fist nations ¤ Food security ¤ Food sovereignty ¤ food ¤ Forests ¤ Freedom of expression ¤ Friendship ¤ Future generations ¤ G8 + G20 ¤ Gender relations ¤ Global action ¤ Global civil society ¤ Global de facto powers ¤ Global democracy ¤ Global ethics ¤ Global finance ¤ Global identity ¤ Global knowledge ¤ Global law ¤ Global mobilization ¤ Global programme ¤ Global taxes ¤ Glocalization ¤ Green economy ¤ Health governance ¤ Health ¤ Health ¤ Horizontal relations ¤ Human responsibilities ¤ Human rights ¤ Human security ¤ Humanity-biosphere relationship ¤ Humankind ¤ Hunger ¤ Imperialism ¤ Indexes ¤ Indignados ¤ Individual commitment ¤ Information and Communication Technology ¤ Institutional Cooperation ¤ Institutional coordination ¤ Intellectual property ¤ Interdependence ¤ International financial institutions ¤ International institutions ¤ International Law ¤ International trade ¤ Internet Governance ¤ Justice ¤ Knowledge society ¤ Land grabbing ¤ Land management ¤ Land rights ¤ Law ¤ Legal infrastructure ¤ Legitimacy ¤ Living well ¤ Local development ¤ Low-carbon economy ¤ Market economy ¤ Media culture ¤ Media ¤ Media ¤ Meetings ¤ Migrations ¤ Military expenditure ¤ Millennium Development Goals ¤ Minority ¤ Mitigation ¤ Mobilization ¤ Money ¤ Multi-stakeholder processes ¤ Multidimensional crisis ¤ Multilateral agreement ¤ Multilateralism ¤ Natural resources ¤ Negotiation processes ¤ Neoliberalism ¤ New institutions ¤ Newly advanced economies ¤ Non-state actors ¤ North-South relations ¤ Nuclear ¤ Outer space ¤ Pachamama ¤ Pandemy ¤ Peace building ¤ Pensions ¤ Peoples’ assemblies ¤ Perspectives and scenarios ¤ Perspectives and scenarios ¤ Player networking ¤ Political innovation ¤ Polyarchy ¤ Power relations ¤ Precautionary principle ¤ Privatization ¤ Production sectors ¤ Productivism ¤ Property ¤ Psychology of leadership ¤ Public goods ¤ Public services ¤ Publiic policies ¤ Quality education ¤ Racism ¤ Rapid intervention force ¤ Redistribution ¤ Reducing emissions ¤ Reform of the UN ¤ Refugees ¤ Regional institutions ¤ Regional integration ¤ Religions ¤ Relocalization ¤ Responsibility to protect ¤ Responsibility ¤ Responsible science ¤ Ressentiment ¤ Right to food ¤ Right to housing ¤ Right to information ¤ Rights ¤ Rio+20 ¤ Risk management ¤ Role of regions ¤ Role of the armies ¤ Role of the experts ¤ Rural area ¤ Rural world ¤ Science and citizenship ¤ Science ¤ Self-organisation ¤ Sharing economy ¤ Small-scale farming ¤ Social and economic policies ¤ Social contract, charter ¤ Social innovation ¤ Social movements ¤ Social organisation ¤ Sociocultural diversity ¤ Solidarity patterns ¤ Solidarity ¤ Sovereignty ¤ Sovereignty ¤ Spirituality ¤ Sports ¤ Standards ¤ Strategy of chaos ¤ Subsidiarity ¤ Sustainable City ¤ Sustainable society ¤ System’s relevance ¤ Taxes ¤ Territorial management ¤ Territorial scales ¤ Territory ¤ Terrorism ¤ Time Management ¤ Trade unions ¤ Transitions ¤ Transnational Corporations ¤ Transparence, accountability ¤ Treaty, convention ¤ Ubuntu ¤ United Nations ¤ Unity-Diversity ¤ Values and principles ¤ Views on Global Governance ¤ Vulnerable group ¤ War ¤ Water ¤ Welfare society ¤ Westphalian system ¤ Work ¤ World citizenship ¤ World government ¤ World parliament ¤ World state ¤ World-governance building strategies ¤ WTO ¤ Harmony ¤ Constitution, Law ¤ Rights of Mother Earth ¤ Diplomacy ¤ Waste management ¤ Humanism ¤ Leviathan ¤ New educations ¤ Common security ¤ Nation state ¤ Federalism ¤ Geopolitics ¤ Violence management ¤ History ¤ Freedom ¤ Nationalism ¤ Rationalism ¤ Sovereignty ¤ Superpower ¤ Debt ¤ world-modernity ¤ Democratic cosmopolitarian movement ¤

Articles in English related to this theme:

Rebuilding the Environmental Balance

Transforming Capitalism: the Triple Crisis
¤ Peadar Kirby ¤ 18 December 2014
This article identifies a triple crisis of capitalism based on the three fictitious commodities as identified by Karl Polanyi: labour, money and land. This framework is used to integrate the environmental crisis into the wider crisis of capitalism. It argues that international actions required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are going to present major challenges for capitalism with implications for the current dominance of market power and the (...) read more

Environmental Governance and Managing the Earth

Call to Multiply the Village of Alternatives
¤ Alternatiba ¤ 25 February 2014
As Stéphane Hessel said, one of the greatest challenges of our time was “climate change and environmental degradation due to the actions of man throughout the last three centuries. The disruption of the climate is worsening faster than ever, and threatening the poorest populations of the planet and conditions for civilized life on Earth.” All the warning signs are here. Climate disruptions are multiplying, affecting the poorest populations of the global South, but also in the global North: (...) read more

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Dictionary of World Power
¤ FnWG Team ¤ 27 September 2013
Since the end of the last century, the world has been facing a set of challenges that the existing institutions are unable to address and solve. This is a fact that has been confirmed over the last thirty years through a succession of all kinds of crises. Citizens have found that the beautiful ideal of freedom preached by free-market sycophants is just a facade set up to conceal the altar of greed. The Forum for a new World Governance explores these changes in this extensive work, only (...) read more

Managing Territories, Cities, and the Rural World

Cities for All
¤ Ana Sugranyes, Charlotte Mathivet ¤ 2 June 2013
This book is a response to the hope and to the call to unite under the Right to the City banner, giving the floor to a wide range of actors fighting for this right. The wide variety of views, discourses, cultures, and experiences are the guiding themes of this publication.Different ideas are articulated and their differences converged toward the same goal: the right to the city as a banner of the struggle against neoliberalism. This is not an ideological abstraction. What is presented are (...) read more

Regulating the Public and the Private Economy

Regulating Transnational Companies: 46 Proposals
¤ William Bourdon, Yann Queinnec ¤ 20 December 2011
This Proposal Paper hopes to provide an explanation of the constraints and a series of proposals for a system for the regulation of transnational companies (TNCs). This requires us to first set out the fundamental obstacles that make the question of regulating the activities of TNCs so problematic. The crisis in the financial system that has hit economies worldwide has demonstrated the importance of regulating for-profit private and public transnational actors. The difficulties states have (...) read more

Types of Goods and Producers

The Future of the Commons
¤ David Bollier ¤ 16 December 2011
Twenty-one thinkers and activists from around the world gathered at Crottorf Castle near Cologne, Germany, on June 25-27, 2009, to discuss their shared interest in the commons as a new paradigm of politics, economics and culture. It was a meeting without an explicit agenda, yet one that yielded extraordinarily rich results: a clearer sense of how a new discourse of the commons might be developed; how it could be used to confront the savage pathologies of neoliberalism; and how it could (...) read more

Economic Governance and Globalization

Seven Leverage Points for the Passage from Economy to Œconomy
¤ Pierre Calame ¤ 13 May 2011
The concept of leverage points is very well adapted for a coalition wanting to act in favor of the great transition. We need to identify some concrete issues which we think should have a strong leverage effect as it would imply changes in the whole system. And looking at what is the systemic change about, it would not be a surprise that these leverage points relate either to concepts or to actors or to the very tools which are used in present economy. Here are seven proposed leverage (...) read more

Sustainable Development and the Humanity-Biosphere Relationship

Negative Growth or Sustainable Development?
¤ Guillaume Duval ¤ 5 December 2004
Extreme-climate instances are on the increase, waste is accumulating, groundwater is running out or is polluted, oil is going to become scarce, and controlling it is the cause of increasingly violent conflicts, whether in Iraq or in Chechnya. At the same time, the capacity of the current economic system to meet social needs is increasingly disputed. Global inequalities are becoming deeper, and if part of Asia is coming out of underdevelopment, it is doing so by adopting a lifestyle that (...) read more

"Negative Growth": Rebirth of a Revolutionary Concept
¤ Mathieu Auzanneau ¤ 29 March 2004
The idea of negative growth dates back to the beginning of the 1970s, about 20 years before the emergence of the concept of "sustainable development." It is a radical critique of the principle of constant growth of global income, in other words GDP growth, on which the entire current economic order is founded. The central argument of this critique: all the raw materials and the energy consumed today are lost for future generations. Rich countries must therefore consume a lot less in order (...) read more

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