Less is More — Jason Hickel

On technology and degrowth (notes on Hickel 2023)

Jason Hickel is one of the leading voices in the degrowth/postgrowth movement, and recently laid out his thoughts on the relationship between degrowth and technology. He raises a number of importan…

The Divide — Jason Hickel

The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions Penguin Random House UK, 2017

IDS Annual Lecture 2026 with Jason Hickel - Institute of Development Studies

Join us for the IDS Annual Lecture 2026 delivered by world-renowned political economist and author Prof Jason Hickel.

Hammock Driven Development

Rich Hickey gave a very interesting talk on problem solving titled "Hammock Driven Development". Rich took a much more personal (experiential) angle with this talk, so while it was sparse on...

The Feed is the Product: Why We Stay in Walled Gardens, and Why We Might Finally Leave for the Open Social Web - Zsolt's pckt blog

We have known this for years. We have known that the major platforms are bad for our attention, our sleep, our politics, our children, and our sense of reality....

Jason Hickel on Twitter / X

The climate crisis reveals that our civilization has never really been organized around science, contrary to the usual Enlightenment narrative. It is organized around capital. Science is embraced when it serves the interests of capital, and is often ignored when it does not.— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) January 6, 2022

Ecocivilization: making a world that works for all

""One of the greatest thinkers of our age" (The Guardian) presents a new way of living-one modeled on nature's design instead of capitalism's-for fans of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Doughnut Economics It has often been said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism-and yet that is what the historical moment urgently calls for. Climate change has reached an emergency state, inequality continues to grow, and, for many, the future has never seemed more bleak. Incremental policy improvements are no longer enough-we need a deep transformation of our current civilization to continue to survive. In Ecocivilization, leading thinker Jeremy Lent reimagines the basis of our civilization, and argues for a new global system of living, one based on life-affirming principles modeled after nature's own design. What enfolds is a robust framework incorporating Lent's own expertise, and the lived experiences of those on the ground already putting ecological civilization's core tenants into practice-justice, mutuality, diversity, and symbiosis. From the global economy to universal housing and income, from infrastructure to agriculture, every major aspect of our society could be redesigned to work together as a coherent whole, setting the conditions for all people to flourish. Ecocivilization shows how this future on a regenerated Earth is not only desirable, but entirely feasible"--

Three minutes with Hans Rosling will change your mind about the world

Nature - He has influenced leaders from Melinda Gates to Fidel Castro. Now, he is on a mission to save people from their preconceived ideas.

Adaptation as a catalyst for social change - MACC Hub

Explore how transformational adaptation can address climate risk, inequality and austerity by investing in people, wellbeing and more resilient societies.

We asked our climate reporters to highlight one idea for positive change. We got a chronicle of global transformation

There are countless initiatives around the world that can inspire people and spur them into action. Amid the devastation of the climate crisis, our journalists strive to highlight these stories of hope

The Commons Explained in 15 Minutes | David Bollier

The Next Decade of Preprints Needs Experiments, Not Opinions

Lately, I have spent a considerable amount of time writing about my concerns regarding the direction of the preprint ecosystem and the behaviour of some of the actors within it. Increasingly, I wor…

The Community Lifecycle: From Launch to Legacy

Serious community builders know that communities are ecosystems; they have a lifecycle that needs adaptive strategies. That lifecycle stretches from Inception – which begins well before the free platform trial stage