In Spain, the installation of large renewable energy plants is generating divides - with local populations concerned at the transformation of their homelands on the one hand and a climate that cannot wait on the other. Two new films - Alcarras and As Bestas - have brought these conflicts, which risk undermining the energy transition, to the big screen. Written by Adriana Mayor. Read by Julia Lagoutte. Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/alcarras-and-as-bestas-spains-renewable-energy-divides-play-out-in-cinemas/  Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal. Green Wave is produced ..read more

With each report from the UN’s intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC), the message is more alarming and the call more strident. Yet somehow, the findings struggle to move governments to action. From ‘climategate’ to the need to cater to conflicting stakeholders, the IPCC may in fact reinforce the status quo - but it could change that by embracing its intrinsically political role. Written by Kari De Pryck. Read by Julia Lagoutte. Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/why-the-ipcc-cant-escape-climate-politics/ Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal. Green Wave is produced b ..read more

The idea of 'economic insecurity' is vital to understanding how people actually feel about their past, present and future. Put simply, it is the experience or anticipation of economic hardship. Hannah Webster and Toby Murray explore what they call the UK’s current insecurity crisis and the political decisions that led us here. They ask: what kind of policies make people feel secure in their lives and positive about their future?  Written by Hannah Webster and Toby Murray. Read by Julia Lagoutte. Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/tackling-the-uks-insecurity-crisis/ Follow ..read more

Russia’s war on Ukraine pushed the world into a food crisis - or that’s how it felt. But this was only the latest tipping point for a global food system already on the edge. Jennifer Kwao explains how the conflict in Ukraine affected people's access to food everywhere, and especially in the Global South, and why the problems go much deeper.  Written by Jennifer Kwao. Read by Julia Lagoutte. Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-untold-story-of-the-food-crisis/ Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal. Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal ..read more

On this International Women's Day, we turn to Africa, where women have a long, rich, and active history of seeing their own liberation and the protection of nature as inseparable and forging ground-breaking campaigns at their intersection. From FOWA in Nigeria and Wangari Maathai in Kenya to today's generation of activists, listen to Anika Jane Dorothy and Lydia Ayame Hiraide on the movements that the rest of the world can be learning from.  Written by Anika Jane Dorothy and Lydia Ayame Hiraide. Read by Julia Lagoutte. Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/what-african-g ..read more

Renewable energy cooperatives and/or communities are the focus of our attention this week, and specifically their spread - albeit slow - in Central and Eastern Europe.  Tackling three urgent crises in one - climate change, rising energy prices, and the need to find alternatives to Russian gas - renewable energy co-ops are needed today more than ever, and the EU has committed to supporting their spread across Europe. But huge obstacles lie in their path. Seda Orhan from Climate Action Network (CAN) talks to members of pioneering cooperatives in Bulgaria, Poland and Romania about their vi ..read more

We’ve got a book review for you this week. Konrad Bleyer-Simon unpacks Road to Nowhere. Silicon Valley and the Future of Mobility by Paris Marx which sets out how the egoistic projects of tech billionaires such as Elon Musk have shaped our car-centred transport systems and what a vision centred around the needs of ordinary people would look like. Written by Konrad Bleyer-Simon. Read by Julia Lagoutte. Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/why-the-transport-visions-of-tech-billionaires-are-a-dead-end/  Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal. Green Wave is produced by the Green ..read more

In this episode, we zoom in on Italy again. Join us to unpack the September 2022 elections which led to Italy's most right-wing government since Mussolini. What underlies the rise in support for the party now leading the country: Brothers of Italy? What was missing in the appeals of left and progressive parties to Italian voters?    Written by Thomas Simon Mattia. Read by Julia Lagoutte. Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/why-were-italians-swayed-to-the-right-by-the-brothers-of-italy/    Follow us on socials: @greeneujournal. Green Wave is produced by the Gre ..read more

Your next podcast episode is another piece from our latest edition on the cost of living crisis. Robert Magowan looks at the multiple forms of disruption and crises we face globally - from the economic disruptions that have shaken Europe and the world in the past few decades to the deliberate public disruptions of increasingly desperate climate activists - and why this poses an unprecedented challenge to the way politicians and people understand the world. How can these tensions, rather than destabilise us, teach us about working together to carve a better future? This piece is from our newl ..read more

Welcome back! In this episode, we focus on one of the most important issues facing many of us: the cost of living crisis. It's time to question how we got here, look into the social and political effects of the crisis, and explore alternative ways of organising our society. Hear from young people in Italy and experts who explain why under-35s in Italy are so acutely affected by precarity and unemployment and the failure of political parties across the spectrum to revive their hopes. This piece is from our newly-published winter issue: Priced Out: The Cost of Living in A Disrupted World, whic ..read more