Green Wave
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Green Wave
Green Wave showcases some of the best articles from the Green European Journal - Europe’s leading political ecology magazine offering green & progressive ideas and analysis. For the text version of the articles and printed editions go to greeneuropeanjournal.eu, or follow the journal on Facebook...
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Episode 100: Reclaiming Time
Do you have time to listen to this podcast? Today we look at how the grip of clock time has become inescapable. The way we view and understand time is...
Episode 99: Green Class Struggle: Workers and the Just Transition
We turn to questions of class and workers' rights in how we tackle the climate crisis and the just transition in this week's episode. Gareth Dale expl...
Episode 98: Light, Air, Sun, Carbon Neutrality: Greening Vienna’s Social Housing
In this episode, we turn to Vienna, as it aims to tackle a major source of carbon emissions: housing. The Austrian city has led the way for more than...
Episode 97: Should a Climate Activist Stand up for Gaza?
This week we turn to Israel’s war on Gaza and the internal discussions it has sparked within the climate movement. While some activists argue against...
Episode 96: Are Greens Speaking out Against Islamophobia?
Compared to most other political movements, Greens have a track record of inclusive politics, and have long welcomed refugees and Muslims into their r...
Episode 95: Health vs. Wealth? Political Choices in the European Health Union
This week, we turn to health. More specifically, the new European Health Union. Though a step in the right direction, public health advocates expect m...
Episode 94: A Recipe for Survival
Veganism, the ethical choice, was once born of necessity. Today’s regular omnivore diet was previously a luxury for the wealthy, ill afforded by peasa...
Episode 93: The Women of Ventotene
This week's piece is from our new edition, Aligning Stars: Routes to a Different Europe.
The Ventotene Manifesto, named after the Italia...
Episode 92: “Enemies of Society”: How the Media Portray Climate Activists
From dangerous extremists to silly children, how the media portrays climate activists such as Last Generation and Just Stop Oil is the topic of today’...
Episode 91: Green Housing Threatens Affordability. But It Doesn’t Have To
Housing is the focus in this episode - something we all need but which is increasingly expensive and in short supply, due in large part to the financi...
Episode 90: Slovak elections: Who Is to Blame for Robert Fico’s Return?
Slovak voters head to the polls on the 30th September for early parliamentary elections. One of the winners looks set to be former Prime Minister Robe...
Episode 89: Young Activism, Old Politics: Italy’s Divided Climate Movement
10 months on from the start of Italy's new far-right government under Prime Giorgia Meloni from the Brothers of Italy, this episode looks at climate p...
Episode 88: Serbia’s Lithium: Sacrifice Zones or Opportunity for Europe’s Peripheries?
Welcome to the podcast and to another piece from our latest edition! The green transition relies on the use of numerous rare minerals. Lithium especia...
Episode 87: The Cities Feeling the Heat
Our latest edition is out! And if you've been sweltering in a city this summer, don't miss this episode. Celia Fernández explains how rising temperat...
Episode 86: Alcarràs and As Bestas: Spain’s Renewable Energy Divides Play Out in Cinemas
In Spain, the installation of large renewable energy plants is generating divides - with local populations concerned at the transformation of their ho...
Episode 85: Why the IPCC Can’t Escape Climate Politics
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,...
Episode 84: Tackling the UK’s Insecurity Crisis
The idea of 'economic insecurity' is vital to understanding how people actually feel about their past, present and future. Put simply, it is the exper...
Episode 83: The Untold Story of the Food Crisis
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 syst...
Episode 82: What African Green Feminist Power Has to Offer
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 protect...
Episode 81: Is Degrowth the Future?
That infinite economic growth is simply not possible on a finite planet seems a truth that is increasingly hard to escape - in some circles. Yet gover...
Episode 80: Powering Up Energy Communities in Central and Eastern Europe
Renewable energy cooperatives and/or communities are the focus of our attention this week, and specifically their spread - albeit slow - in Central an...
Episode 79: Why the Transport Visions of Tech Billionaires are a Dead End
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...
Episode 78: Why Were Italians Swayed to the Right by the Brothers of Italy?
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 Musso...
Episode 77: A Climate of Disruption
In this episode, we tackle one of the most important questions of the decade. With global disruption and crises set to become the norm, how should Gre...
Episode 76: Cost of Living: No Country for Young People
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...
Episode 75: The Environmental Cost of the War in Ukraine
It's almost nine months since the start of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Rarely mentioned in coverage or analysis of the war is the ecological impact o...
Episode 74: COP27: Barred from the Climate conversation
COP27 has just kicked off!
Despite having official invitations to international climate summits, many young Global South organisers find...
Episode 73: After Modernity: Citizenship Beyond the Nation State?
Welcome back! In this episode, we explore the concepts of citizenship and of nation states - two norms which are rarely questioned in Europe today - a...
Episode 72: Swedish Elections and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right
On 11 September, Sweden went to the polls to elect a new government. In this episode, we look into what the results might mean for the country, how Sw...
Episode 71: The Unhealthy Geopolitics of a Sovereign Europe
In this episode, Luiza Bialasiewicz explains why thinking pandemic geopolitics through the lens of 'health sovereignty' ignores the geographies of vul...
Episode 70: What the Recent IPCC Report Means for Europe and the World
Welcome back! This summer has shown - once again - that extreme weather events like heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires are becoming more frequent and...
Episode 69: The Road to a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
In this episode, we talk all about coal, oil, and gas. When it comes to keeping fossil fuels in the ground, COPs will only get us so far. Peter Newell...
Episode 68: Will Ecology Expand the EU’s Horizons?
We are back. In this episode, we explore how ecology could expand the EU's horizons through the Green Deal. For the European Union, the energy transit...
Episode 67: The Return of the Brezhnev Doctrine
Despite the warnings, the invasion of Ukraine took the world by surprise. As Putin continues his brutal invasion of #Ukraine, journalist Richard Rober...
Episode 66: The Romanian Protest Wave - A Path to a New Political Era?
We are back!
In the first episode of the new year, we'll be going to Romania where over the past decades, there have been successive wav...
Episode 65: Promised Lands in Manfredonia: Environmental Justice Is About Democracy
This week, we tell the story of how, for one Italian town, democracy is an ongoing struggle for environmental justice and self-determination. A story...
Episode 64: Feminist Finland: From Representation to Equality
In this episode, we are going to Finland. For over a century, Finland has pioneered women’s representation in politics. But discrimination still casts...
Episode 63: A State of Disrepair: Democracy in the United Kingdom
This week, we are going to the UK! The UK government’s handling of Brexit and the health crisis has been undeniably chaotic and venal. In a bid to dis...
Episode 62: Draghi’s Team of Rivals
This week, we are going to Italy.
In February, Mario Draghi, got sworn-in as Italy's next prime minister and formed a coalition governmen...
Episode 61: Germany’s Year of Elections: Has the Pandemic Scuppered the Green Rise
2021 is Germany's "super election year"!
The end of Merkel era, the rise of the Greens, the fallout from the pandemic.
Roder...