Life over Lithium
By Jessica Ng
Volume 25, no. 2, Bleeding Earth
Elizabeth was an integral part of the group that produced the first issues of Science for the People. She not only contributed artwork but also participated in layout, paste-up, and the numerous other tasks necessary in those pre-computer...
Defined as an equitable and democratic reduction of energy and material throughput targeted at rich nations and the globally wealthy, degrowth has grown in popularity over the last few years with growing political support.
From copper in Chile, gold in South Africa, to rare earth elements in China, extraction delimits world history and the current geopolitical landscape. Natural resources are not neutral; we must understand who extracts them, where do they...
As a part of the New Deal program for economic recovery, rural electrical cooperatives were never designed to empower labor. Yet, their democratic and socialist potentials remain possible today if we impose a radical vision from the...