Green Wave

This episode is all about rebellion! Extinction Rebellion erupted in 2018 in the UK. It denounces the political inertia and obfuscation of “truth” that permeate climate change debates. Since then, XR has spread like wildfire and now gathers thousands of activists worldwide.

In this episode, Louise Knops explores how the movement channels affect at a pivotal moment in which climate has become a concern for everyone, not just activists and academia. Looking forward, she asks how we can move from insurrection to renewal.

Produced by the Green European Journal (www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu).
Written by Louise Knops.
Read by Gail Rego.
Text Version: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/on-the-love-and-rage-of-extinction-rebellion/

This week, we're going to Germany. As the energy transition debate continues, land-intensive extraction processes continue to displace villages across the German lignite belt. Based on their fieldwork, Paula Castro and Hannah Porada analyse the experiences of villagers near the Garzweiler mine in the Rhineland.

Produced by the Green European Journal (www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu).
Written by Paula Castro & Hannah Porada.
Read by Julia Lagoutte.
Text Version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/resettling-villages-unsettling-lives/

This article is from our new edition: A World Alive - Green Politics in Europe and Beyond which maps the forces, strategies, and ideas driving green politics and thinking today. It's out now and available to read online or download as PDF for free at www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu

This week, we're taking a break from everything to talk about 'time'.
As millions are now working from home due to #COVID19, consistently, for the first time, we need to reconsider our relationships with time, work, leisure, and sleep and recognise the importance of an ecological appreciation of time.

Produced by the Green European Journal (www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu).
Written by Robert Magowan.
Read by Julia Lagoutte.
Text Version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/putting-time-at-the-heart-of-political-ecology/

The #Covid_19 pandemic has fundamentally questioned how society should be organised to ensure health and wellbeing for all.

It’s time for a paradigm shift: from a sleepwalking society focused on profit, competition, and consumption, to a future-oriented one that prioritises investment, cooperation, and wellbeing.

In this episode, Dirk Holemans argues that the guiding principle for recovery should be resilience and says “Let COVID-19 be a wake-up call that puts an end to sleepwalking.”

Produced by the Green European Journal (www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu).
Written by Dirk Holemans.
Read by Julia Lagoutte.
Text Version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/after-industrialism-reviving-nature-in-the-21st-century/

This week, we are talking about ecologism which emerged as a critique of industrialism, the ideology that binds liberalism, conservativism, and socialism. It develops these three dominant political traditions by recognising nature as the basis for the human’s existence and development.

Due to the crisis of the human in nature, the ecologisation of human society needs to happen now.

Written by Reinhard Olschanski.
Read by Julia Lagoutte.
Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/after-industrialism-reviving-nature-in-the-21st-century/

This article is from our new edition: A World Alive - Green Politics in Europe and Beyond which maps the forces, strategies, and ideas driving green politics and thinking today. It's out now and available to read online or download as PDF for free at www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu

This week, we're taking a tour around the different worlds of Green Politics, namely: three forces leading political ecology today – green socialism, the radical critics of modernity, and elite technocracy. While their diagnoses differ fundamentally, much is resting on them getting along.

Written by Pierre Charbonnier.
Read by Julia Lagoutte.
Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-three-tribes-of-political-ecology/

This article is from our new edition: A World Alive - Green Politics in Europe and Beyond which maps the forces, strategies, and ideas driving green politics and thinking today. It's out now and available to read online or download as PDF for free at www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu.

Awareness has grown of the intimate link between climate change and migration in past years but it remains a complex and contentious issue.
In a debate fanned by the media and populist politicians, University of Liège researcher Caroline Zickgraf separates myth from reality and explains how our changing environment is making people move.
Written by Caroline Zickgraf.
Read by Julia Lagoutte.
Text version: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/climate-change-and-migration-myths-and-realities/

The UK left the EU; Brexit left us with so many questions like:
- So what now?
- What will this mean for Britain's place in the world?
- How will the UK Government reckon with a new relationship with its EU partners?
All questions answered in this episode of the Green Wave Podcast.
Written by Fraser Cameron.
Read by Julia Lagoutte.
Text version: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/british-foreign-policy-after-brexit/

The Climate Strikes arrived in the Czech Republic this year as youth started to protest against the government’s chronic inaction on climate. But now what?

Josef Patocka, editor for climate change at Deník Referendum, breaks down how to effectively push for structural change and a just transition to clean energy.

Written by Josef Patocka.
Read by Julia Lagoutte.
Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-climate-justice-movement-in-the-czech-republic-has-broken-the-silence-now-what/

The far right failed to make the gains many expected at the European elections, but their influence on the direction of the Union is pervasive. Activists linked to Attac Austria argue that progressives supporting today’s EU irrespective of its policy agenda are playing on terrain that favours only the far right and the neoliberal establishment.

So the question is: How can progressives rethink their relationship to the EU as it stands and make sure that they are ready to oppose and resist?

Written by Alexandra Strickner, Kai J. Lingnau, and Valentin Schwarz.
Read by Julia Lagoutte.
Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-future-of-the-eu-soldiers-barbed-wire-and-surveillance/