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November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
From our Winter edition - Acting Out: Arts and Culture Under Pressure - is out on 1st December. Subscribe now and get two print editions a year delivered straight to your door for €8: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/subscribe-or...
Join us in Lisbon on 4 December for the launch of our Winter edition. Arts and culture help us imagine alternative futures, yet they face defunding, political pressure, and AI extraction. We will explore these challenges and ways to fight back.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Join us in Lisbon on 4 December for the launch of our Winter edition. Arts and culture help us imagine alternative futures, yet they face defunding, political pressure, and AI extraction. We will explore these challenges and ways to fight back.
All info👇
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Faced with this destruction, the women have turned to crafting jewellery and ceramics as alternative income. They dream to build a tourist lodge in the land, offering a different economic path that honours their culture and allows them to share it with visitors.
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Faced with this destruction, the women have turned to crafting jewellery and ceramics as alternative income. They dream to build a tourist lodge in the land, offering a different economic path that honours their culture and allows them to share it with visitors.
And that is not all. Under right-wing President Daniel Noboa, Ecuador has actively promoted extractive industries. His administration eliminated the Ministry of the Environment, transferring its functions to the Ministry of Energy and Mines and implementing policies that accelerated extraction.
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
And that is not all. Under right-wing President Daniel Noboa, Ecuador has actively promoted extractive industries. His administration eliminated the Ministry of the Environment, transferring its functions to the Ministry of Energy and Mines and implementing policies that accelerated extraction.
Gold mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon is poisoning rivers, uprooting trees, and menacing Indigenous lives. But Kichwa women from the community of Serena have chosen to organise and resist. They created Yuturi Warmi, Ecuador’s first women-led Indigenous guard, to block miners from entering their land👇
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Gold mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon is poisoning rivers, uprooting trees, and menacing Indigenous lives. But Kichwa women from the community of Serena have chosen to organise and resist. They created Yuturi Warmi, Ecuador’s first women-led Indigenous guard, to block miners from entering their land👇
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November 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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The optimism of the early creative economy has dissolved. With cheap housing, public education, and strong civic institutions gone, cultural work has become precarious, with a handful of corporations dominating production.
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The optimism of the early creative economy has dissolved. With cheap housing, public education, and strong civic institutions gone, cultural work has become precarious, with a handful of corporations dominating production.
Nikola Bonchev created Drujba Garden, an urban garden run horizontally by 80 residents who grow their own food. Former industrial wastelands are now becoming biodiversity hotspots, like the Kremikovtsi mine, now Bulgaria’s deepest lake.
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Nikola Bonchev created Drujba Garden, an urban garden run horizontally by 80 residents who grow their own food. Former industrial wastelands are now becoming biodiversity hotspots, like the Kremikovtsi mine, now Bulgaria’s deepest lake.
Martin Yankov returned from London to found Kolektivat, an NGO revitalising Sofia’s forgotten rivers. Since 2020, his team has cleaned different sections each year, offering free cultural activities around them. The project will take a decade, but Yankov is not worried.
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Martin Yankov returned from London to found Kolektivat, an NGO revitalising Sofia’s forgotten rivers. Since 2020, his team has cleaned different sections each year, offering free cultural activities around them. The project will take a decade, but Yankov is not worried.
Sofia’s residents have watched their city suffer under corrupt management and pollution for decades. However, Bulgaria’s “transition generation” refuses to wait for change. They are taking matters into their own hands, transforming neglected spaces into ecological havens.🪡
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sofia’s residents have watched their city suffer under corrupt management and pollution for decades. However, Bulgaria’s “transition generation” refuses to wait for change. They are taking matters into their own hands, transforming neglected spaces into ecological havens.🪡
Prime minister Petr Fiala calls the region Europe’s future lithium superpower. The EU classified the project as strategic, unlocking Just Transition Fund money. But local communities remember broken promises from previous mining operations that left them with pollution and poverty.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Prime minister Petr Fiala calls the region Europe’s future lithium superpower. The EU classified the project as strategic, unlocking Just Transition Fund money. But local communities remember broken promises from previous mining operations that left them with pollution and poverty.
The Czech Ore Mountains are finally recovering from decades of coal mining and heavy industry. Former quarries have transformed into recreational lakes, and tourism is developing. Yet a new extractive project threatens this fragile revival: lithium mining in the Cínovec area.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Czech Ore Mountains are finally recovering from decades of coal mining and heavy industry. Former quarries have transformed into recreational lakes, and tourism is developing. Yet a new extractive project threatens this fragile revival: lithium mining in the Cínovec area.
💡This month’s main story of The Sprout, our ideas-driven newsletter, explores how Big Tech companies have colonised our collective imagination about AI’s future. They promise that technology alone can solve our crises, that progress is inevitable, and that democratic oversight is merely an obstacle.
October 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
💡This month’s main story of The Sprout, our ideas-driven newsletter, explores how Big Tech companies have colonised our collective imagination about AI’s future. They promise that technology alone can solve our crises, that progress is inevitable, and that democratic oversight is merely an obstacle.
In May 2024 the Italian government banned ground-mounted panels in agricultural areas. New projects must be agrivoltaic, with elevated panels allowing farming underneath. The intention was to create a positive environment, where energy and food production could coexist.
October 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
In May 2024 the Italian government banned ground-mounted panels in agricultural areas. New projects must be agrivoltaic, with elevated panels allowing farming underneath. The intention was to create a positive environment, where energy and food production could coexist.
Bruno Carnevali received an unexpected offer for his family vineyard. A Milan energy firm proposed buying his land for sixty per cent above market value to install solar panels. The vines his family had cultivated for three generations would be uprooted.
October 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Bruno Carnevali received an unexpected offer for his family vineyard. A Milan energy firm proposed buying his land for sixty per cent above market value to install solar panels. The vines his family had cultivated for three generations would be uprooted.
Italy’s renewable energy boom is transforming the Po Valley into a battleground between climate goals and food production. As solar companies uproot farmland, farmers face an impossible choice: sell out or watch their way of life disappear.
October 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Italy’s renewable energy boom is transforming the Po Valley into a battleground between climate goals and food production. As solar companies uproot farmland, farmers face an impossible choice: sell out or watch their way of life disappear.
📖This article was featured in Head On: Facing the Far Right - our winter 2024 edition - Read it now: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/imitation-ga...
September 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
📖This article was featured in Head On: Facing the Far Right - our winter 2024 edition - Read it now: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/imitation-ga...
A new political hybrid is emerging across Europe. Known as “conservative socialism”, it mixes socialist economics with anti-immigration views and opposition to minority rights. This unusual combination has blurred the traditional lines between Left and Right.🧵
September 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
A new political hybrid is emerging across Europe. Known as “conservative socialism”, it mixes socialist economics with anti-immigration views and opposition to minority rights. This unusual combination has blurred the traditional lines between Left and Right.🧵
This month’s main story of The Sprout, our ideas-driven newsletter, explores Langer’s approach to “ecological conversion” – transforming how we live, consume, and relate to nature and each other for genuine sustainability.
September 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This month’s main story of The Sprout, our ideas-driven newsletter, explores Langer’s approach to “ecological conversion” – transforming how we live, consume, and relate to nature and each other for genuine sustainability.
Muco calls instead for support to local-led agrotourism projects, which are more likely to involve locals, respect the land, and sustain rural economies.
September 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Muco calls instead for support to local-led agrotourism projects, which are more likely to involve locals, respect the land, and sustain rural economies.
Yet doubts are mounting. Who exactly will benefit from this scheme? Local communities in Albania’s lush northern regions, already hit by depopulation and economic marginalisation, now fear losing access to ancestral lands vital for foraging, shepherding, and traditional livelihoods.
September 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Yet doubts are mounting. Who exactly will benefit from this scheme? Local communities in Albania’s lush northern regions, already hit by depopulation and economic marginalisation, now fear losing access to ancestral lands vital for foraging, shepherding, and traditional livelihoods.