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Climate Crisis: Hope as a Strategy

The climate crisis is already here. In the face of it, neither naive optimism nor pessimism will help. We need active hope: the understanding that the future depends on what we do today. Every action counts. Tomorrow cannot be predicted; it is built through organization, collective action, and pressure on those in power. Let’s not wait for a better future—let’s make it livable starting now. 📸: Susan Wilkinson, Oliver Kwembe, Leonardo Basso, Francesco Ungaro.

Elsie Ralston

The Care Economy

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The Care Economy

The system has always talked about productivity, growth, and efficiency. But it has rarely talked about who truly sustains life. Care is also infrastructure. Care is also the economy. Care is also the future. Invisible, feminized, and often unpaid, care sustains households, communities, and entire cities. Ignoring it is not only unfair—it’s unsustainable. 📸Photos: Sahaj Patel, Sushanta Rokka, The New York Public Library, BenjaminChambon.

Elsie Ralston

Community Innovation

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Community Innovation

There are other ways to think about the future: more local, more collaborative, and less dependent on systems that prioritize extraction over life. Community innovation shows that technology can also strengthen social ties, knowledge sharing, and help build collective autonomy. Photos: Andres Kishimoto

Elsie Ralston

Decolonizing the Mind

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Decolonizing the Mind

Why decolonization remains urgent: in what is studied, in what is called knowledge, and in what is considered progress.

Cristian Situ

Invisible Infrastructure

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Invisible Infrastructure

The infrastructures that sustain life—water, soil, networks, care—and why innovation must strengthen them.

Elsie Ralston

The Myth of Growth

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The Myth of Growth

In terms of GDP, a country is doing well when it produces and consumes more. It doesn’t matter whether people are living better, whether the air becomes unbreathable, or whether rivers dry up. Degrowth challenges that idea. It emerged in 1972, when André Gorz asked whether growth could continue indefinitely on a finite planet. Degrowth does not mean impoverishing anyone: it means redistributing work, time, and resources so that everyone can live well.

Cristian Situ

Learning from the South

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Learning from the South

What if innovation doesn’t come from where we’ve always been told it does? The Global South has been, and continues to be, a vibrant source of knowledge, adaptation, and innovation: agroecology, community governance, cultures of restoration. It’s not aid. It’s learning. The future is built through dialogue 🤝 Photos: Jacqueline Munguia, Oliver Kwembe, Leonardo Basso.

Elsie Ralston

From Sustainable Design to Regenerative Design

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From Sustainable Design to Regenerative Design

For centuries, we have designed without considering our interdependence with nature, but today it is not enough to simply reduce harm: we must design to restore. The challenge is to transform our practices to regenerate ecosystems, communities, and economies through technology that coexists in harmony with nature. From carbon-capturing architecture to urban planning that transforms cities into living ecosystems, the key lies in revaluing ancestral knowledge and fostering a regenerative mindset. 📸 Ricardo Gómez Ángel, Pim de Boer.

Elsie Ralston

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