---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Paul Raskin - Great Transition Initiative <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 9:33 PM Subject: Red and Green Together To: <[email protected]> GTI Bulletin - December 2018 View in browser <https://mailchi.mp/greattransition/red-and-green-together?e=a7f036d1ef> <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=f30cc60407&e=a7f036d1ef> *GTI Bulletin December 2018* Dear Friends, Is the Great Transition a postcapitalist project? Yes: its core values and aims—human solidarity, quality of life, ecological resilience—contradict the individualism, consumerism, and abuse of nature fostered by societies that grant primacy to the profit motive. But postcapitalism is mere negation. Can what-we-are-for be boiled down to a single, alternative “ism”? Not easily, since a systemic transition must weave a whole cloth from myriad cultural and ideological threads. In "Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=a85096e298&e=a7f036d1ef>,” Michael Löwy explores the twining of two cardinal “isms”—socialism and environmentalism. While they have often been at odds in the past, now, Löwy argues, environmentalists need to be socialists, and socialists need to be environmentalists. Löwy gives us much to ponder and act on. Still, it’s fair to ask: Does “ecosocialism” provide the best formulation for our times? A wide-ranging, esteemed group of commenters debates the question in our Roundtable: “Do Red and Green Mix? <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=b23a9add1c&e=a7f036d1ef> ” Wendell Berry has long been the poet laureate of community and the land. In “For Love of Place: Reflections of an Agrarian Sage <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=4be549bf46&e=a7f036d1ef>," he reflects on the evolution of his thinking and life choices, and what now needs doing. Carry it on, Paul Raskin GTI Director Visit us at www.greattransition.org <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=a626ba8c98&e=a7f036d1ef> <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=01883c19ba&e=a7f036d1ef> *Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=75e1eb063b&e=a7f036d1ef> *Michael Löwy* “Green capitalism” is an illusion, and twentieth-century socialism is a perversion. We need a new model and movement for a democratic and ecological socialism that links with the wider movement for a better world. Read More >> <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=d7fbc9420f&e=a7f036d1ef> <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=e51d25056a&e=a7f036d1ef> *Do Red and Green Mix?* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=3ba4cfb13f&e=a7f036d1ef> A debate on ecosocialism featuring Herman Daly, John Bellamy Foster, Kerryn Higgs, Giorgos Kallis, Alex Khasnabish, Ashish Kothari, Fred Magdoff, Simon Mair, Mary Mellor, and Vishwas Satgar, with a response from Michael Löwy. Read More >> <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=cc707f58fe&e=a7f036d1ef> <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=84e7d746ec&e=a7f036d1ef> *For Love of Place: Reflections of an Agrarian Sage* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=ab32095647&e=a7f036d1ef> *Interview with Wendell Berry* Loving the planet begins with loving community and nature at home. Farmer, activist, and prolific author Wendell Berry reflects on his life cultivating deep cultural and political roots of resistance and restoration. Read More >> <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=06ad65d43c&e=a7f036d1ef> *MacroScope* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=c431843c1e&e=a7f036d1ef> <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=9a6e33cfea&e=a7f036d1ef> *A Scan of Critical World Developments * <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=bc8b7968bf&e=a7f036d1ef> ------------------------------ *The Meaning of the Yellow Vest Uprising* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=7d02bc668e&e=a7f036d1ef> *France’s latest protest movement could presage a broader rebellion against neoliberalism. * *Export Fossil Fuels, Import Climate Change* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=61702db894&e=a7f036d1ef> *Climate change is biting back at fossil fuel exporters.* *Climate Call to Action* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=58bca3a149&e=a7f036d1ef> *The latest IPCC report sounds the alarm. Will the world wake up? * *Recent Publications* ------------------------------ *The Precariat: Today's Transformative Class?* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=b080b0141e&e=a7f036d1ef> Guy Standing *Debating the Precariat* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=9905563fd1&e=a7f036d1ef> Conflicting views of its significance *Living on the Frontlines of Resistance* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=4c14f157e9&e=a7f036d1ef> Medea Benjamin *Coming Soon* ------------------------------ *Explorations of...* *A world political party International labor unity The future of the climate movement Social ecology and local action* *Popular* ------------------------------ *Journey to Earthland: The Great Transition to Planetary Civilization* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=36e9e15c3d&e=a7f036d1ef> Paul Raskin *Debating the Sharing Economy* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=162984ed66&e=a7f036d1ef> Juliet Schor *Economics for a Full World* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=6e68f94017&e=a7f036d1ef> Herman Daly *The Degrowth Alternative* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=6c43563f0a&e=a7f036d1ef> Giorgos Kallis *Money for the People* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=333102fcbf&e=a7f036d1ef> Mary Mellor *Bounding the Planetary Future: Why We Need a Great Transition* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=04c3f3374c&e=a7f036d1ef> Johan Rockström *Climate: The Crisis and the Movement* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=d3bbfe1258&e=a7f036d1ef> Naomi Klein *Farming for a Small Planet: Agroecology Now* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=3a79a9dc11&e=a7f036d1ef> Frances Moore Lappé *Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=28b9011991&e=a7f036d1ef> John Bellamy Foster *Please share with your networks.* <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=8de99cda63&e=a7f036d1ef> Share <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=1d089d6ea1&e=a7f036d1ef> <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=87e82e9b64&e=a7f036d1ef> Tweet <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=eb9a1dd130&e=a7f036d1ef> <http://us15.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=0596395e78&e=a7f036d1ef> Forward <http://us15.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=0596395e78&e=a7f036d1ef> *Copyright © 2018 Tellus Institute* Not already a subscriber? Click here to get GTI's bimonthly bulletin <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=067389c6d2&e=a7f036d1ef> To make sure you receive our communications, add [email protected] to your address book or safe list. See instructions <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=7625110381&e=a7f036d1ef> Unsubscribe <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050&id=a0d95b0c18&e=a7f036d1ef&c=0596395e78> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/