Imagining the Ultimate Global Sharing Day
There is nothing novel about the practice of sharing; people do it every day and have done since the dawn of civilisation. But on Global Sharing Day, millions of people in organisational networks that...
View ArticleThe Sharing Economy: Our Sustainable Future
The following article is based on an edited transcript of a presentation by STWR’s Rajesh Makwana for an event held at the House of Commons in Westminster, London, on the emergence of the sharing...
View ArticleExtreme Wealth vs Global Sharing
Last year alone, the world’s 100 richest people earned a combined additional income of $241 billion. According to new calculations, redistributing just a quarter of this vast quantity of money would...
View ArticleWill Development Goals Ever Be Enough?
Governments must accept that the root causes of poverty, inequality and climate change will never be addressed without substantial reforms to the global economy. In the meanwhile, the post-2015...
View ArticleMoving Beyond the Corporate Vision of Sustainability
In light of ongoing global negotiations on pressing environmental issues, it’s time for efforts to curtail the excessive influence of multinational corporations over public policy to be strengthened...
View ArticleEquity + Sustainability = Sharing Globally
At a time when the risk of civilizational collapse is widely forewarned, it is time to recognise that the call for sharing is a cause that can unite concerned citizens working on a diverse range of...
View ArticleGlobal Justice, Sustainability and the Sharing Economy
If the sharing economy movement is to play a role in shifting society away from the dominant economic paradigm, it will have to get political. And this means guarding against the co-optation of sharing...
View ArticleMobilising a Counter-hegemonic Climate Movement
As concerned citizens mobilise for climate change demonstrations across the world, never has it been more important to embrace a collective demand for ‘system change’ as the surest way to limit global...
View ArticleSharing a (not so) living planet
As further evidence comes to light of how our economic systems are decimating the natural world, sharing is fast emerging as the central theme in the discourse on how to ensure prosperity for all...
View ArticleChallenging Corporate Power in a Not-for-profit World
As businesses increasingly embrace a not-for-profit culture, an end to overconsumption on a finite planet could finally be in sight. But given the huge lobbying power of vested interests, it will...
View ArticleThe Coming Financial Crisis: a Harbinger of World Renewal?
A full six years after the global financial crisis, not only have governments failed to rethink the way we organise our economic systems, but politicians across the world have pressed forward with an...
View ArticleBeyond the Market-State
At a time when governments are failing abysmally to mitigate climate change, reduce inequality or end poverty, the key to creating a more equal and sustainable world is establishing participative forms...
View ArticleThe Truth about Poverty and How to Address It
It’s high time UN agencies and the mainstream media acknowledge the true scale of global poverty and engage in a long overdue public debate on how ambitious and transformative the international...
View ArticleTen Billion Reasons to Demand System Change
Has the international community left it too late to prevent runaway climate change and widespread ecological degradation? Does the typical citizen and career politician have the inclination to accept...
View ArticleA New Era of Global Protest Begins
Research by Dr. David Bailey provides empirical evidence for what many activists and campaigners have long suspected: that we have entered a prolonged period of dissent characterised by an escalation...
View ArticleWorld Day for Social Justice 2016: Time to Share the Wealth
Every year since 2009, the United Nations has highlighted February 20th as the World Day for Social Justice in a bid to underscore the glaring inequalities that increasingly characterise the world...
View ArticleScrapping Trident and Transitioning to a Nuclear-free World
As the illicit trade in nuclear weapons escalates alongside the risk of geopolitical conflict, it’s high time governments decisively prioritised nuclear disarmament – and that means scrapping Trident,...
View ArticleThe Global Refugee Crisis
The real crisis is not the influx of refugees to Europe, per se, but a toxic combination of destabilising foreign policy agendas, economic austerity and the rise of right-wing nationalism, which is...
View ArticlePanama Papers: Reigniting the Debate for a Global Tax
Establishing a globally agreed tax body under the auspices of the United Nations and putting an end to dubious tax avoidance activities would bolster government revenues and help finance the provision...
View ArticleNo Recognition of ‘One Humanity’ at the World Humanitarian Forum
For how much longer do we want to witness the annual palaver of these global conferences on poverty and undernutrition, while nothing is done on an adequate scale to help these tragically neglected...
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