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“Cutting down trees and contaminating water to build a mine is not green energy, and never will be.” Interview with the association Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso
In Covas do Barroso, the threat of an open-pit lithium mine mobilised the community to defend their land, water and way of life. Elisabete Pires and Diogo Sobral, from UDCB, explain how this resistance began and why they believe protecting Barroso is a matter of environmental and democratic justice that goes beyond the village.
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Interview with Susana Ribeira and Guilherme Serôdio from the Network for Degrowth (Portugal)
In a global context marked by ecological and socio-economic crisis, degrowth emerges as a radical and urgent proposal to rethink our ways of living, economic structures, and the organization of cities, offering concrete paths for a transition toward fairer, more sustainable societies centered on collective well-being.
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Why was Ulmeiro created?
We live in an era of overlapping crises – climatic, social, and economic. At Ulmeiro, we believe that limitless economic growth is not viable, and that models based on regeneration and collective well-being are possible, even when they are ignored by mainstream discourse. Our project was created to deepen debates on political ecology, degrowth, and…
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