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Modern Slavery in the Twenty-First Century

Is modern slavery surging, or just better counted? Inside the contested 49.6 million figure, forced-labour supply chains and the new trade crackdown.

Shenzhen, China: Electrifying the Megacity

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 10 In 2017, Shenzhen became the first city in the world to operate a fully electric public bus fleet. In...

World Environment Day 2026: Climate Action – Why It’s Still So Hard — and What Works

Clean energy is booming, yet emissions keep breaking records. A clear-eyed 2026 look at climate action—what's working, what's failing, and what it will take.

Barcelona Superblocks: The Radical Battle for Quiet, Green Cities

Inside Barcelona's radical push to reclaim streets from cars. How the superblock grid battles noise, heat, and tourism to recover Cerdà's vision.

Paris, or the Hard Work of a Breathing City

Green Cities Series | Article 02 How the French capital turned against the car, rewrote its streets, and discovered that a green city is not...

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The City Must Breathe An introduction to the Green Cities series: what we mean, how we will judge, and why the urban future is now...

From Vertical Jungles to Deep-Sea Cooling: Ten Green Hotels Rewriting the Rules of Regeneration

The global hospitality sector is facing an existential reckoning. As international tourist arrivals climb toward 1.4 billion annually, the industry’s massive carbon footprint and...

The Mountain Sage: Arne Naess and the Deep Ecological Turn

Arne Naess's Deep Ecology: Life-centered philosophy on the intrinsic value of all life, urging a shift from Shallow Ecology to Ecological Self-realization.

The Argument for Agroecology

I. A Farm at the Crossroads The dawn light over the Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh, India, reveals a landscape that defies the prevailing logic...

The Lens of Eternity: Baruch Spinoza and the Architecture of the Modern Soul

Audio discussion about this essay. I. Introduction: The Grinder of Glass and Gods In the damp, salt-laden air of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, a revolution was...

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