The Olive Network
We started thinking about the words that have perhaps been most neglected in recent times, and the need to return to them, and with resolve…in all their forms and resonances
Now gathering
73 voices connected
Lead story · Sustainability
An Indian State converts its 6 million farmers to agroecology. Andhra Pradesh, a state in south east India, opens the way with the largest agro-ecological project in the world and a plan to feed all its population without use of…
Climate·29 October 2023
The Gallery of Ecological Art (formerly China gallery) at the British Museum of Decolonised Nature. Image courtesy John Zhang and Studio JZ, Author provided
ON Network · 15 min read
Economics·18 July 2025
Analysis of Capitalism - Globalization - Socio-ecological Transformation - Democratic Socialism
ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG · 23 min read
Arts & Culture·4 September 2023
In support of shared struggles for equality, social and ecological justice, Art of Internationalism builds from a place-based understanding of the world: one grounded in situated histories, rooted in communities and lands and intimately…
ON Network · 13 min read
Climate·3 December 2025
In late 2017, Branko Milanovic wrote a blog post titled “ The illusion of degrowth in a poor and unequal world .” He penned it, he says, following a conversation he had with a proponent of degrowth, which was me. I wrote a response, which…
JASON HICKEL · 62 min read
Climate·5 April 2024
Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, activist and filmmaker whose work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization.
ON Network · 1 min read
Climate·8 December 2025
(A shorter version of the following statement was published in The Observer Letters section on 24/5/2020. An e-petition is being set up on the final demand of a Citizens’ Assembly. If you would like to sign the petition please drop me a…
ON Network · 12 min read
Arts & Culture·12 December 2024
ON SOURCE: E-FLUX June 14–October 12, 2025 Galleri F 15 Albyalléen 60 1519 Moss Norway gallerif15.no momentum.no MOMENTUM, one of the most anticipated events in the Nordic art scene, returns for its 13th edition under the theme…
E-FLUX · 5 min read
Climate·14 January 2022
SFER IK in Mexico, an interdisciplinary arts space within the Azulik resort complex near Tulum, designed by the architect and eco-hotelier Eduardo Neira, known as RothPhoto: courtesy of Azulik
ON Network · 13 min read
Climate·12 May 2025
Restoring degraded land and slowing the pace of desertification is vital for the achievement of the SDGs, including those on hunger, poverty, biodiversity, and climate action, as well as for contributing to the UNCCD goals on land…
ON Network · 4 min read
New Museum·14 February 2024
Join us for our flagship 2020 summit We Make Tomorrow: Creative climate action in a time of crisis to be at the forefront of an urgent and creative plan for change.
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Arts & Culture·12 June 2026
The Other Tree of Guernica (edited still), 1969. Dir. Pedro Lazaga Sabater.
e-flux Education · 4 min read
Systems Change·10 June 2026
Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare/The Guardian Opinion/ Poverty ON SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN Wed 10 Jun 2026 10.00 CEST We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way Olivier De Schutter , Joseph Stigli
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Systems Change·17 February 2026
‘Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about the lamb’s.’ Photograph: Minerva Studio/Alamy ON SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN Thu 12 Feb 2026 13.00 GMT We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – h
5 min read
Arts & Culture·17 February 2026
ON Ed - while this essay is from 2021, it still feels relevant in 2026
THE GREAT TRANSITION INITIATIVE · 15 min read
New Museum·6 October 2025
Nick Merriman, chief executive of the Horniman Museum & Gardens. Photo by Tania Dolvers
4 min read
Climate·6 October 2025
Seba Calfuqueo, Tray Tray Ko, video, 6’13, 2022, film still, photo by: Sebastian Melo.
ON Network · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·17 February 2025
Activist Alistair Alexander works on alternatives to a techno-authoritarian future - drawing inspiration from nature as a model for resilience.
THE CITIZENS ON SUBSTACK · 10 min read
Systems Change·15 November 2024
FORUM FOR THE FUTURE: Our 2023-2025 strategy Three transitions, one opportunity to transform for a just and regenerative future A more sustainable future in which people and the planet can thrive is within our grasp. Creating it will mean e
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Climate·20 March 2024
A new paradigm is gaining increasing attention in the world of nature conservation – ‘rewilding.’ It addresses the urgent need to rebuild ecosystem functioning across our lands, freshwater ecosystems, and seas. Science has shown that less…
ON Network · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·8 November 2023
The Olive Network Exhibition was scheduled to take place at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens this summer, but was postponed due to Covid-19 and is now live online to coincide with the launch of the Olive Network. Within the website you will…
ON Network · 4 min read
Dwelling·23 August 2023
UN-Water and UN Women have published a report outlining a feminist agenda to tackle the world’s water crisis. The report calls for a holistic approach to water use and water conservation, one that brings together women, water, and nature…
ON Network · 2 min read
Climate·15 May 2023
We have a climate emergency. Regardless of where one stands on this issue – this is our ‘inconvenient truth’ . Yet the power to reach people has never been greater. Close to 3.2 billion people today are online, about 2 billion are from…
ON Network · 11 min read
Arts & Culture·31 July 2022
A dozen years ago, Nana Oforiatta Ayim worked in the Africa department at the British Museum. Since then, the Ghanaian art historian, filmmaker, and writer has been deconstructing the very idea of it—or rather, the very colonial idea of a…
ON Network · 15 min read
Arts & Culture·16 March 2026
Capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don't need and too little of what we truly do. This hollow pursuit, achieved at the expense of both people and the planet, has forced us to confront…
ABUNDANCE · 2 min read
Climate·5 March 2026
A recent conversation with Sato Ichiro, Executive Senior Research Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Ogata Research Institute, and Csaba Kőrösi, a Hungarian diplomat who served as President of the 77th session of…
SDG KNOWLEDGE HUB · 5 min read
Climate·9 October 2025
On stage with the pope were a large chunk of a melting glacier from Greenland and tropical ferns. Photograph: Vatican Media/EPA
THE GUARDIAN · 2 min read
Arts & Culture·6 November 2023
It took a thunderstorm for Gordon Hempton to truly appreciate quiet. After a visit home to Seattle, Washington in 1980, the then-27-year-old graduate student found himself tiring of the 3,000km+ slog back to his university in Madison,…
ON Network · 19 min read
Dwelling·30 November 2021
When Susan Nakyung Lee , fresh out of high school, heard of the plan for a global citizen assembly, she was surprised. Surely, she thought, this existed already. A few Google searches later, she realised that what seemed to her like common…
ON Network · 5 min read
Education·19 August 2026
ON SOURCE: FORUM FOR THE FUTURE The Polycrisis Calls for Polysolutions Written by Mareyah Bhatti from Forum for the Future. Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of attending the Food Planet Prize event in Båstad, Sweden. It was a great opportunity to celebrate ambitious food system work from acros
FORUM FOR THE FUTURE · 1 min read
Climate·7 August 2026
By Sophie Grouwels, Forestry Officer, Forest and Farm Facility, FAO
SDG KNOWLEDGE HUB · 4 min read
Climate·26 April 2026
“A silent cry about the climate crisis and a penetrating meditation on what life is. A film full of ideas that resonate deeply, told as a penetrating dream that shakes you awake.“
ON Network · 8 min read
Climate·23 November 2025
“Rich countries, especially the United States, have not only built their empires on fossil fuels and the commodification of food, land and water, but continue to fuel the climate crisis and expand extractive industries in the Global South.…
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH · 3 min read
Climate·16 November 2025
Earth, hessian, oil painting, poetry, voices of reason, ambient sound, scent and Arcadian landscape featuring an imposing structure, abstracted, broken and forgotten, based on the Berlin TV Tower, a symbol of unification.
ON Network · 3 min read
Dwelling·6 October 2025
Frankie lives in a six-bedroom house on the outskirts of Leeds. She is her own landlord, but doesn’t own the house. Instead she is part of a co-operative housing group : together, they have been able to buy the house and then rent it at an…
ON Network · 5 min read
Climate·21 July 2025
The exhibition » Fellow Travellers: Art as a Tool to Change the World « acts as a catalyst for these questions: As a place for possibilities, it offers a platform for artistic projects that demonstrate the benefits of art for society in an…
ZKM KARLSRUHE · 4 min read
Arts & Culture·17 July 2025
These urgent questions lie at the heart of Culture as a Commons, a three-day international forum that brings together 12 selected cultural initiatives from the Netherlands and Italy. In the framework of this gathering at Museion, they will…
MUSEION ACADEMY · 1 min read
Climate·18 June 2025
I have been saying this a lot recently: “At last!” At last, a mainstream film bluntly revealing the plunder of our seas. At last, a proposed ban on bottom trawling in so-called “ marine protected areas ” (MPAs). At last, some solid…
THE GUARDIAN · 5 min read
Arts & Culture·12 May 2025
A new book inviting artists to re-think the climate emergency
ON Network · 3 min read
Climate·18 February 2025
Alfredo Jaar. The End of the World , 2024, installation view, Kesselhaus, KINDL, © Alfredo Jaar / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2024, photo: Jens Ziehe
KINDL - BERLIN · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·19 October 2024
Art can help bridge that understanding of how we are connected to the planetary system’ … an installation image of Future Ours. Photograph: Art 2030
THE GUARDIAN · 5 min read
Arts & Culture·15 August 2024
The character “集” depicts three birds perched on a single tree. As a verb, it encompasses meanings including to gather, converge, collect, or assemble. As a noun, “集” can be translated as “Atlas” — a collection of art, cultural relics, or…
ON Network · 1 min read
Climate·14 February 2024
That’s the starting point of Doughnut Economics, a concept that began on the back of an envelope and is fast becoming a global community of changemakers who are putting regenerative and distributive design into practice – in cities,…
ON Network · 1 min read
Climate·2 December 2023
More than 130 countries signed up to a declaration about food, on the second day of the UN climate summit COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
ON Network · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·15 June 2023
Food is at the heart of many of the world’s environmental, social and economic challenges. The issues – from soil health to public health and how to sustain a growing global population on finite resources – are complex and cannot be solved…
ON Network · 3 min read
Climate·5 January 2023
Four years of consecutive droughts have left families in southern Madagascar helpless and unable to feed themselves. Access to water remains difficult for the region of Androy. Photo: Safidy Andrianantenaina
ON Network · 15 min read
Arts & Culture·7 November 2022
Otobong Nkanga's Unearthed—Sunlight (2021) at Kunsthaus Bregenz, was organised by Art 2030. Photo: Markus Tretter. Courtesy of the artist.
ON Network · 5 min read
Sustainability·4 February 2022
An artwork by Lynn Finnegan, one of nine artists and illustrators from around the world whose work accompanies the themes of the White Paper and Compendium, helping bring to life the opportunities, challenges, pain and beauty of…
ON Network · 4 min read
Feed · 25/09/2026
Now more than ever, as authoritarianism and ecological crises threaten to engulf the planet, a luddite revival must be considered: a going dark in manifold ways and meanings.
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Feed · 16/03/2026
Jun 25, 2025
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Feed · 16/03/2026
A system built on war, exploitation and ecological collapse makes apocalypse feel inevitable — but it doesn’t have to be.
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Feed · 28/01/2026
Climate change, malnutrition, inequality, poverty, ecological degradation. The global challenges we face are so urgent and tricky that we need a solution to match their scale and complexity. This is where system change comes in. We use systems thinking to understand the web of interrelations that create complex problems, anticipate unintended consequences, and identify how and where to take action to meet the SDG goals.
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Feed · 10/01/2026
Degrowth critiques the global capitalist system which pursues economic growth at all costs, causing human exploitation and environmental destruction. It exposes the interconnection of systems of oppression such as capitalism, extractivism, colonialism, and patriarchy. As a social movement, a field of academic research and a practice, degrowth advocates for societies that prioritise social and ecological well-being. It proposes a radical (re)distribution of power, wealth and resources, a reduction in the material size of the global economy, and a shift in common values towards care, solidarity and autonomy. Degrowth means transforming societies to ensure environmental justice and a good life for all within planetary boundaries.
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Feed · 03/12/2025
Welcome to the joint 18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and 11th International Degrowth Conference. It will take place in Oslo (Norway) from the 24th to 27th June 2025. The main theme is: "Building socially just postgrowth futures - linking theory and action".
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Feed · 07/10/2025
It’s not just indifference. It’s an active, and deadly, cavalier attitude towards the lives of others: an example other nations follow, says the Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Feed · 18/06/2025
Jason Hickel on ecology, capitalism, and socialist strategy in the twenty-first century
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Feed · 06/12/2024
Protocinema is a cross-cultural art organization that commissions and presents site-aware art around the world. Based in Istanbul and New York, we produce critical installations of the highest artistic quality and accessible to everyone.
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Feed · 04/12/2024
Wild Renaissance - New Paradigms in Art, Ecology, and Philosophy; Offers a new and original way of understanding the current ecological turmoil through the lens of art, philosophy and ecology. Draws on a new concept of renaissance and proposes a 360° vision on how to dwell on Earth. The role of art and design appear of paramount importance and play a crucial role. French original, 2019. 200 col. illus.
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Feed · 12/10/2024
ONG ecologista: fomentamos el cambio local y global hacia una sociedad respetuosa con el medio ambiente, justa y solidaria.
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Feed · 10/08/2024
ARTS & ECOLOGY Art is the most effective form of rebellion. ~ The Power of Art, Simon Schama Art has the power to move us; to evoke and transform emotions that words often cannot. Art has the power to change narratives, to give a voice to the voiceless, to break rules and find unorthodox ways […]
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Feed · 10/04/2024
Based on the ideas central to Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s work, the Institute for Postnatural Studies proposes a series of experimental activations (performances,...
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Feed · 28/03/2024
Interweaving indigenous knowledge, colonial legacy and ecological urgency. Free exhibition opens 16 February 2024.
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Feed · 09/10/2023
We are in the midst of a global climate and ecological emergency unprecedented in human history.
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Feed · 27/05/2022
We want everyone to have a voice in deciding how to respond to the climate and ecological crisis. That’s why the Global Assembly has two important parts: 1. Core Assembly 2. Community Assemblies Both will seek to answer the question: How can humanity address the climate and ecological…
View in FeedFeed · 29/09/2021
Nearly 400 young climate champions from all over the world are about to flock to Milan for the three days of #Youth4Climate: #DrivingAmbition taking place ahead of Pre-COP26. Tackling in dedicated working groups the core themes of Youth Driving Ambition, Sustainable Recovery, Non-State Actors’ Engagement, and Climate-Conscious Society, the delegates will develop nuanced climate action proposals to be passed on to the world leaders attending the Pre-COP and COP26. Paralleling this meeting of young minds, #All4Climate events approaching climate action from many different angles will convene across the city of Milan and beyond. It’s a lot to keep up with, so we thought we’d provide a brief rundown of each of the days of #DrivingAmbition, September 28-30, flagging some key events we think might be of interest to you. Take a look, get engaged, and join us in letting world leaders know the #WorldIsWatching! For the complete official calendar from the Italian Ministry for Ecological Transition, click here. Get a quick overview of the #DrivingAmbition and #All4Climate events happening in Milan from September 28-30.
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Feed · 26/11/2020
The Gallery of Ecological Art (formerly China gallery) at the British Museum of Decolonised Nature. Image..
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