Rules of engagement

Thirty years on, what does the Narmada Bachao Andolan teach us?

Investors denounce ExxonMobil suit against climate activist-shareholders as an attack on their rights

Shareholder-activists at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility urged Exxon’s board to convince the company’s management …

Fifteen non-profits take fresh legal action against Europe’s biggest plastics project

This marks a new phase in the over three-year long legal battle against INEOS’ ‘Project One’, a €3 billion plastic project …

Climate Warriors: After Greta, now meet Hilda

Hilda Flavia Nakabuye is a 22-year-old Ugandan college student, who recently delivered a powerful speech in Copenhagen on the climate crisis

There’s hope, if we wake up to today’s evolutionary potential

Everyone needs to be fired up with a rage aligned with the feminine principle of care rather than the masculine principle of control

Did economic liberalisation push govt and civil society in to battlefield?

The opening up of India’s economy increased the number of NGOs exponentially, but then…

The renewable energy transition is failing

Renewable energy isn’t replacing fossil fuel energy — it’s adding to it.

A good way to be kinder to elephants is to stop riding them

When animal tourism resumes in Bali after COVID-19, there is an opportunity to do better by the lives of animals

A mistake of judgment

Pioneering though the work has been, judicial activism has restricted the growth of a responsible and independent bureaucracy

Civil society organisations should count on their huge social capital and invest it into future actions

Civil society organisations are often targets of political interference and manipulation, which can limit their ability to operate

How much politics is too much politics for civil society

 Should non-profits contest elections? Should they be identified with parties? 

Portuguese youths sue 33 European governments at EU court in largest climate case ever

Case will constitute what lawyers refer to as a “hard case” & play an important role in other future climate applications

'Relations between non-profits & govt are waning since liberalisation'

In the wake of arrests of 5 human rights activists by Maharashtra police, Down To Earth speaks to activists about what is bringing …