Environmental Justice

David Bollier interviews Janelle Orsi of the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) about their work in the cooperative and solidarity economy space in the San Francisco Bay Area.

OrganaGardens is a landscaping cooperative that uses a unique structure to account for collective ownership as well as mutual care and transformation.

Malik Yakini talks about his life, work, and inspirations working for food sovereignty and social justice in Detroit, MI.

This chapter offers a framework for analyzing the “ecological problem” that should be useful to those seeking to make sense of the economic aspect of the current planetary crisis. Razeto summarizes the crisis, considers the importance and insufficiency of existing approaches at the level of the State and Civil Society, and the difficulty of controlling nature and then offers a “theory of the ecological question” that focuses on the economy and its “mode of action and organization.”

In this chapter Razeto examines a question that has been central for the vast majority of people in the world: the question of development. Like many before him, Razeto questions the meaning of development and the objectives sought, opposing an alternative “desirable development” to the dominant model centered on industrialization, capital accumulation, and structural inequality.