Ruth Egeressy
@ruthsustainable.bsky.social
sustainability and behaviour change MSc🌏 #CitizensAssemblies l #ClimateAssembly Interested in participatory and deliberative democracy 🌱Democratic Innovation for a better world 🌱 and 🧘🏻♂️Yoga
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How Wages for Housework sparked an international solidarity movement
How Wages for Housework sparked an international solidarity movement
The 1970s movement paved the way for queer, Black, trans and sex working feminist organising across the world today
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November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
How Wages for Housework sparked an international solidarity movement
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Big Tech And Big Carbon Fueling #COP30 Misinformation, Groups Claim
#climatecrisis
@caadcoalition.bsky.social
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#climatecrisis
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Big Tech And Big Carbon Fueling COP30 Misinformation, Groups Claim
With the COP30 climate conference kicking off in Brazil this week, misinformation and disinformation are swirling.
www.forbes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Big Tech And Big Carbon Fueling #COP30 Misinformation, Groups Claim
#climatecrisis
@caadcoalition.bsky.social
www.forbes.com/sites/emmawo...
#climatecrisis
@caadcoalition.bsky.social
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This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
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I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What if we measured progress not by GDP—but by how well people and the planet are doing? 🌍
A new study led by Club of Rome member Ida Kubiszewski identifies a 20-component indicator to help build global consensus beyond GDP.
Read more➡️ vist.ly/4dadb
#BeyondGDP
A new study led by Club of Rome member Ida Kubiszewski identifies a 20-component indicator to help build global consensus beyond GDP.
Read more➡️ vist.ly/4dadb
#BeyondGDP
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
What if we measured progress not by GDP—but by how well people and the planet are doing? 🌍
A new study led by Club of Rome member Ida Kubiszewski identifies a 20-component indicator to help build global consensus beyond GDP.
Read more➡️ vist.ly/4dadb
#BeyondGDP
A new study led by Club of Rome member Ida Kubiszewski identifies a 20-component indicator to help build global consensus beyond GDP.
Read more➡️ vist.ly/4dadb
#BeyondGDP
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What if collapse is not the end, but the beginning of renewal?
On The Club of Rome #Podcast, Till Kellerhoff talks with @nafeez.bsky.social & Ginie Servant-Miklos about how today’s crises could mark a deep transformation in how humanity lives & organises itself.
🎧 Listen here: vist.ly/4bka8
On The Club of Rome #Podcast, Till Kellerhoff talks with @nafeez.bsky.social & Ginie Servant-Miklos about how today’s crises could mark a deep transformation in how humanity lives & organises itself.
🎧 Listen here: vist.ly/4bka8
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
What if collapse is not the end, but the beginning of renewal?
On The Club of Rome #Podcast, Till Kellerhoff talks with @nafeez.bsky.social & Ginie Servant-Miklos about how today’s crises could mark a deep transformation in how humanity lives & organises itself.
🎧 Listen here: vist.ly/4bka8
On The Club of Rome #Podcast, Till Kellerhoff talks with @nafeez.bsky.social & Ginie Servant-Miklos about how today’s crises could mark a deep transformation in how humanity lives & organises itself.
🎧 Listen here: vist.ly/4bka8
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Im allerletzten Moment vor der Klimakonferenz haben sich die Minister*innen doch noch auf 90 Prozent weniger CO₂ bis 2040 geeinigt – allerdings mit vielen Schlupflöchern und Hintertüren.
EU-Staaten beschließen abgeschwächtes Klimaziel für 2040
Der Ausstoß von Treibhausgasen soll um 90 Prozent im Vergleich zu 1990 sinken. Bis zu fünf Prozentpunkte können Staaten durch Kauf von Emissionszertifikaten im Ausland ausgleichen
www.derstandard.at
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Im allerletzten Moment vor der Klimakonferenz haben sich die Minister*innen doch noch auf 90 Prozent weniger CO₂ bis 2040 geeinigt – allerdings mit vielen Schlupflöchern und Hintertüren.
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As I am one of the climate scientists he is referring to here - and I am a scientist who decided to dedicate her life to working on climate precisely because of how unjustly it disproportionately impacts the poor and vulnerable - let me clarify my rationale and thoughts below. 🧵
Bill Gates defends contentious climate shift
"I'm glad people are listening," he said, before adding that it was hard to convey "nuanced positions nowadays."
www.axios.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
As I am one of the climate scientists he is referring to here - and I am a scientist who decided to dedicate her life to working on climate precisely because of how unjustly it disproportionately impacts the poor and vulnerable - let me clarify my rationale and thoughts below. 🧵
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Do listen in. It became quite, ahem, heated.
NEW EPISODE: Will we survive climate change?
Join our expert panellists as they answer your questions about curbing rising global temperatures and what life could be like in a warmer world.
Listen on your favourite podcast platform: www.lnk.to/AQOSClimateBB
Join our expert panellists as they answer your questions about curbing rising global temperatures and what life could be like in a warmer world.
Listen on your favourite podcast platform: www.lnk.to/AQOSClimateBB
October 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Do listen in. It became quite, ahem, heated.
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How can citizens and journalists hold back authoritarianism, far-right populism and hate?
Join our live event with
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
Join our live event with
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
October 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
How can citizens and journalists hold back authoritarianism, far-right populism and hate?
Join our live event with
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
Join our live event with
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
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America’s super-rich destroying the planet’s safe climate spaces.
Wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%.
Corporations spend $277,000 a year on anti-climate lobbying.
Super rich control political system, strangling life. What's to be done
Wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%.
Corporations spend $277,000 a year on anti-climate lobbying.
Super rich control political system, strangling life. What's to be done
America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam
Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:03 AM
America’s super-rich destroying the planet’s safe climate spaces.
Wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%.
Corporations spend $277,000 a year on anti-climate lobbying.
Super rich control political system, strangling life. What's to be done
Wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%.
Corporations spend $277,000 a year on anti-climate lobbying.
Super rich control political system, strangling life. What's to be done
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We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/
October 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/
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Modern “democracy” was built to protect the rich.
Elections, parties, branches — all systems of domination.
Real democracy means sortition, participation, and people deciding for themselves.
theecologist.org/2025/oct/01/...
Elections, parties, branches — all systems of domination.
Real democracy means sortition, participation, and people deciding for themselves.
theecologist.org/2025/oct/01/...
The power of participation
From Your Party to our movement.
theecologist.org
October 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Modern “democracy” was built to protect the rich.
Elections, parties, branches — all systems of domination.
Real democracy means sortition, participation, and people deciding for themselves.
theecologist.org/2025/oct/01/...
Elections, parties, branches — all systems of domination.
Real democracy means sortition, participation, and people deciding for themselves.
theecologist.org/2025/oct/01/...
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How can YOU help fix the climate crisis? This new guide I researched and created with support from @projectdrawdown.bsky.social will help you find & flex your climate superpowers:
👩⚖️ Citizen
💼 Professional
💵 Investor
✈️ Consumer
🌟 Role Model
Check out jointheshift.earth and let's #MakeSHIFThappen!
👩⚖️ Citizen
💼 Professional
💵 Investor
✈️ Consumer
🌟 Role Model
Check out jointheshift.earth and let's #MakeSHIFThappen!
September 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
How can YOU help fix the climate crisis? This new guide I researched and created with support from @projectdrawdown.bsky.social will help you find & flex your climate superpowers:
👩⚖️ Citizen
💼 Professional
💵 Investor
✈️ Consumer
🌟 Role Model
Check out jointheshift.earth and let's #MakeSHIFThappen!
👩⚖️ Citizen
💼 Professional
💵 Investor
✈️ Consumer
🌟 Role Model
Check out jointheshift.earth and let's #MakeSHIFThappen!
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🎬 Livestreaming Belgium's Permanent Assemblies
Next Tuesday, October 14th, we will fill the Brussels Parliament with democratic innovators from around the globe. Registrations to attend in person are sold out, but you can now join us online!
🔴 Watch the livestream: youtube.com/live/UCxYhnK...
Next Tuesday, October 14th, we will fill the Brussels Parliament with democratic innovators from around the globe. Registrations to attend in person are sold out, but you can now join us online!
🔴 Watch the livestream: youtube.com/live/UCxYhnK...
October 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🎬 Livestreaming Belgium's Permanent Assemblies
Next Tuesday, October 14th, we will fill the Brussels Parliament with democratic innovators from around the globe. Registrations to attend in person are sold out, but you can now join us online!
🔴 Watch the livestream: youtube.com/live/UCxYhnK...
Next Tuesday, October 14th, we will fill the Brussels Parliament with democratic innovators from around the globe. Registrations to attend in person are sold out, but you can now join us online!
🔴 Watch the livestream: youtube.com/live/UCxYhnK...
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Should a Permanent European Citizens’ Assembly be established alongside the European Parliament?
Register now to participate in this this roundtable on October 14th in
Brussels in-person or online!
#CitizensAssembly
Register now to participate in this this roundtable on October 14th in
Brussels in-person or online!
#CitizensAssembly
Democracy in Crisis: Should a Permanent European Citizens’ Assembly Supplement the European Parliament? - European Alternatives
A European Parliament – Democratic Odyssey Roundtable📍 European Parliament, Brussels🗓️ Tuesday 14 October 2025 | 10:00 – 12:00 REGISTER HERE TO PARTICIPATE ON-SITE REGISTER HERE TO PARTICIPATE ONLINE ...
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October 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Should a Permanent European Citizens’ Assembly be established alongside the European Parliament?
Register now to participate in this this roundtable on October 14th in
Brussels in-person or online!
#CitizensAssembly
Register now to participate in this this roundtable on October 14th in
Brussels in-person or online!
#CitizensAssembly
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📚 new open access book: "Climate Assemblies - New Civic Institutions for a Climate-Changed World" 🌍
✅ 25 co-authors examine the state of the field and the reasons behind the growing hope and hype about climate assemblies
✅Free PDF available here 👉🏼 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
✅ 25 co-authors examine the state of the field and the reasons behind the growing hope and hype about climate assemblies
✅Free PDF available here 👉🏼 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
August 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
📚 new open access book: "Climate Assemblies - New Civic Institutions for a Climate-Changed World" 🌍
✅ 25 co-authors examine the state of the field and the reasons behind the growing hope and hype about climate assemblies
✅Free PDF available here 👉🏼 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
✅ 25 co-authors examine the state of the field and the reasons behind the growing hope and hype about climate assemblies
✅Free PDF available here 👉🏼 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Wie stirbt eine #Demokratie? "Nicht durch dramatische Umbrüche, sondern schleichend", schreiben Peter Neumann, Professor für Sicherheitsstudien, & Journalist Richard Schneider in ihrem neuen Buch. Zu hören bei "Lesart" im Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
🎧 www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/extremismus-...
🎧 www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/extremismus-...
Rechtspopulismus - Das Sterben einer Demokratie vollzieht sich schleichend
Extremismus-Forscher Peter Neumann und Journalist Richard Schneider untersuchen in ihrem neuen Buch, wie Rechtspopulisten Demokratien schleichend aushöhlen.
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de
September 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Wie stirbt eine #Demokratie? "Nicht durch dramatische Umbrüche, sondern schleichend", schreiben Peter Neumann, Professor für Sicherheitsstudien, & Journalist Richard Schneider in ihrem neuen Buch. Zu hören bei "Lesart" im Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
🎧 www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/extremismus-...
🎧 www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/extremismus-...
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Manfred Heigl hat 2024 an einem #Bürgerrat in München teilgenommen. In der ersten unserer zwei Video-Podcastfolgen anlässlich der #Verfassungsviertelstunde in Bayern berichtet er von dieser demokratischen Erfahrung.
🎧 Zur Podcast-Folge: youtu.be/cTUUMq4GuO8
🎧 Zur Podcast-Folge: youtu.be/cTUUMq4GuO8
15 Minuten Demokratie: Wie fühlt es sich an, an einem Bürgerrat teilzunehmen?
YouTube video by Mehr Demokratie e.V.
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September 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Manfred Heigl hat 2024 an einem #Bürgerrat in München teilgenommen. In der ersten unserer zwei Video-Podcastfolgen anlässlich der #Verfassungsviertelstunde in Bayern berichtet er von dieser demokratischen Erfahrung.
🎧 Zur Podcast-Folge: youtu.be/cTUUMq4GuO8
🎧 Zur Podcast-Folge: youtu.be/cTUUMq4GuO8
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„One-off assemblies are like one healthy meal. Better than nothing, but it won’t give you a healthy lifestyle. To rebuild trust in democracy, we need something lasting.“
Read @cchwalisz.bsky.social interview with David Van Reybrouck on the future of citizens‘ assemblies.
#CitizensAssembly
Read @cchwalisz.bsky.social interview with David Van Reybrouck on the future of citizens‘ assemblies.
#CitizensAssembly
Democracy’s next wave: A conversation with David Van Reybrouck
From sortition to preferendums, Van Reybrouck speaks with Claudia Chwalisz about why citizens must be at the heart of 21st-century democracy
substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM
„One-off assemblies are like one healthy meal. Better than nothing, but it won’t give you a healthy lifestyle. To rebuild trust in democracy, we need something lasting.“
Read @cchwalisz.bsky.social interview with David Van Reybrouck on the future of citizens‘ assemblies.
#CitizensAssembly
Read @cchwalisz.bsky.social interview with David Van Reybrouck on the future of citizens‘ assemblies.
#CitizensAssembly
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📅 Mark your calendars! This November 2025, the 13th World Forum for Democracy takes place in Strasbourg, France. The theme is revitalizing democracy and will focus on innovative ways to increase citizen involvement and build stronger more resilient democratic societies worldwide
#WorldForum2025
#WorldForum2025
July 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
📅 Mark your calendars! This November 2025, the 13th World Forum for Democracy takes place in Strasbourg, France. The theme is revitalizing democracy and will focus on innovative ways to increase citizen involvement and build stronger more resilient democratic societies worldwide
#WorldForum2025
#WorldForum2025
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Is there more public support for climate policies when the public directly participates in climate policymaking? Professor Goda Perlaviciute’s latest paper looks into how and why public participation can increase social acceptance of pro-environmental policies:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Is there more public support for climate policies when the public directly participates in climate policymaking? Professor Goda Perlaviciute’s latest paper looks into how and why public participation can increase social acceptance of pro-environmental policies:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Huge thanks to Dr @ignaciogiuffre.bsky.social for this insightful review of The Collaborative Constitution @cambup-law.cambridge.org in the UTLJ. Great essay comparing deliberative and collaborative constitutionalism, available open access on SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
May 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Huge thanks to Dr @ignaciogiuffre.bsky.social for this insightful review of The Collaborative Constitution @cambup-law.cambridge.org in the UTLJ. Great essay comparing deliberative and collaborative constitutionalism, available open access on SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Thanks to Maris Köpcke for reviewing my article "Strong Constitutionalism and Deliberative Democracy" at @jotwell.bsky.social!
juris.jotwell.com/justice-demo...
juris.jotwell.com/justice-demo...
Justice, Democracy, and Institutional Design - Jurisprudence
Ignacio Guiffré, Strong Constitutionalism and Deliberative Democracy: Inconsistencies in Rawls, Dworkin, and Alexy, 21 Int’l J. Const. L. 1273 (2023).Maris KöpckeThe best answers to the questions “who...
juris.jotwell.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Thanks to Maris Köpcke for reviewing my article "Strong Constitutionalism and Deliberative Democracy" at @jotwell.bsky.social!
juris.jotwell.com/justice-demo...
juris.jotwell.com/justice-demo...
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With the LOSLAND project, @mehrdemokratie.bsky.social and @rifs-potsdam.bsky.social have supported local authorities throughout Germany in shaping a future fit for their grandchildren with mini-publics. The English version of the project brochure is now available
www.rifs-potsdam.de/en/output/pu...
www.rifs-potsdam.de/en/output/pu...
September 4, 2025 at 7:47 AM
With the LOSLAND project, @mehrdemokratie.bsky.social and @rifs-potsdam.bsky.social have supported local authorities throughout Germany in shaping a future fit for their grandchildren with mini-publics. The English version of the project brochure is now available
www.rifs-potsdam.de/en/output/pu...
www.rifs-potsdam.de/en/output/pu...