https://www.themintmagazine.com Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:40:15 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-The-Mint-Coin-32x32.jpg https://www.themintmagazine.com 32 32 https://www.themintmagazine.com/taking-the-die-out-of-diet/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/taking-the-die-out-of-diet/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:41:26 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136653

Henry Leveson-Gower and Dil Green map potential paths to escape the tyranny of Big Food. The modern food system delivers cheap calories at scale, but at the cost of health, … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/taking-the-die-out-of-diet/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/give-and-take-2/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/give-and-take-2/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:32 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136493

What happens when the same people who once marched in protest suddenly find themselves inside Town Hall? Tanya Zerbian, Soledad Cuevas, Ana Moragues-Faus and Daniel López-García tell the tale of … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/give-and-take-2/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/when-finance-eats-the-world/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/when-finance-eats-the-world/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:31 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136505

In a year when billionaires added trillions to their fortunes, governments slashed health and education budgets to pay creditors, just as climate-fuelled disasters drove hunger and displacement to new highs. … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/when-finance-eats-the-world/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-growing-population/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-growing-population/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:29 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136434

Planting fields with a variety of strains of each plant makes for a resilient crop in the face of global warming. But global markets create other priorities? Nick Easen writes. … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-growing-population/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/trump-risks-a-gold-rush-on-the-high-seas/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/trump-risks-a-gold-rush-on-the-high-seas/#respond Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:46:40 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133086

The United States has neither moral nor legal right to minerals found in the deep ocean. If it tries to take them, others will too. Guy Standing writes. Among the … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/trump-risks-a-gold-rush-on-the-high-seas/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/fear-economy/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/fear-economy/#respond Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:09:36 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133057

Lynne Davis argues that only solidarity can break its grip. On my worldly adventures - perhaps born more of curiosity than any grand trends - I am meeting more and … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/fear-economy/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/all-together-now-2/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/all-together-now-2/#respond Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:52:09 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133047

Dil Green identifies what’s needed for commoning to keep the beat. Commons is a term which gets bandied about - sometimes very loosely, on other occasions rather specifically. I try … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/all-together-now-2/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/a-few-too-many/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/a-few-too-many/#respond Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:31:11 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133037

Is it time to call time on pub closures in the UK? J Mark Dodds warns that we are losing more than our place at the bar. Once the heart … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/a-few-too-many/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/bioeconomically-speaking/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/bioeconomically-speaking/#respond Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:15:17 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133032

Sofia Casas warns of another shade of greenwash. With COP-30 approaching this November in Belém – in the heart of the Amazon – the term "bioeconomy" has become a powerful … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/bioeconomically-speaking/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/waves-of-old-ways/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/waves-of-old-ways/#respond Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:05:40 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133029

David Barkin looks at the swell of ancestral community measures across the Global South to address climate change issues. On a cool evening in Oaxaca, Mexico, the town’s plaza fills … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/waves-of-old-ways/feed/ 0