By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
A new report from Earth Scientist David Hughes seriously undermines rosy long-term forecasts made by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) for U.S. oil and natural gas from shale deposits
By Tom Prugh, Resilience.org
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
By Jane K. Brundage, Esperanza Project
The Supreme Court of Mexico announced two decisions last month that protect the human right to corn biodiversity — achieved over centuries by peasant communities in Mexico, becoming a main staple of the country’s diet.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
In this post and the next, I aim to lay out some issues about property relations by sketching how they might work in a semi-autarkic rural community or region within a small farm future.
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
Crude prices ended little changed on Friday after erasing earlier gains on growing worries that rising coronavirus cases and a new variant could reduce global oil demand.
By Vicki Robin, Pat McCabe, Resilience.org
Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
In starting to build an economy that prioritizes sustainability and justice, there will be uncountable opportunities to contribute, share, and reconfigure how we go about daily living—and some of those opportunities might just turn out to be deeply fulfilling compared to the rat race of continuous growth.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
"Empowerment" is a buzzword for our age. But when does empowerment mean catastrophic societal risk?
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
"Plastic" is a beautifully written, intricate mosaic that weaves memoir, poetry, cultural and scientific history, chemistry, biography, etymology, journalistic reportage and self-reflection into a penetrating rumination on humanity’s relationship with plastic.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
In that paradise of capitalist productivity, who besides Jeff Bezos will still have enough income to fill their shopping carts?
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
Self-possession implies property in some sense – being able to claim a personal right to generate wellbeing from the world we share with other people and organisms.
By John Foran, Resilience.org
The winners of COP 26 were the indefatigable voices of civil society, whose actions were loud and clear: on the final Friday, many, many organizations walked out of the COP in protest, reminded me of the walkout I witnessed and took part in at COP 19 in Warsaw in 2013.
By Vicki Robin, Susan Campbell, Resilience.org
Since 1967, Dr. Susan Campbell has been a couple’s therapist, relationship coach, speaker, workshop leader, trainer of professional coaches, college professor, certified Radical Honesty trainer, and founding teacher of the Getting Real work. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Joel Stronberg, illuminem
Well, it finally happened. An infrastructure bill has found its way onto a president’s desk for signing. Affectionately called the BIF in the halls of Congress and along the K Street corridor where the cognoscenti congregate, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework was truly that—bipartisan.
By Stan Cox, Seattle Times
Ending the extraction of fossil fuels from the Earth while achieving material sufficiency, equity and justice would move us a long way toward the more livable future that the people who gathered outside COP26 — along with billions of others around the world — are demanding and are standing ready to create.
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
And so I leave Glasgow not optimistic or pessimistic, but infinitely more determined. And feeling like the power, the flow, the surge of Friday and Saturday’s tsunamis will carry us forward. I feel it at my back, I feel it in my stomach, and I will feel it forever.
By David Graeber, David Wengrow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.
By Philip Clayton, Kelli M Archie, Jonah Sachs, Evan Steiner, One Project
The New Possible offers twenty-eight unique visions of what can be, if instead of choosing to go back to normal, we choose to go forward to something far better.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Some familiar metals just moved to a critical minerals lists in the United States as supply chain difficulties made even nickel and zinc supplies problematic. Will bringing manufacturing "back home" really solve the problem?
By Ted Trainer
Advocates for a Green New Deal are for a collection of admirable goals which it is usually taken for granted can be achieved within a capitalist economy and while the pursuit of economic growth continues. Here is an indication of the main reasons why these assumptions are totally mistaken.
By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul
We cannot continue consuming cheap goods imported from countries and then criticize them for burning fossil fuels. It’s time to wake up and recognize that living on renewable energy will require a totally different lifestyle from the one we’ve been living.
By Yavor Tarinski, Resilience.org
It is time for the radical democratization of cities, in order for a meaningful and resourceful plan for action from the grassroots to be initiated. Anything less than this is simply a waste of time.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
I firmly believe in the virtues of laziness. I would see a return to economic un-productivity. Happily, I also doubt wage-work will survive as we are forced to focus on meeting our own needs using less transport and fewer resources.
By Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh, George Monbiot, Kevin Anderson, Democracy Now
Let's just stop producing this great tidal wave of consumer goods. And let’s find other ways of measuring quality of life...