By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The question of consciousness continues to devil us. If consciousness is distributed throughout the universe, then its appearance in humans is just one manifestation. Does it matter one way or the other how we think about this question? I think it does profoundly.
By Justin Mikulka, DeSmog Blog
By Joe Brewer, Medium
By Bart Anderson, Resilience
A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (video) // Could a GND Make Us Happier People? // Meet Rhiana Gunn-Wright, An (African-American) Architect Behind the GND // Degrowth: a theory of radical abundance
By Otto Scharmer, Medium
These three axial shifts, political, economic, and educational, are replacing the traditional 20th-century public discourse with a new axis of conversation and thought that supports a new avenue for societal renewal.
By Manchester Climate Monthly Staff, Manchester Climate Monthly
The Environmental movement is heavily white and middle class. Both of which we are not. There is an uncomfortableness about entering that space.
By Tom Llewellyn, Shareable
Libraries of Things are both starting to expand to multiple locations, and also connecting with other similar or complementary organizations to form local and regional networks.
By Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Democracy Now!
Thirty years ago, in 1989, Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature, the first book about climate change for a general audience. He has just published a new book; it’s titled Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
By Katherine Walla, Food Tank
On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Executive Director of Kanbe’s Markets Maxfield Kaniger talks about the market’s model to reduce food waste and food insecurity.
By George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence
According to the latest report from the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the Nordics are once again in the top tier of the World’s Happiest People.
By Ugo Bardi, Cassandra's legacy
But fossil fuels are doomed by depletion in any case, so what sense does it make investing the few resouces we still have in a technology that doesn't have a future? In the end, CCS is mainly a failure of the imagination: we can and we should do much better than sweeping the carbon underground.
By Russell Arben Fox, In media res
Socialism is the bogeyman that conservatives of all stripes find easy to associate with all that distorts or corrupts those thinks they, in theory at least, hold most dear: namely, civil society, and the goods which social interactions in and through one's community, church, and family make possible.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
A happy International Day of Peasant’s Struggle to you. Talking of which, I’m still struggling away trying to write my book about peasants while the rest of the farm crew are up in London protesting about government inaction on climate change, which means I’m having to do a bit of proper work as well for a change.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Our new framework – the Triad of Commoning -- focuses on the commons in three interrelated aspects – the social, the political (peer governance), and the economic (provisioning).
By Chaitanya Kumar, Gurpreet Bola, Open Democracy
As two social justice activists, the narrative around movement-led political action is heartening. It opens up the opportunity to practice intersectional policy making that has been central to racial justice movements for decades.
By Jeremy Lent, Patterns Of Meaning blog
I believe that hope has a crucial role in healing, and in driving our engagement in effecting the deep transformation we need.
By Jeremy Lent, Patterns of Meaning
Studies have shown that, once 3.5% of a population becomes sustainably committed to nonviolent mass movements for political change, they are invariably successful. That would translate into 11.5 million Americans on the street, or 26 million Europeans. We’re a long way from that, but is it really impossible?
Local Futures
This short film introduces the issue to a broad audience in a catchy, humorous way, and a detailed factsheet covers the extent and harm of insane trade in greater depth and encourages people to take positive action towards supporting local economies.
By David R. Montgomery, W.W. Norton
In Growing a Revolution, geologist David R. Montgomery travels the world, meeting farmers at the forefront of an agricultural movement to restore soil health.
By Luis Razeto Migliaro, Grassroots Economic Organizing
The road from the reality of poverty to the solidarity economy is not opened by the poor alone in their efforts to address their needs and problems.
By Nathan Thanki, Open Democracy
To truly step up to the plate and play their part in a resurgent, ecologically-minded global justice movement, groups in the North will have to put meat on the bones of the system change slogan by articulating clear alternatives.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The strange truth about one of the world's largest oil exporters is that it has been planning for a post-oil society since the discovery of its oil resources. Norway's move to protect sensitive arctic areas is just the latest example of how Norwegians think about our energy future.
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
Of course the economic crisis was fundamental to the evolution of alternative economics in Greece. Although some thinkers have long advocated other ways of using and running currencies, most barter systems arise in times of upheaval where trust in the banks is eroded or they withdraw liquidity.
By Fergal Finnegan, Niamh McCrea, openDemocracy
A healthy participatory democracy relies on forms of community development that support effective mobilisation at the local level and encourage advanced capacities for democratic decision making and critical thinking.
By George Monbiot, The Guardian blog
By rolling back the state, neoliberalism was supposed to have allowed autonomy and creativity to flourish. Instead, it has delivered a semi-privatised authoritarianism.