Ukraine, Russia and the blindness of war
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
"No battle plan survives the first shot." This quote describes the predicament in which both sides of the Russia-Ukraine conflict find themselves.
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The Politics of Overconsumption and Getting the Scale Right
By Wes Jackson, Robert Jensen, Common Dreams
No matter how difficult the transition may be, in the not too distant future we will have to live in far smaller and more flexible social organizations than today's nation-states and cities.
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 1
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium
Can I convince you how miraculously cool seeds are? They are a tiny packet of genetic information, for nothing more than some warmth, light (usually), and some water, will unfurl in time and produce a plant that will net you so much food in volume, that your return on investment would be astronomical.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 3 October 2022
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
Shale will likely tip over in five years, and US production will be down 20 to 30% quickly. When it does—this feels like watching the steam roller scene in Austin Powers.
Cider Planet: Excerpt
By Claude Jolicoeur, Resilience.org
One long-standing question, which is unresolved within the cider community, is that of a good definition of cider.
Why the lights are going out on Britain’s asset-stripped nation
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
Electricity supply, one of the systemic flaws in the UK’s failing economy, looks increasingly like it could fracture this Winter – and without accepting why that model is broken that cannot be avoided.
The rights of nature movement cannot be stopped
By Pamela Haines, Waging Nonviolence
From the Navajo Nation to a small town in Pennsylvania to Ecuador, then across the world, the idea of enshrining the rights of nature is only growing.
Rural Europe Takes Action | The Sámi Environmental Programme
By Josefina Skerk, ARC2020
I am proud of the Sámi parliament for creating the Environmental Programme – called Eallinbiras in Sámi. It is more of a life programme. We are trying to convey the Sámi culture to inspire others to have a more sustainable view on life.
The Green Transition Part 1: The Problem with Green Capitalism
By Robert Raymond, Shareable
What is the dark side of the energy transition — particularly for the Global South and Indigenous communities?
Winter Approacheth
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
I do not want an oil-burning furnace. I can’t afford an oil-burning furnace. I don’t want oil-burning anything to even be.
Global emissions must drop by 50% by 2030
By James R. Martin, The R-word
My point is that if we're going to really have an energy transition it will have to be primarily a transition to a much less energy intensive economy and material culture.
Fraguas: six young people in Spain face two years and a half in prison for rebuilding a town demolished by Franco
By Ter García, Resilience.org
Now Lalo and another five persons face going to jail for two years and a half if they don’t pay nearly 110.000 euros. This is the money that the court of Guadalajara says it will cost for the demolition of the houses they have rebuilt with the same stones with which the original houses were built.
Inequality, the climate crisis, and the frequent flier
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Flying is a privilege enjoyed almost exclusively by a small percentage of the affluent classes. Yet among these classes, aviation results in a large share of personal carbon footprints.
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Putting the Land Back In Climate
By Rob Lewis, Resilience.org
What if there’s another side to climate change, one less concerned with what we put in the atmosphere than what we do to the land, a side which, despite four decades of climate education, has yet to be explained to us?
Kris De Decker: “Low Tech: What, Why and How”
By Nate Hagens, Kris De Decker, The Great Simplification
How does low tech differ from high tech and what does it feel like to live a low tech lifestyle?
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The Living Soil Handbook
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Farmer Jesse Frost shares all he has learned through experience and experimentation with no-till practices on his home farm in Kentucky.
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Princeton University Press
What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet.
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Frankly: Growth until not
By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification
This week's Frankly adds a third perspective to the 'growth critical' conversation - that modern society has a metabolism and momentum and will grow - in non-green ways - until we can't.
Douglas Rushkoff: “The Ultimate Exit Strategy”
By Nate Hagens, Douglas Rushkoff, The Great Simplification
Douglas and I discuss how human behavior interacts with technology and how we have arrived at a place with enormous wealth and income inequality just as society is rapidly approaching biophysical limits.
In extremis: The world at the edge of a cliff
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The Russia-Ukraine conflict saw a major escalation this week. With the world economy on the brink, we're in for a disquieting autumn.
What you need to know about the energy crisis
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
Prices by themselves are not helpful in understanding why the energy crisis has emerged and how it is likely to develop. Richard Heinberg gives an overview that emphasizes systemic causal connections and feedbacks.
Europe’s real-time experiment in energy contraction
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Europe is finding out the hard way that there are no easy substitutes for oil and natural gas.
Meet The Farmer-Bakers Proving Their Skills
By Valérie Geslin, ARC2020
Here in their on-farm bakery, between batches of bread, Sébastien and Fabienne share their views on life as farmer-bakers.