Finding the Mother Tree: Review
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
We must live within nature. We will all be winners when there are no losers. We will all thrive when we recognize that competition will lose to cooperation in every challenge.
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Are There Limits to Economic Growth?
By Richard E. Vodra, Advisor Perspectives
We get a startling overview of a self-directing complex system integrating economics and the physical world in Carey King’s recent book: The Economic Superorganism: Beyond the Competing Narratives on Energy, Growth, and Policy.
Plastics, Plastics Everywhere
By Alex Hertzog, Maura Stephens, System Change not Climate Change
New research shows that as well as harming sea animals from the smallest fish to the largest whales to entire coral reefs, plastics and microplastics are dangerous to human health.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 20 September 2021
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
Brent futures dipped on Friday but held above $75 a barrel, remaining on track for weekly gains of more than 3% thanks to the slow recovery in output after two hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico.
Farming Bounded By Our Biological Boundaries – Part 1
By Stuart Meikle, ARC2020
We must adopt an ecosystem approach to identify sustainable food systems that can exist within our planet’s boundaries, argues Stuart Meikle in the first of a four-part series.
The Colorado River Runs Again
By Lourdes Medrano, YES! magazine
On May 1, 2021, the river once again flowed in its delta thanks to an agreement between the United States and Mexico dubbed Minute 323. Through Oct. 11, a total of 35,000 acre-feet of water (11.4 billion gallons) will be released downstream from Morelos Dam on the U.S.-Mexico border to quench the thirst of this long-withered ecosystem.
The Case for Cooperative Business Ownership
By Geoffrey Holland, Anu Puusa, MAHB
A cooperative is a business enterprise and a social group of members and as such has both business and member community roles.
Democratizing Access To The Tools For Transformation
By Otto Scharmer, Medium
In the face of accelerating social and environmental breakdowns, how can we build our collective capacities for transformation to bring about a just, inclusive, and regenerative society for all?
“It’s a clear signal that the Asian Development Bank is finally, finally moving away from coal.”
By Heinrich Boell Stiftung Staff, Rayyan Hassan, Heinrich Boell Stiftung
In May 2021 the Asian Development Bank (ADB) made headlines around the world with the news to exit coal. This was seen as a victory for civil society, especially to the NGO Forum on ADB, an Asian-led network of 250 civil society organizations, and said to bring much-delayed justice for all the affected communities across Asia affected by coal projects.
Transforming Cape Town’s Covid soup kitchens into spaces of dignity – a community vision
By Sanelisiwe (Mimi) Nyaba, Haidee Swanby, Stefanie Lemke, Agroecology Now!
User-workers of the community kitchen contribute by volunteering, while also dishing up in the process. This way, community members believed, the kitchens are not just giving handouts but also creating a space where people can be empowered to become active agents in this process.
The Negative-Sum Economy
By John Michael Greer, Ecosophia
To be wealthy is to have the things you need and want, the things that support your well-being and enable you to do what you like.
Sensitivity to scale, uniqueness of place and local culture
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
One way to avoid — or at least minimize — the risk that new ‘solutions’ will result in catastrophic and widespread unintended consequences is to limit the scale of experimentation.
Walkability and the culture wars
By Daniel Herriges, Strong Towns
Even if you do take this study's results at face value, it's a stretch to interpret its major takeaway as, "Most Americans don't want walkable places."
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How can we safely collapse systems of domination, and so, flourish?
By Justin Kenrick, Eva Schonveld, Global Tapestry of Alternatives
The climate chaos that we are witnessing makes it inescapably clear that dominating others harms oneself, and that this system of domination will inevitably end—whether through ecological disasters or our collective action.
Hands on the land, heart in community: Returning cultural fires
By Deniss Martinez, Environmental Health News
We know the best way to counteract the destruction of land is to love the land. Love it radically and fiercely. After all, we are the land.
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The New Possible: Visions of Our World beyond Crisis
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.
Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival
By Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers
This is the story of power—humanity’s power over nature and the power of some people over others.
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Ecological Economics For Humanity’s Plague Phase (2020)
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activisim Website
What this paper is exploring is why humanity, but more importantly the people who really should know better – the economists – can’t see the effects that we’re having on the planet.
Neoliberalism is dying – now we must replace it
By James Meadway, Open Democracy
Neoliberalism might be dying, but this is no reason for complacency. Some of what is now happening points to a decisively worse world: digitally enabled authoritarianism and overtly discriminatory government policy, for example.
The Only Long-Range Solution to Climate Change
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
The only real long-range solution to climate change centers on reining in human physical, social, and economic power dramatically, but in ways that preserve human dignity, autonomy, and solidarity.
How to give the land back
By Aaron Fernando, Shareable
The Wiyot Tribe and Cooperation Humboldt are working together to form a type of Community Land Trust (CLT), Dishgamu Humboldt, the first of its kind, to structurally ensure that the Wiyot tribe will maintain decision-making power in this land trust, forever.
Transformation or Gentrification? The Hazy Politics of the 15-Minute City
By Joe Herbert, Degrowth.de
With increasing interest in the concept likely to persist, the most optimistic reading of the 15-minute city is to view it as a hook on which there is potential to attach a transformative urban socio-ecological agenda, but only if competing capitalist interests can be successfully fended off.
Building Community by Buying Nothing
By Lornet Turnbull, YES! magazine
These were the sort of genuine connections that Rebecca Rockefeller and Liesl Clark envisioned back in 2013 when they created Buy Nothing—a gift economy operated on a hyperlocal scale to bring neighbors together through sharing and community.
