House Divided
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
We are told we are divided. The narrative of division reinforces white male privilege by setting us against ourselves and not them.
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Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022 in review
By Alicia Miller, Sustainable Food Trust
Our conversations at the ORFC are so valuable, especially as we move forward in a world that sits on a tipping point. We need to share these conversations with people outside our relatively small circle of believers.
Living without ‘machines’
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
How remote my own life is from taking “responsibility for my own material needs”, and how unskilled I am for that life—to the point where even if I wanted to, or needed to, I’m not sure how I would acquire the skills I needed for it.
Against Enclosure: The Commoners Fight Back
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
In these and many other battles, commoners heroically fought to preserve their land and rights, but they were unable to stop the growth of a highly-profitable industry that was supported physically by the state and legally by the courts. As elsewhere, capital defeated the commons.
There is Unrest in the Urban Forest
By Daniel Herriges, Strong Towns
The truth is that high urban density and abundant housing are entirely compatible with a lush tree canopy.
How we put out the fire
By Green European Journal Staff, Kim Stanley Robinson, Green European Journal
Like Dante in the inferno, for humanity in the first decades of the 21st century, the only way is through. In The Ministry for the Future, writer Kim Stanley Robinson imagines that path, telling the story of a world that somehow manages to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
Coal and trucks pushed US ‘further off track’ for climate targets in 2021
By Josh Gabbatiss, Carbon Brief
US emissions surged by 6.2% last year, boosted by a renewed reliance on coal power amid soaring natural gas prices, according to the Rhodium Group.
Agroecology and Community Feminism: Nurturing Territories
By Alejandra Guzman Luna, Agroecology Now!
This potential to reproduce collective life is precisely the aspiration of community feminisms, but it is also the aspiration of agroecology!
Educate, Animate, Agitate, and Propagate Transition in a Perilous Century
By Michael Lewis, Resilience.org
How might we collaborate to design a highly interactive and creative online learning environment to share, in a popular, accessible format what we have been learning over the 8 years?
Catching the sun: How communities create their own people-powered solar solutions
By Lonny Grafman, Joshua M. Pearce, Shareable
The following is excepted from To Catch the Sun: Inspiring Stories of Communities Coming Together to Harness Their Own Solar Energy, and How You Can Do It Too! by Lonny Grafman and Dr. Joshua M. Pearce.
Life in a Degrowth Economy and Why You’ll Love It
By Erin Remblance, Medium.com
We can either choose degrowth and actively work towards it, or we choose collapse by continuing with business as usual.
Social Cohesion Is Vital, and We’re Losing It
By Richard Heinberg, Common Dreams
My purpose in this essay is to survey (1) the emerging understanding of social cohesion and its importance, (2) what threatens it in the United States today, and (3) what might prevent a national crack-up.
Black Farmers Are Rebuilding Agriculture in Coal Country
By Natalie Peart, YES! magazine
Jason Tartt, a farmer in West Virginia, says the Mountain State is fertile territory for honey production and maple and fruit orchards in the flood plains. Tartt, who is Black, sees his role as both developing economic opportunity through farming and supporting other Black farmers in West Virginia.
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Sand talking: can indigenous wisdom save the world?
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
if indigenous thinking is truly going to save the world it’ll be a long-haul thing in which people learn or relearn how to become indigenous to their local place in locally specific ways.
Colombian fishers are fighting for their rights and protection of vital wetlands
By Daniel Henryk Rasolt, Climate Home News
In November, on the banks of the calm, reflective waters of the Cascaloa Ciénaga, a floodplain lake extending 12,000 hectares (120 sq km) in northern Colombia, a group of traditional fishers met.
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The Dawn of Everything
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.
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.
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Now Published: ‘The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking’
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
It's been more a year and a half in the making, but I'm pleased to announce the release of my new book, The Commoner's Catalog for Changemaking: Tools for the Transitions Ahead!
Clouds in Paper
By Robert Wanalo, Medium.com
Yes, there is need for a more holistic kind of economics, but alongside that, there needs to be a cultured recognition of how interdependent this field is with other forms of study and experience.
Living on the Edge: Excerpt
By Celine-Marie Pascale, Resilience.org
Economic inequality has forced millions of people into lives that are unsustainable. Low-wage workers from across the country share their thoughts on a better life.
Our ancestors worked less and had better lives. What are we doing wrong?
By Ståle Wig, Open Democracy
What should be the characteristics of valuable work in the 21st century, both the type that happens in an office and outside it? How should we work in an age where corporate fossil fuel extraction and private consumption is ruining the planet?
Degrowth is about global justice
By Green European Journal Staff, Jason Hickel, Green European Journal
The only people that are against these ideas are the capitalist class. The obstacle is not ordinary people. The obstacle is capital. That’s the terrain we need to be fighting on.
Energy Transition and Economic Sufficiency: Introduction
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, Clifford W. Cobb, Resilience.org
We need to work out new ways of living—on individual, local, regional, national, and international scales—to prosper without economic growth and to develop our human potential without robbing the opportunities of future generations.