Humanity in the patchwork of life
By Julia Steinberger, Medium.com
This story is on borrowed time. And it’s just a part of a story, a piece of human and living patchwork. Maybe you can borrow it, and make it part of your story too?
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Building Black Wealth: Understanding the Limits of Black Capitalism
By Robert Raymond, Shareable
Can Black liberation be achieved through individual successes within capitalism — through Black capitalism — as Booker T. Washington suggested? Or can true liberation for Black people in the United States only emerge through a collective struggle against racial capitalism?
Denmark | Re-Scaling the Rural
By Louise Kelleher, ARC2020
Therefore, in addressing contemporary dilemmas, we must understand that academia, rural sociologists, architects, policymakers – and anyone who enjoys the privilege of speaking on behalf of ‘others’ – should make every effort to involve those who really struggle on the ground: the artists, the small-scale farmers, the young students, and the minorities who live precariously in rural territories.
Wixárika community takes back financial autonomy in historic vote
By Angelica Almazan, Tracy L. Barnett, Esperanza Project
After four years of struggle, the Wixárika community of San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán in Mezquitic, Jalisco, will directly receive federal resources to manage amongst themselves without the intervention of local officials or political parties.
Greed over Need: Why Neoliberalism Sucks and How It Sabotages Community (Episode 61 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Sheesh! It’s time for something entirely different to replace neoliberalism – maybe “paleoprogressivism?” Calling all wordsmiths!
Jason Bradford: “A Hybrid Path to the Future of Farming”
By Nate Hagens, Jason Bradford, The Great Simplification
On this episode, Jason Bradford, who is an author, activist, farmer, and teacher, talks about the energy intensity of our modern industrial agriculture system.
Learning, not diamond-class carbon markets, is the bridge to landscape scale regeneration
By Isabel Carlisle, Paul Pivcevic, The Bioregional Learning Centre
Changing systems is never hands off: you have to become part of the system. Changing systems has the potential to change everything and everyone implicated in the system.
Set It Back: Moving Levees to Benefit Rivers, Wildlife and Communities
By Josephine Woolington, The Revelator
Removing dams is one thing, but thousands of levees also restrict rivers in the United States — and they’re not working as intended.
Shedding our Fossil Fuel Suit
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
One thing we know for certain about fossil fuels is that they are a finite resource on this planet—slowly developed in select locations over hundreds of millions of years and being used about a million times faster than the rate of production.
Ten Little Euphemisms: What Do They Portend for Climate Policy?
By Joel Stronberg, illuminem
Like an environmental impact study, a federal rulemaking can take several years to complete. Legal challenges can extend the overall process by years.
Seed to Wealth
By Uche Isieke, Resilience.org
The Rural Watch Africa Initiative (RUWAI) Seed To Wealth program is helping rural farmers in Nigeria to achieve sustainable income for livelihoods.
What does ‘regenerative investment’ mean now that Gaia is changing the rules of the game?
By Isabel Carlisle, Paul Pivcevic, The Bioregional Learning Centre
Unless we can learn and adapt faster than the rate of global systems change, our viability—the basic necessities for human thriving (nested within the imperative of thriving ecosystems and biodiversity) will dwindle to the point at which they cannot sustain us.
Community Land Trusts as a Proactive Model for Post-Capitalist Sustainable New Local Development
By Jon Hanzen, Medium.com
The sociological relevance of a C.L.T. is in developing a community orientation for living a life aligned with autonomous Degrowth and the promotion of New Local Post-Capitalism.
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Growing a Revolution: Excerpt
By David R. Montgomery, Resilience.org
The promise of conservation agriculture to bring life back to the land and support biodiversity both above and belowground should appeal to environmentalists and farmers alike. For like it or not, a large part of nature will be what lives on farms, because we now use more than a third of the world’s ice-free land area for growing crops and raising animals.
The People vs. Petrocracy
By Stan Cox, City Lights Books
Whether it’s carried out by a local movement such as the L.A. Bus Riders Union or continent-spanning drives like the Native campaigns against Big Oil and Gas, no single effort can snuff out fossil fuel extraction and consumption on its own. The mulitplication of such efforts is therefore essential.
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The Living Soil Handbook
By Jesse Frost, Chelsea Green Publishing
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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Warriors and merchants
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
So I think there may still be further opportunities for merchant self-landlords to build more renewable and regenerative local economies within and against the structures of the warrior landlord state.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 84 Douglas Rushkoff
By Vicki Robin, Douglas Rushkoff, Resilience.org
Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. Before our season break, enjoy this casual chat between Douglas and Vicki.
The Degrowth conundrum
By Ted Trainer, Resilience.org
By becoming involved in the many emerging local initiatives activists are likely to be in the most effective position to acquaint participants and onlookers with the need to dump capitalism and build local needs-driven economies under local control.
Oops! U.S. oil and gas exports fuel domestic price rise
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The oil and gas industry got U.S. export restrictions lifted in the last decade promising that there would be so much production that the United States would have plenty for domestic use and export. Rising prices of oil products and natural gas have Americans rethinking that policy.
ROSCAs: A Model for Sustainable Economic Development
By Natalie Holmes, Post-Growth Institute
Women in small communities across the world are building resilient economic systems that nurture solidarity, equity, and trust. A project in Toronto aims to bring their wisdom to the public realm.
The 1970s Again?
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
Are the 2020s just like the 1970s? If only! If our problems now were on the same scale as they were then, we would have a much better chance of solving them.