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Episode 62

Buying and Dying: How Online Shopping Grew from a Small Weed Deal into a Global Environmental and Societal Disaster (Episode 62 of Crazy Town)

By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org

Now that online shopping and the technology supporting it have ramped up commercialization and supercharged consumerism, we’re facing existential crises.

  • June 30, 2022
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Light posting from 30 June through 11 July

By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org

  • June 30, 2022
Carolina Textile District

This Southern Appalachian town uses co-ops to build new communities around old industries

By Jeffrey Howard, Shareable

  • June 29, 2022

LATEST ARTICLES

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Standing at the edge of change

By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul

The world’s population of humans stands at the edge of rapid change and the future appears unimaginable.

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Reconceptualising boundaries

By Giorgos Velegrakis, Undisciplined Environments

In this short intervention, we bring a critical social science perspective to the Planetary Boundaries framework through the notion of societal boundaries and aim to provide a more nuanced understanding of the social nature of thresholds, one that it has the potential to offer guidelines for a just, social-ecological transformation.

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Keeping cool without costing the earth

By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance

This is one of the greatest challenges for rapid transition in our warming world: as temperatures rise, and extreme heat events become more frequent and severe, how can we keep cool without costing the Earth?

A Small Farm Future

City of the dead

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

To blow off a few cobwebs, I decided to spend a couple of days hiking a part of the Ridgeway, which has been in use for around 5,000 years and is supposedly Britain’s oldest road.

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A review of Ralph Meima’s Inter States trilogy

By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press

Set in the eastern United States in the late fall of 2040, the novels chronicle five crucial weeks in the lives of migrants fleeing climate-driven hardships and political leaders doing their best to manage America’s tumble into history's dustbin.

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Five takeaways from the Harvard Ecological Spiritualities Conference

By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism

So even while there were beautiful reminders of our connection to nature at this conference—talks, posters, and so on—there was, and will continue to be, far more reminders of our broken relationship, which Gaians and other ecologically spiritually minded folk should, and I hope will, continue to work toward healing.

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Global Public Law and Climate Change: Evolve or Die

By Thomas Boudreau, MAHB

In essence, GPL, in the first instance, is based upon the fundamental necessity for an international legal order that ensures the self-preservation of nations and nature in the Anthropocene.

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‘Food for Free’

By Paul Mobbs

The 1970s surge in ecological awareness saw many books published on our relationship with the natural world. ‘Food for Free’, by Richard Mabey, was published fifty years ago in 1972.

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Is it time to ration energy?

By Laura Basu, Open Democracy

In Bookchin’s view, freedom wasn’t about doing whatever the heck we want and letting others clean up the mess. Real freedom was the freedom to collectively determine how to satisfy our needs in a precious and finite world.

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Is universal basic income part of a just transition?

By John Feffer, Foreign Policy In Focus

Instead of focusing so many human resources on ensuring that the well-off do not receive benefits, the universal character of UBI guarantees that no one who needs help is left out.

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Power: Chapter 4. Power in the Anthropocene

By Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers

With fossil fuels and electrification, and thus greater mobility and instant communications, we have indeed become a human “hive.”

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The Energy Bulletin Weekly 27 June 2022

By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin

Headlines for the week of  June 20 - June 26

EDITOR’S PICKS

Iron Man

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.

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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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Think Resilience Course

By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute

Think Resilience Lesson 16: Globalization

By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute

Think Resilience Lesson 6: Political & Economic Management

By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org

Think Resilience Lesson 5: Pollution

By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org

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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.

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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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The armed lifeboat

By Nick Buxton, Transnational Institute

Militarised adaptation to climate breakdown is akin, as US journalist Christian Parenti argues, to the politics of the ‘armed lifeboat’ that seeks to secure the wealth of the few while training guns on everyone else.

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We Are The Economy

By Amanda Janoo, Post-Growth Institute

Once we see that we are the economy, we realize we can change it — and when we change it, we change the world.

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?

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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.

Episode 61

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!

Bioregioning

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.

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