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Episode 56

The Stopwatch of Doom: How the Cult of Productivity Torpedoes Sustainability and Equity (Episode 56 of Crazy Town)

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

Welcome to the dehumanizing world of scientific management, where business gurus and middle managers view workers as resources, and where a cult-like devotion to productivity has invaded almost all facets of daily life.

  • May 19, 2022
Main Hall Montevallo

Democracy Rising 19: Dialogue in Dixie

By Hollie Cost, Resilience.org

  • May 19, 2022
adrienne maree brown

A Great Custodian of the Collective Imagination

By Rob Hopkins, Transition Network

  • May 19, 2022

LATEST ARTICLES

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The Cost of Living Crisis & the Coming Crash

By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website

Driven by fossil fuels, powering new technologies, society (and the global climate) has been completely changed. But like all celebrations, that process is arguably coming to an end; and like all the best parties, those who have had a really good time don’t want it to stop!

The Great Simplification

The Great Simplification – Full Movie

By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification

This 32 minute animation -in 4 Acts - describes the backdrop for The Great Simplification - an economic/cultural transition on our near term horizon.

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Letter From The Farm | A Year In Review

By Mateusz Ciasnocha, ARC2020

One of the key learnings of 2021 is the necessity to think AND act in a systemic and holistic way – a manner that builds bridges rather than breaks them down, or questions existing ones.

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Just Transition Is About Systemic Change

By Dirk Holemans, Green European Journal

It’s important to frame just transition as an overarching framework that can guide us through a systemic transformation to a new social, ecological society that is equitable. It’s not about superficially greening the economy.

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European sleeper trains are waking up

By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance

After a slow and steady decline, the sleeper train – a vital link to more sustainable, connected transport systems – is waking-up and getting back on track in Europe

sharecroppers' home

The Deep Roots of the Racial Wealth Gap—and How We Undo It

By Ericka Taylor, YES! magazine

The growing divide between White wealth and Black wealth is a product of economic systems designed to extract wealth from Black, Indigenous, and other people of color and redirect it to the wealthy, almost uniformly White elite.

Cairo skyline

Environmental Inequalities in Cairo’s Urban Housing Sector

By Haley Parzonko, Undisciplined Environments

Cairo  is an example of the trend of megacities with rapid growth in size and environmental inequality, marked by a dual reality between informal areas with high congestion and pollution levels and lack of green space, and exclusive new high-end desert cities with ample spacing and private access to nature.

Yevgeniya Chirikova in late 2011

Poison for the people — How an exiled activist is countering Russia’s propaganda machine

By Adam Federman, Waging Nonviolence

Because if you stop buying oil, gas and coal from Putin’s Russia it will help you to stop war on Ukraine on the one hand and it will help you to save the climate on the other.

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Healing Grounds: Excerpt

By Liz Carlisle, Resilience.org

I needed to speak to people whose ancestors had experienced the slaughter of their bison herds, the enslavement of their entire family, the brutal exploitation of migratory farm work, or incarceration at the hands of their own government while their crops were left to rot.

It's Time

Onslaught of the Oily Authoritarians

By Stan Cox, City Lights Books

The only realistic course is to protect the electoral process despite all its flaws, ensure universal voting rights, and push harder than ever to make this country what it has never been: a multiracial, pluralistic democracy.

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Attention deficit disorder, the anticapitalist condition

By Laura Basu, Open Democracy

We owe it to each other to create those spaces of active love and healing. Along the way, we can all learn from the ADD brain’s refusal of labour time and capitalist bureaucracy.

Biodiversity Solutions Also Fight Climate Change

By Tara Lohan, The Revelator

It’s not possible, after all, to tackle one crisis without addressing the other. To fight climate change, we need fully functioning ecosystems with healthy populations of native plants and animals.

EDITOR’S PICKS

Sims Hill Shared Harvest CSA

Just… Stop…

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

To effect real change you have to do something to create those changes. Change is work, not theatre. If you want tangible benefits, you have to craft something more tangible than a message.

XR demo

The Uncertain Activist: more thoughts on uncertainty

By David Lambert, Resilience.org

I have taken to heart the insight that possibly, the way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis; that we see this thing we call ‘the climate’ through a window whose frame is itself the product of our toxic culture.

ONLINE COURSE

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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 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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Reclaiming Your Community

By Majora Carter, Penguin Random House

How can we solve the problem of persistent poverty in low-status communities? Majora Carter argues that these areas need a talent-retention strategy, just like the ones companies have.

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A response to William Rinehart: Why lizards love degrowth

By Timothée Parrique, Timothée Parrique blog

In the very same month the IPCC publishes an 8-year in the making, almost 3,000-page report, I find it scientifically insulting that someone dares to cobble a few graphs together in defence of a crackpot hypothesis whose scientific legitimacy has come close to Flat Earth theory.

Episode 79

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 79 Stacy Mitchell

By Vicki Robin, Resilience.org

Stacy Mitchell is co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a national research and advocacy organization that fights corporate control and works to build thriving, equitable communities. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”

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Can ‘Cathonomics’ produce a just and sustainable world?

By Elias Crim, Shareable

Tony Annett’s new book, Cathonomics, argues that our economy has become deadly to many people, precisely because it so often defeats our efforts to work for a common good. He also offers an alternative framework, grounded in the spiritual principles of Catholic social teaching.

Indigenous Futures Network

In times of climate crisis, the future is a territory to defend

By Indigenous Futures Network, 15/15\15

We can regenerate the life systems to which our future is linked. But change must be at the root. Because after every crisis, we don’t want to return to normality, we want to return to the earth.

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Advancing interconnected solutions to the food, energy and finance crises

By Shiney Varghese, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

As the Ukraine-Russia war continues, a special plenary session would bring together a broad range of critical actors in the global food system to advance integrated solutions to protect the food security of the most vulnerable.

Episode 55

It’s the End of the World’s Fair as We Know It: Why Technology Won’t Save Us (Episode 55 of Crazy Town)

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

Explore the diminishing marginal returns of both World’s Fairs and technology in general, and consider what’s next as dreams of a high-tech utopia go the way of the animatronic dinosaurs.

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