By Clifford Dean Scholz, Green Hand Initiative
Despite the fact that the world of the unnamed vastly exceeds the extent of the named world, most people choose to inhabit a consciousness bounded by the naming of things.
By Jan Juffermans, Resilience.org
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
By Natasha Seegert, Solutions Journal
Mitchell Thomashow’s most recent book, To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning, arrives when we need it most.
By Marc Huninilowycz, Ensia
Ultimately, the goal of lowering our carbon footprint at home is to reduce our energy consumption while taking embodied carbon into consideration.
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
Prices, which hit their highest in nearly a year the previous week, posted their first weekly decline of 2021 last week.
By 10+ indigenous authors, Indigenous World Views
While the practices 'sustainable farming' promote are important, they do not encompass the deep cultural and relational changes needed to realize our collective healing.
By Liz Theoharis, Tom Dispatch
After all, the best hope of successfully navigating the crises of 2021 and beyond must involve King’s dream of building a multi-racial fusion movement to reconstruct society from the bottom up.
By Yavor Tarinski, Resilience.org
Throughout his life, prophetic American philosopher Murray Bookchin created social ecology as a comprehensive social program for the challenges of our present era.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
Chapters 1 and 2 of my book tell a story about how our current modern global civilization has got itself into a mess by disregarding some such factors that complicate its tale of endless self-improvement.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
We are having worldwide fight not over our view of "the facts", but over what constitutes "the facts." It has ever been thus, philosopher Paul Feyeraband tells us. It's just that now that fight is breaking out into the open and disrupting our lives and our institutions without a clear way to resolve it.
By Kayla Wiles, Purdue University
It’s not just to hide clutter anymore – add “saving the planet” to the reasons you leave the camera off during your next virtual meeting.
By Ursula Billington, ARC2020
The original Street Goat concept focused on turning disused land into productive space: bringing goats in to clear scrub, improving sustainability whilst providing a workable model for non-intensive urban dairy production.
By Corey J.A. Bradshaw, Daniel T. Blumstein, Paul R. Ehrlich, The Conversation
The research published today reviews more than 150 studies to produce a stark summary of the state of the natural world.
By Derrick Gentry, The Owl Light News
So, what kind of a future does this book envision, and how does it differ from the past and the present?
By Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, Macska Moksha Press
Repairing the land is directly linked to repairing a way of life. Not just an ecosystem is being restored, but “home.”
By Robert Jensen, MerionWest
Whatever the future of this broken world, today we can attend to the work of repair and restoration. That does not require hope in what is to come but, rather, a belief in our ability to manage our lives without hierarchy and a faith in each other’s capacity for mutuality.
By FAO, FAO
This handbook is written for “sustainable food systems innovators” by a group of innovators from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe who are leading initiatives to grow, share, sell and consume more sustainable foods in their local contexts.
By New Perennials Publishing
This anthology is the first project in the New Perennials Publishing venture. Our goal is to provide thoughtful analyses on crucial social/ecological questions, all at no cost to readers.
By Keiko Yokoyama, Resilience.org
Dickens' story embodies the nature of contemporary economic problems which we face, in terms of interest, debt traps and the meaning of the financial economy for both the haves and the have-nots.
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
There is now a huge opportunity to scale up this kind of building, while also bringing a decent living to farmers from a crop that is environmentally sustainable to grow.
By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
If going for zero succeeds as it has in Australia, Vietnam, Taiwan and New Zealand, then Canadians will live their lives normally with vaccine programs as part of the solution — as opposed to the only solution.
By R. Strand, Z. Kovacic, S. Funtowicz, L. Benini, A. Jesus, European Environment Agency
Economic growth is closely linked to increases in production, consumption and resource use and has detrimental effects on the natural environment and human health.
By Dennis Schep, ROAR Magazine
In the countryside, one lives on the means of production, making food and energy sovereignty that much easier to achieve.
By Ruby Irene Pratka, Shareable
The pandemic has created many challenges for skills exchanges and other sharing initiatives that rely on person-to-person contact.