Brian Kaller's daughter several years ago on the Burren, County Clare.

A different kind of childhood

By Brian Kaller, Restoring Mayberry

If you ever wanted to see what the world might look like after the Tribulation, you could do worse than visit the Burren land on the Atlantic coast of Ireland. ... the Burren has only rock, with thin soil in the cracks –a rippling moonscape of pale hills that stretches to the sea, with few trees to slow the screaming Atlantic winds. It’s lovely to visit, but living here would seem to us like being marooned on an alien planet, and raising children unthinkable.

  • June 25, 2019

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Peak Oil Review: 24 June 2019

By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, Peak-Oil.org

Until last Thursday, the oil markets largely ignored the increasing tensions between the US and Iran, including the attacks on six oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz. Then Iran downed an unmanned US surveillance drone, and oil prices soared on the possibility that a war which could potentially halt the 18 million b/d of oil exports was imminent. After a day of vacillation, Washington backed off a retaliatory attack on Iran, allowing the situation to cool.

  • June 24, 2019
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When software rules the world

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

More and more of our daily routine is being turned over to software. Is that wise in every case? Is there a limit to how much power we should give to software over us?

  • June 23, 2019
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Lawns to the Rescue

By Vaidila Satvika, Resilience

It's an amazing experiment to leave a lawn alone for a couple months and to watch what happens. Nature comes back fast. Trees, flowers, and all the critters return.

  • June 21, 2019
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Survival Stories: How Do we Write our Own?

By Gabrielle Lipton, Global Landscapes Forum

In other words, making business cases for better behavior around climate change won’t evoke the amount of change needed; but engaging people’s sacred values first – and then showing that there might be resulting economic benefits – will.

  • June 21, 2019
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Agroecology: Key to Agricultural Resilience and Ecosystem Recovery

By Staff, IATP, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Agroecology is a transformative approach that can galvanize a just transition away from a destructive conventional agriculture and food system to one that builds agricultural resilience, rebuilds ecosystems, supports localized, fair food systems and strengthens local communities.

  • June 20, 2019
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Climate Politics/Capitol Light (10)

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

Low prices for wind, solar, and battery storage technology will result in nearly half of the world’s electricity coming from zero-emission energy resources by the middle of the century, according to Bloomberg/NEF’s latest projections.

  • June 20, 2019
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A Bold Agenda for Treating Land as a Commons

By David Bollier, David Bollier blog

The report, “Land for the Many:  Changing the Way our Fundamental Asset is Used, Owned and Governed,” lays out a rigorous, comprehensive plan for democratizing access and use of land.

  • June 20, 2019
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Soft Steps & Solid Heart at Rhoby’s Ranch

By Marie Hoff, Fibershed

Despite numerous farming and crafting projects, from fiber to culinary, Rhoby’s Ranch is not hectic. There is a serene quality in the air. Everyone is working together: the sheep, the geese, the dog, the shade tree, the hugelkultur, the hedgerow, the grasses and microbes, the soil — and everyone helps each other work.

  • June 19, 2019
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Transition Towns: An Evolutionary Perspective

By Don Hall, Transition US

It’s been said before, but these are truly the best of times and the worst of times. More frequent natural disasters, supercharged by climate change, as well as the ongoing circus in Washington, are waking more and more people up every day to the realization that we can no longer afford to be merely passive consumers of somebody else’s products.

  • June 19, 2019

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Ecofeminism to Escape Collapse

By Margarita Mediavilla, Resilience.org

From my point of view --which comes from systems dynamics and environmentalism rather than from feminism-- one of the tools that can best help feminist economics articulate a coherent discourse is the pattern of collapse.

  • June 17, 2019
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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.

  • May 23, 2019

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Fibershed Clothing Guide: Second Edition

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Our clothes shouldn’t come at the cost of people or planet. By connecting with your fibershed, you are invited to get to know a geographic designation that provides your natural fiber and dye resources and therefore presents a consumption boundary too.

    • June 18, 2019
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    A Concerned Citizen: Civics in Action

    By Susan Utell, Bo Boudart, Bullfrog Films

    Marine toxicologist Dr. Riki Ott, who helped fishing communities hit by the Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon spills, creates a civics course to help young activists become effective.

    • May 13, 2019

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    Global Inequality in a Time of Climate Emergency

    By Tom Athanasiou, Inequality.org

    If we had to choose one voice, one single slogan, to represent the pivot we’re now passing through, as Wen Stephenson suggests in the Nation, we might well pick the Czech playwright and ex-president Vaclav Havel and his notion of “living in truth.”

    • June 19, 2019
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    Vision is Finally on the Rise in U.S. Politics

    By George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence

    Historically, radical and progressive social movements that have made the biggest difference did their vision work — going beyond protest to describe the systemic changes that would result in more justice, peace and equality.

    • June 18, 2019
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    Economics 101 and Ecological Collapse

    By Edward Fulbrook, Local Futures

    Annually, millions of students around the world are forced to study textbooks that indoctrinate them into thinking that there is no significant causal connection between our economy and the ecosphere.

    • June 18, 2019
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    Investing in the Past: How the ECB Subsidizes the Car Manufacturing Sector

    By Nicolas Hercelin, Positive Money Europe

    Since 2017, Positive Money Europe has been vocally criticizing the way in which the ECB’s corporate quantitative easing programme (CSPP) benefits mainly massive multinational corporations, and in particular those contributing most to climate change.

    • June 17, 2019
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    Stepping Up and Reaching Out – Stories and Mapping

    By Richard Couldrey, Mike Thomas, Transition Network

    It was great to have 146 Transitioners, from 84 different groups, come along to the workshops. But what brought them here? What was their passion and when did they begin their Transition journey? All of this fed into the beginning of our conversations about connecting regionally.

    • June 14, 2019
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