Recovering from COVID
By Vicki Robin, Resilience.org
Many may feel this way now as we emerge from Covid and the Trump presidency - still somewhat skittish after 4 years of waking to ever crazier tweets, threats, and lies – yet cautiously hopeful.
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Bringing Community to the Table in Climate Adaptation
By Leslie MacKenzie, Transition US
Transition Longfellow connected climate change to the things our neighbors love and care about the most – their children’s health, their chickens and vegetable gardens, their homes, and favorite businesses.
The Nottingham Economic Recovery and Renewal Consultation – Part Three
By Brian Davey, Feasta
Promoting economic growth is unethical because economic activity has overshot the carrying capacity of the biosphere and is degrading the ecological system.
New research on forests and oceans suggest projections of future warming may be too conservative, with serious consequences
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
How much will the world warm with ongoing fossil-fuel carbon emissions? It’s a big question that preoccupies policymakers and activists, with important discussions about when the world will hit two degrees, are we really on a path to four degrees of warming with current Paris commitments, and so on.
The push for standing forest protections in US climate policy
By Kate S. Petersen, Environmental Health News
In 2019, Moomaw and his co-authors published a scientific review finding that the capacity of forested lands to sequester carbon dioxide could be increased significantly. They say the fastest way to do this is through what they call "proforestation," the natural growth and development of standing forest ecosystems.
Nottingham Economy Recovery and Renewal Plan – Response Part 2
By Brian Davey, Feasta
As the demand for help from food banks increases can we really expect that spending on the arts and culture will be getting top priority in how people allocate their available money?
Reflecting on ORFC 2021: Blinking into the Light – Galvanising Food Movements in Troubling Times
By George McAllister, Patrick Mulvaney, Nina Moeller, Colin Anderson, Chris Maughan, Agroecology Now!
And so, as we emerge blinking into the light, from behind our lockdown screens, it is with an invigorated vision of the world we’re collectively striving to build. We have much to do, but grounds to be positive.
Will Technology Solve Climate Change?
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
What if we actually planned to reduce energy usage significantly while revamping the economy to promote happiness and well-being? Then it would be far easier to replace our remaining energy usage with renewable sources.
Reinhabitation: Body, Place, Bioregion
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Findhorn New Story Hub
Confused by the story of separation, many people have tried to seek certainty, control and prediction, rather than embracing uncertainty and humbly accepting the limits of what can be known.
Rondout Riverport 2040: Part 1
By Andrew Willner, Resilience.org
Rondout Riverport 2040 offers the communities of Kingston and Esopus, New York, a visionary template and extraordinary opportunity for remaking and transforming the Rondout Creek and Hudson River Working Waterfront over the next 20 years.
How to Build Narrative Power and Co-Create a Just Future
By Adam Szymanski, Post-Growth Institute
Before we can set to work tearing down old systems and building up better ones, we first have to imagine where we want to go.
Climate crisis is foundation of Indian farmers’ protests
By Omair Ahmad, The Third Pole
The protests by Indian farmers against three laws initially passed as ordinances have gone from sporadic in August 2020 to the biggest peaceful civil society protest in the world.
The Nottingham Economic Recovery Consultation (Part One)
By Brian Davey, Feasta
This means that there are a number of ecological economic needs for a change in the structure of the Nottingham economy which will have to happen – above all relocalisation of economic relationships, particularly in food production.
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Martin Luther King’s vision of an interconnected world is more relevant than ever
By Arthur Romano, Waging Nonviolence
King’s recognition of profound interconnectivity demanded that human security be grounded in the quality of our relationships, the systems we have in place to support people when things get hard, and by creating international frameworks to guarantee equity and human dignity over profit.
On the Possibility of Speaking a Foreign Language in One’s Native Tongue: Why Our Reskilling Conversations Matter
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.
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Enabling sustainable food systems. Innovators’ handbook
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.
The Perennial Turn: Contemporary Essays from the Field
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.
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A Brief History of Consumer Culture
By Kerryn Higgs, MIT Press Reader
Over the course of the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.
Telling the Story of the Digitize my Community Initiative
By Uche Isieke, Resilience.org
With the social media tool in our hands, we can transform, build resilience and achieve sustainable development for our various communities.
The Darkest Hour Is Just Before the Dawn. How to Transform Trumpism After Trump: On Post-Truth, Post-Democracy, and Post-Humanity.
By Otto Scharmer, Medium
Transformation literacy is the capacity of a system to respond to challenges of disruption in ways that move beyond efforts to merely optimize the status quo.
Cooperation and Chocolate: The Story of One Colombian Community’s Quest for Peace
By Agostino Petroni, YES! magazine
Two decades after its declaration of neutrality, the community still carries on its peace crusade. Despite many difficulties, they are hanging on to their collective work thanks to the precious cacao cultivation.
The Rubble of Empire
By Rebecca Gordon, Tom Dispatch
How can you tell when your empire is crumbling? Some signs are actually visible from my own front window here in San Francisco.
Review: Capitalism and Environmental Collapse by Luiz Marques
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Capitalism and Environmental Collapse is an exhaustive summary of today’s plethora of existential ecological threats, followed by an equally comprehensive discussion of what author Luiz Marques deems to be the core fallacies at their root.