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.
By George McAllister, Patrick Mulvaney, Nina Moeller, Colin Anderson, Chris Maughan, Agroecology Now!
By Brian Davey, Feasta
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
At the mention of our “fossil economy” or “fossil civilization”, most of us probably think immediately of “fossil fuels”. But as Mary Soderstrom’s recent book points out, not only our energy supply but also our most important building material has origins in fossilized ancient life.
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
The course of the coronavirus continued to roil the oil markets last week. After a 10 percent gain since the beginning of the year, oil reversed last week as new outbreaks of the virus accompanied by recent lockdowns appeared worldwide.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
As I see it, the case for a turn to peasant farming today is about trying to meet the challenges of the present, not about trying to recross that unbridgeable and silent river of history.
By Robert Jensen, Wes Jackson, Podcast from the Prairie
In this episode of “Podcast from the Prairie,” Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen discuss the creativity of both humans and the larger living world.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
Whether speaking philosophically of the meaning of democracy and what keeps it strong or specifically of what ails the nation, the differences between Joe Biden and Donald Trump are stark.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By Jan Juffermans, Resilience.org
For regionalization, not everything has to be done on a small scale or regionally. It is a search for the optimal scale in terms of transport, energy use, production options, mineral cycle and many other aspects.