By Matt Rendell, Rapid Transition Alliance
This story weaves the indigenous cultural revival of the Muysca people of Suba in Colombia, together with the transition to more sustainable living.
By Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence
By Maura Stephens, Karen Edelstein, System Change not Climate Change
By Jane K. Brundage, Resilience.org
Stan Cox has pulled off quite a feat with his latest book “The Path to a Livable Future: A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic.” In a relaxed, inviting style, Cox sets unorthodox ideas in a persuasive human and environmental context.
By Jasmine Lorenzini, Green European Journal
The process of re-engaging young people with institutional politics goes hand in hand with a reinforced interplay of political parties and social movements.
By Louise Kelleher, ARC2020
In the words of Mathieu Hamon, another associate of La Ferme des 7 Chemins, if we are to tackle urgent issues: “We have to move fast but not too fast”. We can build rural resilience together, one act of unsung activism at a time.
By John Foran, Resilience.org
Openness, imagination, creativity, solidarity, compassion, love, joy, humor, and much more should be the words we keep handy in our pockets, our hands, and our hearts. Our heads will follow if we dedicate our lives to this.
By Maxence Peigné, Open Democracy
As Europeans suffer surging energy prices, the EU is renewing its commitment to costly natural gas instead of investing in cheap renewables, it has been revealed.
By Judy Bankman, YES! magazine
The first Native-owned and Native-led land trust is working to empower and equip young Natives to successfully farm kelp.
By Vera Weghmann, David Hall, The Conversation
Beyond just grid ownership, publicly owned systems for generating electricity could also restore and expand the capacity for democratic control of a sector that provides a vital public benefit.
By Deborah McGregor, Carbon Brief
Indigenous climate justice advocates argue that as long as these dominant world systems fail to embrace the transformation required and offered by Indigenous peoples – including an acceptance of the rights of Mother Earth – humanity as a whole will continue to fail the planet.
By Jeremy Lent, Patterns of Meaning
The global conversation regarding climate change has, for the most part, ignored the elephant in the room.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
What’s being talked about on Capitol Hill is infrastructure and President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. What’s currently being built, however, are ramparts in anticipation of the 2022 and 2024 federal election battles that I am confident will be “take no prisoners” affairs.
By Vicki Robin, Kamea Chayne, Resilience.org
Kamea Chayne is a Hakka-Taiwanese creative, writer, the author of Thrive, and the host of the Green Dreamer podcast. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Chuck Collins, Common Dreams
The Pandora Papers will hopefully give a boost to the US Congress in passing a progressive tax plan to fund the Build Back Better program—and that includes money for IRS enforcement to ensure the wealthy pay their fair share.
By Adrian Ayres Fisher, Ecological Gardening
It’s past time to quit the cowboy economics, to hang up the hats and put away the spurs. To salvage both nature and humanity, pretty much everything about how we conduct human society must change. So what are you doing to help? I mean actually doing?
By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul
This may become the winter of our discontent as people around the world face a widening energy crisis: rationing because supplies are limited due to delivery shortages, production limits, cost, or by government mandate.
By Philip Clayton, Kelli M Archie, Jonah Sachs, Evan Steiner, One Project
The New Possible offers twenty-eight unique visions of what can be, if instead of choosing to go back to normal, we choose to go forward to something far better.
By Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers
This is the story of power—humanity’s power over nature and the power of some people over others.
By Adam Ramsay, Open Democracy
COP26 will be a fight over different possible futures, a battle between social movements and entrenched power; between those desperate to defend the world, and those who prefer to preserve the world order; between reality and spin.
By John Pattison, Strong Towns
The good news: We can get cleaner commutes right now by building cities that are walkable and bikeable. What if commuting by car or truck wasn’t an absolute necessity for so many people?
By Apoorva Dhingra, Uneven Earth
At a time when the spaces we inhabit determine our chances to survive a deadly virus, it is crucial to challenge canonical urban planning and its deep failures in the Global South.
By Yavor Tarinski, Towards Autonomy
What can help us move in the direction of a genuine social emancipation is not the passive belonging to a certain social stratum, be it economic or other, but the active stance and praxis in everyday life.
By Akin Olla, Waging Nonviolence
While many see Occupy as a failure or victory for the left, Momentum understands it as a lesson that needs to be dissected and understood.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Can property law be used to reclaim our common wealth and transform capitalism in the process? Peter Barnes, a socially minded entrepreneur and commoner, believes it can.
