By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
The goal of An Inconvenient Apocalypse isn’t to try to convince people of the reality of humankind's environmental and societal crises. The book’s authors know that’s a fool's errand...
By Chris Smaje, The Land Magazine
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
By Julia Conley, Common Dreams
With hundreds of thousands of people displaced, more than four million crops destroyed, and nearly a million homes demolished or severely damaged, Pakistani officials and rights campaigners on Monday called for a major international aid push....
By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification
Why is the financial community so complacent about peak oil and the relationship between increasing energy scale and growth? Can we make predictions about the future by looking back at history?
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
In the short term, we’re staring at an economic and humanitarian catastrophe, and to fix this in the few months we have we have to work with the system we have.
By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium
The question asked by serious political economy now is not ‘how do we perpetuate growth’, but rather, if it will be degrowth by design, or by disaster.
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
A Missouri State University study identified the main citizen concerns voiced: health effects of radioactivity released by uranium, underground water contamination, land and environmental destruction due to mining, lack of Native American consultation, and cultural rights to water based on historic treaties.
By Roger Blanchard, Resilience.org
Environmentalists like to say that oil can be easily replaced with electric and fuel cell vehicles in the transportation sector. But how realistic is that assertion?
By Harriet Fasenfest, YES! magazine
But with time, our lives as consumers in the capitalist economy will appear frail when compared to a life in the home economy. And eventually, we’ll come to understand that this is about more than making cupcakes. A lot more.
By Sara Herschander, Waging Nonviolence
Brooks and other organizers don’t plan to let up on their demands that the federal government cancel all student debt, make college free or affordable, and address the predatory practices that continue to perpetuate the crisis.
By Emily Kenway, Open Democracy
What today’s abolitionists share is a concern with how we can care for one another, in the most expansive sense.
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said ‘cutting production at any time’ was an option for OPEC+...
By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium
This article questions the wisdom that climate-induced political changes are inevitably authoritarian; and suggests instead that centralisation and political dominion will weaken as we leave the stable Holocene era, potentially — but by no means necessarily — opening the possibility for more reciprocal models of political organisation.
By Erin Remblance, illuminem
We don’t need to change the name ‘degrowth’. What we need is for more of us in wealthy nations to intuitively associate the term ‘economic growth’ with ‘collapse’.
By Nate Hagens, Kris De Decker, The Great Simplification
How does low tech differ from high tech and what does it feel like to live a low tech lifestyle?
By Susan Jennings, Agraria
As Carver, Kimmerer, Stamets, and many mystics and shamans have written, life (god, plants fungi, trees, and grasses) sings all around us. The question is, are we listening?
By Jesse Frost, Chelsea Green Publishing
Farmer Jesse Frost shares all he has learned through experience and experimentation with no-till practices on his home farm in Kentucky.
By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Princeton University Press
What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
When it comes to applying these lessons to agricultural history in Britain or elsewhere with a view to creating a just and renewable agrarian future, what I take from Sahlins’s thought is almost the opposite of what a superficial reading of ‘The original affluent society’ might suggest.
By Jared Spears, YES! magazine
The Future Is Degrowth invites us to envision a much deeper societal transition than simply swapping energy sources to maintain the status quo.
By Lisa Hough-Stewart, Open Democracy
This once-fringe idea of going ‘beyond GDP’ is finally appearing at the highest level of international policy discussions and inside governments from New Zealand to Wales.
By Mike De Socio, YES! magazine
Inside this brick storefront, something much more radical is brewing: a business model that could upend the traditional capitalistic business structure.
By Ben Robra, Degrowth.de
It is clear that degrowth neither represents a return to the stone age, nor can it fetishize technological solutions to the climate crisis.
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
Under the right conditions society, with all its structures and systems, can change as rapidly as the mercury in the thermometers is rising.