By Amelia Womack, openDemocracy
COP27 may have committed to a loss and damage fund to compensate countries most harmed by a climate emergency they did not create, but it has also committed to a pathway of devastation.
By Aaron Fernando, Shareable
By Alexandra Applegate, YES! magazine
By Priscilla Claeys, Jasber Singh, Agroecology Now!
Many people are now realizing that they cannot move forward without us. And indigenous peoples are saying: “you are not going to talk on our behalf, nor about us, anymore”.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Brewer instead puts forward a plan to create a planetary network of local living economies, organized as bioregions. This idea builds on the pioneering work of Dana Meadows and "The Limits to Growth" study published in the early 1980s.
By Bridget Meehan, ZNetwork
It’s impossible to talk about Vision without also talking about Strategy for they are two sides of the same coin and they are both necessary. Without Strategy, we can never reach our Vision. Without Vision, our Strategy will meander aimlessly.
By Paul Engler, Waging Nonviolence
Social movements are stronger when they sing. That’s a lesson that has been amply demonstrated throughout history, and it’s one that I have learned personally in working to develop trainings for activists over the past decade and a half.
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
One of the tough parts of futures work is helping people step out of the present. The sheer weight of how we do things and think about things right here, right now, gets in the way of people imagining how things can change for the better.
By Jen Schmidt, Hakai Magazine
Schneider is hopeful that Hensel’s work will improve the health of his community’s clam beds, and the two researchers are discussing ways to involve the Indigenous communities around Bodega Bay.
By Shaun Chamberlin, Dark Optimism
Well, after last winter’s powerful ride, it’s now just six weeks until our second Deeper Dive, this time alongside Stephen Jenkinson, Nate Hagens, Isabelle Frémeaux, Mark Boyle, Sherri Mitchell, Tim DeChristopher, Rob Hopkins and Vandana Shiva...
By Matteo Matta, ARC2020
While Japan continues to drive the high-tech smartification of agriculture, what is the role of digitalisation for a diversified, agroecological family farm in a rural part of Hyogo Prefecture?
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
Sure, Malthus missed predicting this enormous surge in human population, not factoring in stored fossil energy. That doesn’t mean we should declare human population a mystery beyond our grasp and refrain from any attempt to understand its trajectory and future.
By Laura Johnson, Resilience.org
What if pausing – slowing down – feeling – could re-embed this truth in our bodies and in the world? What if we could soften into this spaciousness?
By Vicki Robin, Geneen Marie Haugen, Resilience.org
Geneen Marie Haugen, PhD, grew up as a free-range wildish kid with a run amok imagination. She is a guide to the experiential, intertwined mysteries of nature and psyche with the Animas Valley Institute. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Brennan Smith, Gaianism
Delighting in being an expression of Earth in human form – not because it’s good, right or moral – but because it’s who we are.
By Alice Loyd, Resilience.org
Sustainability means living as nature lives. It means no depletion of the elements of the ecosystem humans have been treating as economic resources, and no waste. What we pursue is up that tree.
By Dawid Juraszek, Resilience.org
Only once we’ve given up on the belief that we must succeed can we truly hope that we succeed after all.
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 Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org
And Inequality Kills Us All couples all this useful information and background with leads that can connect readers directly to the groups — and activist resources — now helping to build a more effective struggle for a more equal world.
By Nathan Barlow, Giorgos Kallis, Degrowth.de
The idea is to try to bring degrowth’s abstract ideas to the ground and think more concretely about the metabolisms, policies, economics and politics that can make degrowth REAL.
By Greg Mikkelson, Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy
Brian Czech once likened modern economic growth to a runaway train. This metaphor drives home the point that to save nature and humanity from an ecological train wreck, the most important thing is to decelerate the global economy.
By Yavor Tarinski, Towards Autonomy
In other words, information becomes an asset in the service of economic growth—just like our very interactions with one another on social media have been turned into economic activity.
By Vicki Robin, Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Resilience.org
Gwendolyn Hallsmith is the Executive Director of Global Community Initiatives, a non-profit organization she founded in 2002, and has just celebrated their 20th anniversary. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Dan Sally, You Don't Have to Yell
As the Fed raises interest rates to fight inflation, the economic models they use include energy as a small part of the overall picture. Is that model flawed?
