The purpose of free speech
By Brian Kaller, Restoring Mayberry
The unpopular, the unpatriotic, the annoying – these are the voices we need, because sometimes they’re right.
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The Future Is…
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
So where people are going to live is probably going to sort itself out. Just like it always has. Still… it’s probably a good idea to get started. We have an awful lot of work to do…
Foraging
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
But I’d like to be able to take what I need out of the garden and then, rather than fretting over all the veg that will go to waste because I can’t eat it or store it, just open it up to the neighborhood.
Pennsylvania County Bans Fracking in Area Parks
By Nick Cunningham, DeSmog Blog
Eight years after allowing a shale gas company to drill beneath Deer Lakes County Park for methane gas, the Pennsylvania county home to Pittsburgh has banned all industrial activity in the area’s eight other parks — despite a veto from the county executive.
High-profile paper on “catastrophic” climate impacts echoes our “What Lies Beneath” analysis on fat-tail, existential risks and IPCC reticence, published four years ago
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
There is a need to outline current knowledge about the likelihood of extreme climate change, discuss why understanding bad-to-worst cases is vital, articulate reasons for concern about catastrophic outcomes, define key terms, and put forward a research agenda.
Hold Fire
By Niamh Ní Bhriain, Transnational Institute
There is no long-term strategy or ultimate goal beyond militarise by any and all possible means.
The Seed Savers of Sahyadri School
By Suma Josson, Salt Films
This film is a documentary on the conservation of indigenous seeds by Sahyadri School, KFI, Khed, Pune, in the western state of Maharashtra in India.
July 2022: Warmest nights in U.S. history
By Bob Henson, Yale Climate Connections
As it melts records across the Northern Hemisphere, the scorching summer of 2022 has squeezed out the warmest month of nights in U.S. history.
Mutual Aid Groups That Arose During COVID Gather to Build Power Regionally
By Ella Fassler, TruthOut
More than two years after ad-hoc networks of collective care sprouted from the cracks of state neglect during the pandemic, mutual aid organizers across the U.S. are convening in Indiana this July to prepare these networks to face crisis, disasters and survival for the long haul.
Climate Knocking at Our Door: How to Integrate Climate into Our Sense of Self
By Jennifer Harvey Sallin, illuminem
It’s worth noting that all integration work – in our relationship with the climate and in any area of our lives – is not a “holy grail” we find at one moment in time and then the work is done.
The Animal Worlds That Lie Beyond Our Perception
By Betsy Mason, Undark
What is special about humans that sets us apart from other animals? Less than some of us would like to believe.
UK household energy debt hit record high even before price hikes
By Caroline Molloy, Open Democracy
A committee of MPs said last week that the government should “stop announcing short-term policies and moving existing budgets around and instead fully fund a national retrofit programme” of home insulation.
For a new politics of ruralization
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
The case for ruralism over urbanism as I see it is simply that the dynamics of climate, energy, water, soil and political economy are going to propel multitudes of people to the world’s farmable regions sooner or later.
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Review: Boys and Oil by Taylor Brorby
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Above all, Boys and Oil is a glorious tour de force of narrative nonfiction: a memoir that reads like the best kind of novel, with a gripping story and an astonishing sense of place, time and character.
The Radical Roots of Community Supported Agriculture
By Jared Spears, Schumacher Center for a New Economics
At the most human level, reconnecting people around the growing of their own food may prove to be among our most effective means of healing our widespread sense of disconnection from nature and community.
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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.
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Princeton University Press
What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet.
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The renewed clamour for growth: ignorance, stupidity or immorality?
By Steady State Manchester Team, Steady-State Manchester
Yet, for a politician to advocate increased economic growth, given the evidence, they have to be ignorant, wicked or stupid.
Now is the Time to Prepare
By Ronald Logan, Resilience.org
In economics there is a proposition known as Dornbusch’s Law that states: Crises take longer to arrive than you can imagine, but when they do come, they happen faster than you can possibly imagine.
William Cobbett’s ‘Cottage Economy’: the future is material
By Samuel Young, Medium.com
Cottage Economy is not, however, just a nineteenth-century DIY manual. It is also a fiercely polemical defence of smallholding as a way of life.
The real risk is that the economy could fail this winter
By Richard Murphy, Tax Research UK
Like so much of life, the economy is very fragile. It can seem almightily powerful to most of us, most of the time. But that is not really the case.
Is degrowth the future?
By Jorge Pinto, Green European Journal
The Future is Degrowth is arguably one of the most complete works on the concept of degrowth, clearly and thoroughly discussing the need to think beyond economic growth and why and how degrowth is an alternative.
Windfarms raise incomes and house prices in rural US, study finds
By Josh Gabbatiss, Carbon Brief
Wind turbines have increased local incomes by around 5% and house values by 2.6% in parts of the US, according to a new study.