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Sea Change

By Charlotte Du Cann, Charlotte Du Cann blog

What if we started again here, by the sea, where the memory of our physical happiness comes to us on a summer’s day? I always thought ground state meant you needed to have your feet planted on terra firma – but what if it means being at home in another state entirely? Something  more shifting and fluid. A state where we can remember our creaturehood, our place in the pod, the feeling we are beloved by the life that surrounds and holds us, its beauty and complexity?

  • August 22, 2019

LATEST ARTICLES

Save our farm!

TyT Field Dispatches: ‘I Remember When All This was Bare Earth’

By Chris Maughan, People's Knowledge

One standout issue this time was how much joy I felt (and others appeared to feel) on being in the field, gathering on the farm, and (especially) being in the field that had greater diversity. All this is missing from our results. The conventional measures we use aren’t particularly good at reflecting the process of research, which – in citizen science at least – is arguably so much more important than ‘results’.

  • August 22, 2019
Grief

Tools for the Awakening

By Aimee Lewis-Reau, LaUra Schmidt, Resilience.org

Take this leap. You are not alone. We are all in this together.  Garnish support from and hold space for others. Let’s process, dream, and grow together. We need you now. There is no more time to waste.

  • August 21, 2019
July global temperatures

As Climate Crisis Grows, Temperatures Set Global Records

By Ian Angus, Climate & Capitalism

The global land and ocean surface temperature departure from average for July 2019 was the highest for the month of July, making it the warmest month overall in the 140-year NOAA global temperature dataset record, which dates back to 1880.

  • August 21, 2019
Another world is possible

Reclaiming the Commons through State Ownership? Maybe Not

By Milan Babic, Open Democracy

But how close is this form of transnational state capital to an idea of public or common ownership? Is state ownership really a viable alternative for a post-neoliberal, more inclusive and emancipatory global economy?

  • August 21, 2019
Plastic pollution

One Word—Plastics: Why the World Will be Slow to Abandon Natural Gas

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

Petrochemicals are the 800-pound gorilla that many fail to account for in their climate defense plans. Termed a blind spot of the global energy system by the International Energy Agency (IEA) petrochemicals are a driving force behind the increasing demand for fossil fuels.

  • August 21, 2019
Wheel of fortune

Two Arguments for Localism

By Richard Heinberg, Great Transition Initiative

Our current global society appears to be in the conservation phase of its adaptive cycle: it is at a peak of scale and integration. If the cyclical behavior of past societies is repeated in ours, recent trends toward globalization and urbanization will reach natural limits and be reversed.

  • August 21, 2019
Tokyo

In the Land of the Rising Sun, Climate Efforts are Falling Behind

By Imogen Malpus, Uneven Earth

Posing a defiant alternative to the Abe government and corporate sustainability, these protesters point to the only possible path forward: Japan must take responsibility for its historical emissions, and use its enormous wealth to help pull the planet back from the brink.

  • August 20, 2019
Trump Digs Coal

Time has Come to Nationalize the US Fossil Fuel Industry

By Carla Santos Skandier, ROAR Magazine

There are many ways in which such a nationalization effort could be implemented. It could follow the path adopted during World War II, when Congress enacted laws authorizing federal takeovers. But it could also take other pathways as seen in recent nationalization attempts, including the ones implemented in response to the Great Financial Recession.

  • August 20, 2019
UK farmers

An Everyday Tale of the Rural Economy

By Catherine Broomfield, Sustainable Food Trust

What we must not forget amid the reams of policy briefings and papers, is that rural economies are not an abstract concept, but a mosaic of real people, places and passions that drive creativity and entrepreneurship. Here are two such stories of the many remarkable everyday tales of rural economy folk.

  • August 20, 2019

EDITOR’S PICKS

Via Organica

Regenerating the Human Story

By Tracy L. Barnett, Esperanza Project

“You know, what’s really wonderful about this is that it’s not just about regenerative agriculture, It’s about regenerating the human story; it’s about regenerating the way that we look at health, food, economics, human relationships — even our own history.”

  • August 14, 2019
The prophet Amos by Gustave Dore

From the Royal to the Prophetic to the Apocalyptic: The Case for a Saving Remnant

By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org

The royal, prophetic, and apocalyptic traditions in the Hebrew and Christian bibles provide a compelling framework for understanding progressive intellectual and political work today, as we face the task not only of struggling to create a just and sustainable world but also imagining a saving remnant that will negotiate a radically different future in which both new and old skills, stories, and spaces will be necessary.

  • August 7, 2019

THINK RESILIENCE

FEATURED RESOURCES

The Agroforestry Handbook

By Ben Raskin, The Soil Association

Written for farmers and advisors this book will help you assess the potential business benefits of agroforestry for your farm or client and to understand the possible benefits to the wider environment.

    • August 16, 2019

    Our Future in the Land

    Food, Farming, and Countryside Commission

    The actions we take in the next ten years, to stop ecosystems collapse, to recover and regenerate nature and to restore people’s health and wellbeing are now critical. In this final report, the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission sets out radical and practical ways for policymakers, business and communities to respond to the challenges.

    • August 7, 2019

    MORE ARTICLES

    Iceland financial crisis

    Iceland – Independent Economic Policy, Holding Finance Accountable and Experimenting with Local Democracy

    By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance

    Iceland’s economy had thrived on speculative finance but, after the meltdown, rather than making the public pay for the crisis, as the Nobel economist Paul Krugman points out, Iceland ‘let the banks go bust and actually expanded its social safety net’ and instead of placating financial markets, ‘imposed temporary controls on the movement of capital to give itself room to manoeuvre.’

    • August 16, 2019
    Sacrifice of Isaac

    On Sacrifice

    By Julia Steinberger, Open Democracy

    Raising the spectre of sacrifice is the all the vogue in current climate denier and delayer circles: it is representative of our current moment in time. Having comprehensively been routed on the denial of science, the minions of fossil fuel lobbies have moved on to delay the onset and diminish the scope of action.

    • August 16, 2019
    Boris Johnson and Donald Trump

    Brexit and Long Wave Thinkings

    By Andrew Curry, thenextwave

    Although Turchin's piece is full of comparisons between the UK and the US, which he sees as fellow travellers, certainly when compared to France, there are significant differences between Trumpism and Brexit.

    • August 15, 2019
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    Britain’s Infrastructure is Breaking Down. And Here’s Why No One’s Fixing It

    By Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian blog

    The spirit we need is that summed up by the librarian who rhapsodises to Klinenberg about his branch: “The library really is a palace. It bestows nobility on people who can’t otherwise afford a shred of it. People need to have nobility and dignity in their lives. And, you know, they need other people to recognise it in them too.”

    • August 14, 2019
    Public banking

    Author Ellen Brown Discusses how Public Banking can Create Shared Prosperity

    By Robert Raymond, Ellen Brown, Shareable

    Public banking is one alternative model, and the grassroots movement that has formed around it intends to radically reimagine the banking system in the United States. Working with legislators across the US, advocates are pushing for the creation of public banks on the municipal, county and state levels.

    • August 13, 2019
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