By Brian Kaller, Restoring Mayberry
I’m not an expert beekeeper; My cousin in County Longford is an expert beekeeper, and I’ve learned a lot from him. I’m a guy who had a beehive, and got some honey once a year. I’m just writing about what it was like to get the hive, so you can avoid some of the same mistakes.
By Liam Kavanaugh, Moderate Flank
By Tom Athanasiou, Foreign Policy In Focus
By Amelia Womack, Open Democracy
Africa is at a crossroads in how its constituent countries develop and build their economies. What happens next isn’t just about the future of carbon emissions, but the future of African communities.
By Priti Gulati Cox, Stan Cox, TomDispatch
Could the perseverance and courage of people like Paracha, Abd el-Fattah, and the activists for climate justice and human rights — both those who attended the conference at Sharm el Sheik and countless others around the world — make it possible someday to drop the “Yet” and say simply, “We Have Not Been Defeated”?
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
The combination of research, policy reports, political pressure and movement-building have kickstarted a river restoration effort that shows no signs of slowing down — and could be a model for other regions.
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 Mark Maslin, Priti Parikh, Richard Taylor, Simon Chin-Yee, The Conversation
So why did COP27 fail? And what can be done before the next summit – COP28 in Dubai – to ensure progress?
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
Without doubt, global agriculture output has increased tremendously over the last sixty years. How much, which crops or commodities, how and why are things I will address in a series of articles.
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 Ruby Irene Pratka, Shareable
In French, the word for food processing is the same as the word for sweeping social change: transformation. Alex Beaudin dreams of doing both.
By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification
Today, ecologist, political scientist, and author Patrick Ophuls joins Nate to discuss his new book, The Tragedy of Industrial Civilization and The Future of Politics.
By Phila Back, Phila Back blog
I discovered a new under the radar movement of otherwise inactive people talking to each other. These were citizens freely acting on their own initiative to link up with others as citizens with the aim of making real the promise of democracy.
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 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?
By PennElys Droz, YES! magazine
Black and Indigenous communities increasingly see that creating healing relationships with one another is at the heart of building true transformative power to achieve land justice, with seeds of healing being planted every day.
By Darian Meacham, Luana Russo, Open Democracy
With declining real wages, often precarious contracts, and stressful working conditions, parties that use communication tactics or promote policies that prompt strong negative emotional responses are more likely to attract voters then their more temperate rivals.
By Clare Hollins, Degrowth.de
The solutions to these economic and temporal inequalities should be rooted in the goal that all workers, irrespective of gender, are able to devote equal time to care and other unpaid work.
By Kojo Koram, Open Democracy
My book ‘Uncommon Wealth’ and ‘BOOMERANG’ meets this challenge by examining how an honest reckoning with the legacies of empire can help us understand and address the roots of our current crises to finally create an economy that works for all.