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.
By Bob Henson, Yale Climate Connections
By Suma Josson, Salt Films
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.
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.
By Niamh Ní Bhriain, Transnational Institute
There is no long-term strategy or ultimate goal beyond militarise by any and all possible means.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By Roger Blanchard, Resilience.org
I don’t expect oil production from the Middle East OPEC countries to significantly exceed the production rates of 2018/2019 in the future irrespective of what the U.S. wants them to produce.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
But in our reality in 2022, with far too much carbon dioxide already flowing through the atmosphere and the climate crisis worsening every year, knowingly emitting more greenhouse gases for another two decades is a shockingly cavalier dance with destruction.
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.
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
U.S. distillate consumption has begun to fall in line with the deceleration in manufacturing activity.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
By Nate Hagens, Steve Keen, The Great Simplification
Keen discusses how mainstream economics misses the centrality of energy to our economy and to our futures, the naive treatment to the risks of money and debt creation, and the disconnect economic theory has to climate change risks.
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
Coffee, the addictive obsession of the affluent class, can tell us more about modern society than just retail trends; it is an indicator for how the modern neoliberal system operates, and its current shift toward new economic extremes.