By Bill Vitek, Resilience.org
The Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog welcomes the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 crisis, but a “return to normal” should refocus us on a long list of global climate emergencies, social injustices, and tottering democratic institutions.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
By Chuck Collins, Common Dreams
By Tim Ingold, Resilience.org
The truth is that in a more-than-human world, nothing exists in isolation. Humans may share this world with non-humans, but by the same token, stones share it with non-stones, trees with non-trees and mountains with non-mountains.
By Leah Penniman, YES! magazine
Many of us have forgotten that our cultural heritage as Black people includes ecological humility, the idea that humans are kin to, not masters of, nature.
By Chris Nelder, Energy Transition Show
Why have nearly all attempts to price carbon failed, while targeted policies to achieve certain objectives, like phase out coal plants or increase wind and solar generation, succeeded? And how can we design climate policies that are truly effective?
By Nathan Ellis, Resilience.org
The geopolitics of climate change, and more specifically, climate security, has become attached to some very destructive modes of thought. Of particular interest are the ways in which the work of Thomas Malthus has become attached to the meaning of climate change.
By Josh Gabbatiss, Robert McSweeney
In this article, Carbon Brief summarises how the media has covered the storm, but, particularly, its repercussions across the energy sector and potential links to climate change.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Today I’d like to call attention to a fantastic collection of 29 original essays, The New Systems Reader: Alternatives to a Failed Economy, edited by James Gustave Speth and Kathleen Courrier and published by Routledge.
By Kara Stiff, Low-Carbon Life
Nearly a year ago when cases of Covid-19 started rising in my area, one of the first things I did was alter my shopping routine.
By Lucia Monje-Jelfs, Sustainable Food Trust
The Cull is an award-winning documentary that explores the controversial topic of deer management in the Scottish Highlands, illustrating the complexity of a debate which has been going on for decades.
By Jeremy Lent, YES! magazine
In short, we need to change the basis of our global civilization. We must move from a civilization based on wealth accumulation to one that is life-affirming: an ecological civilization.
By Jason Hickel, Jason Hickel blog
We could live in a highly educated, technologically advanced society with zero poverty and zero hunger, all with significantly less resources and energy than we presently use.
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
Lakota youth pipeline fighter and climate justice advocate Tokata Iron Eyes stars in “My Name Is Future,” a new independent feature documentary that fuses her worldview with the art of Los Angeles-based activist Andrea Bowers.
By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism
This is the pathway forward: cultivating nature in ways that heal both the landscape and provide for people. Gaian Guilds can mimic those holistic interactions to cultivate a restorative community: working to heal social ills in ways that also heal the Earth.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
But my feeling is that we do need to hear more declarative statements like “Sell the beach house now!” from science and modeling.
By Anthony Cara, Rob Hopkins, OuiShare
In the Transition movement, we saw resilience as a way of “bouncing forward”. We wanted to use the anticipation of these shocks to design different and better systems.
By FAO, FAO
This handbook is written for “sustainable food systems innovators” by a group of innovators from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe who are leading initiatives to grow, share, sell and consume more sustainable foods in their local contexts.
By New Perennials Publishing
This anthology is the first project in the New Perennials Publishing venture. Our goal is to provide thoughtful analyses on crucial social/ecological questions, all at no cost to readers.
By Donnie Maclurcan, Medium.com
When we talk about a system beyond economic growth, we don’t have to refer to an abstract future. There are myriad existing examples of projects, mindsets, and approaches beyond economic growth — and not all fit easily into the ‘sustainability’ box.
By Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Global Tapestry of Alternatives
As we navigate contradictions collectively, we produce a surplus possibility that we must cherish, nourish and expand. The idea of ‘defeat’ prevents us from capturing this incredible dimension of the art of organising hope.
By Aaron Karp, Resilience.org
The trillion-dollar pandemic relief bills demonstrate the federal government's power to create money, upending the question that often stymies progressive policies: how will you pay for it? However, there are still limits to money creation that activists aiming to create a sustainable economy should consider.
By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams
As climate campaigners and the congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doubled down on their support for the Green New Deal, frontline organizations issued a demand for a just recovery...
By Winona LaDuke, YES! magazine
With 10,000 uses, hemp is one of the most versatile plants to grow—and in many ways can be a catalyst for change for Native peoples.
By Lisi Krall, The Great Transition
The transition from hunting and gathering to grain agriculture was a monumental change in our social/economic evolution where the structure and dynamic of economic life became something distinctively different.