Three Sources of Hope
By Guy Dauncey, Great Transition Initiative
The Great Transition scenarios, detailed in the 2022 Great Transition essay, stand the test of time. All six are alive and well, not as scenarios but as realities.
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Political Challenges in the Crisis of Criticism
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.
How co-ops are transforming Quebec’s food deserts
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.
Patrick Ophuls: “Energy, Politics, and The Future”
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.
Doing development differently: How Kenya is rapidly emerging as Africa’s renewable energy superpower
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
In 2021, 81% of Kenya’s electricity generation came from the low carbon sources of geothermal, hydro, wind, and solar power.
What does War in Ukraine Mean for Smallholder Farming?
By Natalia Mamonova, ARC2020
The war demonstrated that smallholders can better adapt and survive in extreme conditions by relying on short food chains, alternative farm inputs, mutual help and reciprocity.
The struggle to keep public water services in the public is only just beginning
By Pamela Haines, Waging Nonviolence
As we work for public financing and control, we can join with others around the world who are rejecting the concept of water as a for-profit commodity and organizing to reclaim their access to water as a basic human right.
COP27 achieved nothing. No surprises there
By Chris Lang, REDD-Monitor
Another UN climate meeting has come and gone. Yet again, it will make no difference whatsoever. The fossil fuel industry will continue to expand. Greenhouse gas emissions will increase. The climate crisis will get worse.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 94 with Gwendolyn Hallsmith
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?”
Earth vs. Futurism
By Rupert Read, Emerge
Longtermism is a lullaby sung to the tune of tired fantasies of human exceptionalism. It is anaesthesia for the age of consequences.
Why Economic Models Neglect Energy, and Why That’s a Problem
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?
Indigenous and Black Communities Find Common Cause for Land Justice
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.
What’s making voters so angry at each other?
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.
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Wrong Problem, Wrong Message, Wrong Tree
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.
Climate Antifragility
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.
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The Living Soil Handbook
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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Same storm, different boats: COVID-19 and gendered time
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.
Empire not only made the colonies. It made the unequal Britain we see today
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.
The Response: Mutual Aid with Joshua Potash
By Robert Raymond, Joshua Potash, Shareable
Mutual aid is a concept and practice that has come up many times in the stories we tell on The Response — so we thought it would be helpful to devote an entire episode to exploring what mutual aid is with someone who is deeply immersed in it on the ground.
Owning Earth
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
Nobody owns the land. Nobody has title to create scarcity in order to increase personal wealth. Nobody can take without giving back.
Modernity and our crisis of meaning
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
Modern metaphysics, based on the idea of the infinite, including infinite growth, has also broken down. Perhaps we need to look for the infinite in different places.
‘Capital’s attack on nature endangers humanity’
By João Pedro Stedile, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research
Capitalism is facing a structural crisis. It is no longer capable of organizing the production and distribution of goods that people need. Its logic of profit and capital accumulation prevent us from having a more just and egalitarian society.