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By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Why can’t we quit fossil fuels tomorrow, and what implications does that have for our way of life given that we are already in a climate emergency?
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Protect This Place: Italy’s World Heritage Beech Forests
By Olivia Box, The Revelator
Stories about these forests and villages can help connect people to these old-growth systems and their irreplaceable worth and inspire people to continue to work to protect them.
Class struggle or degrowth?
By Gray Maddrey, Uneven Earth
Knowledge may not be power, but should the future ‘become what it must’, the process of building power will have been one of building knowledge.
Top Economists Hail Chilean Constitution as ‘New Global Standard’ on Climate, Inequality
By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams
A group of world-renowned economists and social scientists published an open letter Wednesday hailing Chile's draft constitution as a transformative document...
Our imaginations can help create new climate possibilities
By James Arnott, Sarah Spengeman, Yale Climate Connections
Though fictional, the book raises a very real question: Can the human capacity to imagine alternate climate futures actually help generate new, more hopeful realities?
Plunging Into the Polycrisis
By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism
The more I listened to participants, though, the more I realized perhaps most accurate word is “embrace”, for is it really possible to manage this polycrisis?
A Better Brand of Pessimism
By Stan Cox, City Lights
Yes, our society is better off with the IRA having passed than we would be without its passage. But if we don’t find a way to snuff out fossil fuels, directly, on a crash schedule, the climate emergency will only intensify.
Be (grateful) here now: Deep Adaptation Gratitude Month
By Katie Carr, Deep Adaptation Forum
“Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.”-Joanna Macy
The Cost of Living
By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul
The true ‘cost of living’ takes on new meaning when what is needed may or may not be available to buy at any cost.
Democracy Rising 24: Scaling Deliberation—Austrian Citizens’ Councils
By Rosa Zubizarreta, Resilience.org
Citizens’ Councils can also be part of a broader range of processes used within a given region to support a larger “deliberative system.”
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 15 August 2022
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
“The average US price of retail gasoline has fallen by more than USc 80 per gallon (16%) since the mid-June peak, which should support demand in August...”
The purpose of free speech
By Brian Kaller, Restoring Mayberry
The unpopular, the unpatriotic, the annoying – these are the voices we need, because sometimes they’re right.
The Future Is…
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
So where people are going to live is probably going to sort itself out. Just like it always has. Still… it’s probably a good idea to get started. We have an awful lot of work to do…
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Mutual Aid Groups That Arose During COVID Gather to Build Power Regionally
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.
Review: Boys and Oil by Taylor Brorby
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.
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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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The Stench of Neoliberalism with Noam Chomsky (Bonus episode of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Noam Chomsky, Resilience.org
As a follow-up to Episode 61 of the Crazy Town podcast, Noam Chomsky, the well-known linguist, author, and social critic, joins Asher Miller in Crazy Town to discuss the failures and dominance of neoliberalism.
Hold Fire
By Niamh Ní Bhriain, Transnational Institute
There is no long-term strategy or ultimate goal beyond militarise by any and all possible means.
UK household energy debt hit record high even before price hikes
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.
For a new politics of ruralization
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.
The renewed clamour for growth: ignorance, stupidity or immorality?
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.
Now is the Time to Prepare
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.