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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?
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?
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
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.
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.
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...
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?
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?
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.
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
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.
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.”
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...”
By Brian Kaller, Restoring Mayberry
The unpopular, the unpatriotic, the annoying – these are the voices we need, because sometimes they’re right.
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…
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 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 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 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.
By Niamh Ní Bhriain, Transnational Institute
There is no long-term strategy or ultimate goal beyond militarise by any and all possible means.
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 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 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.