Profits of Utopia
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
What led to the twentieth century’s rapid economic growth? And what are the prospects for that kind of growth to return?
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
What led to the twentieth century’s rapid economic growth? And what are the prospects for that kind of growth to return?
By Liz Theoharis, Tom Dispatch
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
Food is not, should not, primarily be seen as a commodity to be bought or sold. To a large extent food is an expression of culture, solidarity and connectedness with the land. Food is also a human right.
By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification
On this episode, Nate speaks with econometrician and sustainability researcher Gaya Herrington about her new book, Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse, a more in-depth and personal telling of her 2021 review of the Limits to Growth (LTG).
By Simon Evans, Carbon Brief
Renewables will cover almost all of global electricity demand growth out to 2025, becoming the world’s top source of electricity within three years, new figures reveal.
By Patrick Mazza, The Raven
That is the place of a movement of movements, to move beyond single-issue politics, to pull together the various aspirations for a better society into an understandable, coherent whole, and to unify our forces to make our aspirations reality.
By Noah Kaufman, Chris Bataille, Gautam Jain, Sagatom Saha, The Conversation
The two visions for climate policy tariffs involve different paths toward somewhat different goals, so they cannot easily be reconciled.
By Patrick Loftus, Degrowth.de
If we are to be intentional about equitably meeting human needs and prospering within ecological boundaries, I believe we need to do the work of imagining that world first if we want to create it.
By Sean Goodwin, Carbon Brief
Two things are clear from the recent UN climate change and biodiversity summits: “nature-based solutions” appear here to stay, and not everyone is happy about it.
By Terezie Daňková, Mathieu Willard, Matteo Matta, ARC2020
This big vs small debate needs to be sorted out with a more detailed, targeted lens that does justice to the small-medium active farmers, individual or aggregated together in larger organisations.
By Rob Dietz, Resilience.org
In my experience, there is nothing in the human-built environment that can compete with the beauty and wonder of natural landscapes, but if I were to hold one thing in the anthro-environment sacred, it would be the cycling infrastructure.
By Wim Laven, ZNet
The debt ceiling is proof that war is not working. We cannot afford it. We have the capacity for complex problem solving, lets finally prove it.
By Sonali Kolhatkar, YES! magazine
What gets us to racial justice is making sure that people have the things that they need to survive and thrive.
By Victoria Collier, Ben Ptashnik, Esperanza Project
Climate change is more than a terrifying crisis, it is an opportunity to restore planetary ecosystems and create healthier, more balanced societies.
By Zia Gallina, La Bella Terra
Once we understood the intrinsic value of the natural world, not just what it contributes to our well-being, our economy and the local ecology, there was no going back.
By Alice Loyd, Food is the Key
But I like a scenario in which the heroic masses reach the end of their tolerance before that happens. They—we—rebel, withdraw, dismantle, and replace the evil practices with more ethical ones while the planet is still livable.
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 Luis González Reyes, 15/15\15
There are already plenty of economic and political actors defending the hyper-technological renewables. The time has come to shift our discourses toward technics that will enable us to change the energy matrix while also achieving an ecosocial transition.
By Marianne Landzettel, ARC2020
On 26 January, the future of post-Brexit agricultural policy in England became clearer with the government’s announcement of six new standards under its Sustainable Farming Incentive.
By Joel Stronberg, Medium
Do oil companies and their investors have a paramount right to profits earned through no sweat of their brows over families who, through no fault of their own, are forced to make decisions between food and fuel, between keeping the lights on and life-saving medicines?
By Adam Ramsay, Open Democracy
But once we understand that kleptocracy is a process at the heart of the modern global economy, we see that Britain is a lot worse than it seems at first.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Choi has brought the ethic and practices of commoning to the creation of art and its exhibition. She and her colleagues have embraced commoning as an organizing principle for how a diverse team of artists can make art and work together.
By Gary Gardner, Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy
Indeed, one thing seems indisputable: Unleashing fusion in an unbounded, growth-driven economy would be a wholesale disaster.