A Sea Change Moment?

By Asher Miller, Resilence.org

Tomorrow begins the Global Climate Strike. What many hope will be a sea change moment in the struggle to mobilize a real response to this existential threat had a humble start a year ago when a young Swedish student, Greta Thunberg, began spending her Fridays protesting in front of the Swedish Parliament. Inspired by Greta’s example—and her blunt, uncompromising stance—millions of students have since joined her in the “Fridays for the Future” movement. This week is an opportunity for the rest of us to participate.

  • September 19, 2019

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For the Sake of Life on Earth, We Must Put a Limit on Wealth

By George Monbiot, The Guardian blog

A meaningful strike in defence of the living world is, in part, a strike against the desire to raise our incomes and accumulate wealth: a desire shaped, more than we are probably aware, by dominant social and economic narratives. I see myself as striking in support of a radical and disturbing concept: enough.

  • September 19, 2019
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How Then Shall We Live?

By Laurie Cone, Resilience.org

This will be a transition that could lead to a world that is increasingly more just and less desecrated, but we will be doing hard things that we’ve never done. Surprising allies may appear. We may or may not see the fruit of our work. But we’re here now, capable of doing our part, and the world and her inhabitants are still full of beauty and wonder, and there’s no time to waste.

  • September 19, 2019
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These Extraordinary Times: Indigenous Peoples and Coalition Building for Agroecology and Food Sovereignty

By Carol Kalafatic, Agroecology Now!

In this post I aim to elaborate my belief that, to build or spread food sovereignty, there is an increased need for diverse Peoples, communities and social movements to strengthen relationships and coalitions with one another. Our exchange of knowledges, strategies and practices will keep producing tangible results, and on the less tangible but equally important side, our solidarity will reinforce our resilience in the face of increasing unpredictability.

  • September 18, 2019
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Naomi Klein: “The Moral Crisis is Inextricable from the Ecological Crisis”

By Naomi Klein, Aaron White, Open Democracy

Klein’s forthcoming book, 'On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal', takes the reader through a journey of essays and lectures spanning the last decade, exploring how our contemporary crises, from the ecological to the moral, reinforce each other.

  • September 18, 2019
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Why You Should Join the Global Climate Strike this Friday

By Bill McKibben, The Guardian blog

Many people, of course, can’t do without a day’s pay, or work for bosses who who would fire them if they missed work. So it really matters that those of us with the freedom to rally do so. Since I published the first book for a general audience on climate change 30 years ago this month, I’ve had lots of time to think about the various ways to move people to action.

  • September 18, 2019
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By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

Congress will move spending legislation on multiple fronts this week, possibly including the Energy and Water Development bill in the Senate and a stopgap measure in the House. Lawmakers are pressing to pass fiscal 2020 spending bills before the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1 amid partisan splits over funding levels and policy riders.

  • September 18, 2019
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The Rebellion Hypothesis: Crisis, Inaction, and the Question of Civil Disobedience

By Samuel Alexander, The Simplicity Collective

The main argument of this essay is that XR and rebellions like it are almost certainly going to grow in coming months and years as more people around the world become politically frustrated, angry, scared, and directly impacted by inaction in the face of today’s overlapping ecological and humanitarian crises.

  • September 18, 2019
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Regenerative Agriculture is Trending in South Africa

By David Smedley, Sustainable Food Trust

Arable farming systems across South Africa are going through a change. Forced by a variable climate and financial pressure, regenerative farming models are increasingly being implemented on cropping, dairy and beef operations as a result. Ethical motivations and issues of family succession are also reasons for adopting the principles of Regenerative Agriculture (RA).

  • September 17, 2019
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Towards a Climate Activism Curriculum

By Aaron Karp, The Ecologist

The better that one understands a problem, the greater the chance of solving it. So it is with climate change, a crisis demanding far-reaching social transformation. But just how far-reaching?  A broad curriculum that develops activists’ clarity and unity of vision could be an essential pillar to advance the climate movement’s preparation, ambition, and cohesiveness.

  • September 17, 2019

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As Society Unravels, the Future Is Up for Grabs

By Jeremy Lent, Patterns Of Meaning blog

As civilization faces an existential crisis, our leaders demonstrate their inability to respond. Theory of change shows that now is the time for radically new ideas to transform society before it’s too late.

  • September 16, 2019
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The Agrarian Alternative

By Chad Hellwinckel, Resilience.org

Such an agrarian civilization will see no impending ecological doom but instead a future of steady processes and patterns with no need for faith in great technological inventions of salvation. Not a utopian world - surely grappling with problems of their own - but a wise culture; taking the lessons of a past society bent on ever-more for ever-more’s sake to heart and respecting limits.

  • September 4, 2019

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Eating Tomorrow

By Timothy A. Wise, The New Press

A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert

    • September 10, 2019

    The Agroforestry Handbook

    By Ben Raskin, The Soil Association

    Written for farmers and advisors this book will help you assess the potential business benefits of agroforestry for your farm or client and to understand the possible benefits to the wider environment.

    • August 16, 2019

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    The Insidious Ideology Pushing us Towards a Brexit Cliff-Edge

    By George Monbiot, The Guardian blog

    At first sight it’s incomprehensible. Why risk everything for a no-deal Brexit? Breaking up their own party, losing their parliamentary majority, dismantling the UK, trashing the economy, triggering shortages of food and medicine: how could any objective, for the Conservative and Unionist party, be worth this? What good does it do them?

    • September 17, 2019
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    Six Problems for Green Deals

    By Mark H. Burton, Steady-State Manchester

    If nothing else, the last few months have heightened awareness of the desperately parlous predicament that now faces humanity, with an accelerating climate and ecological crisis. So attempts to design assertive policy proposals are very welcome. The Green New Deal is the one that currently is getting the most attention and perhaps traction. So I want to ask some critical questions....

    • September 17, 2019
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    Land Without Bread: the Green New Deal Forsakes America’s Countryside

    By Catherine Tumber, Local Futures

    The disappearance of land from ruling economic theory may account for why the collapse of smaller heartland communities is greeted with a shrug by writers for the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also helps to explain its absence from the Green New Deal, for all its social-democratic, capitalist-critical leanings.

    • September 16, 2019
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    Tax the Rich Before the Rest

    By Chuck Collins, Common Dreams

    Presidential candidates should take a pledge: The middle class should not pay one dollar more in new taxes until the super-rich pay their fair share.

    • September 16, 2019
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    Do We Want to Advance Towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

    By Paz Serra Portilla, Green European Journal

    The age of Enlightenment ushered in progress and left it anchored in our political and economic consciousness. From that moment on, technology has emerged as the key, unique and universal solution to all of our problems. This, coupled with the unprecedented rate of acceleration we are experiencing in today’s world, means that industrial revolutions are occurring before we’ve even had time to assimilate their characteristics and consequences.

    • September 13, 2019
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