By Eva Schonveld, Justin Kenrick, Radical Ecological Democracy
As the sun goes down on a system that cannot save us from itself, our only option is to bring that system to an end. But what is that system, and how do we replace it?
By Vicki Robin, John de Graaf, Resilience.org
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
I think it’s fair to say that the recent Energy Outlook from the International Energy Agency represents a significant moment in the discourse around renewable energy.
By Ruby Irene Pratka, Shareable
The JCRT initiative aims to support companies that create safe, decent and meaningful jobs in the circular economy for job seekers facing systemic barriers.
By Nathan Thanki, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice
The issues being debated in the UNFCCC are recurring and best seen in the context of a long-term struggle between the Global North and Global South over who should take responsibility for tackling climate change and its impacts, which plays out at political levels as well as across all the technical negotiating items.
By Carol Bardi, Jacob Smessaert, Joe Herbert, Nathan Barlow, Degrowth.de
Degrowthers have recently seemed to find a lot of inspiration in Erik Olin Wright’s framework of political strategies for transformations beyond capitalism. In this blog post, we wish to highlight some crucial insufficiencies of Wright’s framework in relation to degrowth transformations...
By Sandor Katz, Resilence.org
Like any other manifestation of culture, fermentation practices must be used in order to maintain relevance and stay alive. We must cherish and celebrate the diversity of fermentation practices around the world, and document and share them.
By Ian Scoones, ESRC STEPS Centre
The secret has been exposed, people have rediscovered the value of the countryside during the pandemic and the debate has become even more pressing as further restrictive measures are proposed for those who most rely on mobility and access in the countryside.
By Tom Whipple, The Energy Bulletin
Futures rallied last week on concerns that rising consumption is racing ahead of supply. Oil prices rose early on Thursday, with Brent Crude rallying to $86.10—the highest price since October 2018.
By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism
Many have made millions on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies—literally from nothing—but now things have started getting really kooky!
By Blair Fix, Economics from the Top Down
In this essay, I explore the idea that the size composition of human institutions, as it exists today, provides a record of cultural evolution.
By Patrick Holden, Sustainable Food Trust
I believe this situation is applicable to the majority of the world’s farmers – in front of us is a monumental task, we need not only to maintain but to build soil fertility, which we must and can do by commencing a new relationship of the soils under our management, harvesting and growing the body of experience and evidence of the pioneers of soil building both historic and living.
By Adam Ramsay, Open Democracy
If the first pillar of climate change negotiations is mitigation – how can we work together to stop carbon emissions? And the second is adaptation – how can we change to cope with the changing climate? Then loss and damage is the third – an idea originally muted in the 1990s by small island states, but gaining increasing traction.
By Kawika B. Winter, The Revelator
Now’s the moment for us to learn from our eco-civilizations of the past to ensure we can have a civilization in our future.
By Ian Angus, Climate & Capitalism
Enclosure — the transformation of common resources into private property — was a fundamental feature of the rise of capitalism in early modern England. It involved not only new ways of using the land, but also, as both cause and effect, new ways of thinking about it.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
She is Woman the Seeker, Woman the Gatherer. She is the half of the hunter-gatherer society that might truly have fed humanity — because she still does so today all over the world.
By David Graeber, David Wengrow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.
By Philip Clayton, Kelli M Archie, Jonah Sachs, Evan Steiner, One Project
The New Possible offers twenty-eight unique visions of what can be, if instead of choosing to go back to normal, we choose to go forward to something far better.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
I believe commoning remains one of the more promising avenues that we have for addressing the profound structural challenges of contemporary politics, economics, and culture.
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Network
The radical imagination is something that emerges when, as I was mentioning, people come together to struggle against the reality that they’ve been forced into.
By Heira Hardiyanti, Post-Growth Institute
Cooperatives are social and economic organizations that strengthen communities — especially in times of hardship.
By Jason Hickel, The New Internationalist
Southern governments are captive to the demands of international capital, which prevents them from meeting their people’s real needs. MMT offers a way out.
By Stan Cox, Resilience.org
And, to complete the circle, neither racial justice nor health justice nor environmental justice nor climate justice can be fully secured without turning the existing economy inside out, dedicating it to meeting society’s needs, not feeding the net worth of the plutocrats.
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
Just as the humble American pika has developed strategies to avoid overshooting its environmental limits, we can and must rein in the extreme powers that currently threaten our success and even our survival.