Power: Chapter 4. Power in the Anthropocene
By Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers
With fossil fuels and electrification, and thus greater mobility and instant communications, we have indeed become a human “hive.”
LATEST ARTICLES
Five takeaways from the Harvard Ecological Spiritualities Conference
By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism
So even while there were beautiful reminders of our connection to nature at this conference—talks, posters, and so on—there was, and will continue to be, far more reminders of our broken relationship, which Gaians and other ecologically spiritually minded folk should, and I hope will, continue to work toward healing.
Global Public Law and Climate Change: Evolve or Die
By Thomas Boudreau, MAHB
In essence, GPL, in the first instance, is based upon the fundamental necessity for an international legal order that ensures the self-preservation of nations and nature in the Anthropocene.
‘Food for Free’
By Paul Mobbs
The 1970s surge in ecological awareness saw many books published on our relationship with the natural world. ‘Food for Free’, by Richard Mabey, was published fifty years ago in 1972.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 27 June 2022
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
Headlines for the week of June 20 - June 26
The armed lifeboat
By Nick Buxton, Transnational Institute
Militarised adaptation to climate breakdown is akin, as US journalist Christian Parenti argues, to the politics of the ‘armed lifeboat’ that seeks to secure the wealth of the few while training guns on everyone else.
Focus on Ecosystem Health
By James Arnold, Neva Goodwin, Adam Cross, Laura Orlando, Great Transition Initiative
Conservation, restoration, and participatory management of ecosystems (i.e., from the inside-out) are not only hands-on forms of “engagement with nature,” but also reciprocally restorative practices: restorative for the people involved as well as for the ecosystems undergoing restorative actions.
“We Cannot Delete Our Way Out Of This”: Learning In The Maze
By Beatrice White, Juliane Reppert von Bismarck, Green European Journal
We are ultimately telling children and teachers to slow down, to consume information more deliberately. Share more sparingly and stop and think before you do.
Democracy Rising 22: Deliberation and the Promise of Place
By Susan Clark, Resilience.org
The good news is that when place-based wisdom informs local solutions, the solutions are all the more sustainable.
Weaponization of GMO technology? Obscure federal commission uncovers the danger
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Cheerleaders for new technology tend to ignore the ways in which that technology might be used to harm humans and/or the environment. But there are always people who will figure out how to create such harm.
We Are The Economy
By Amanda Janoo, Post-Growth Institute
Once we see that we are the economy, we realize we can change it — and when we change it, we change the world.
Climate Deniers and the Language of Climate Obstruction
By Stella Levantesi, DeSmog Blog
Understanding how opponents of climate action employ these discourses of delay is essential to recognizing climate disinformation and misinformation, Arena said, and ultimately to disrupting it.
Humanity in the patchwork of life
By Julia Steinberger, Medium.com
This story is on borrowed time. And it’s just a part of a story, a piece of human and living patchwork. Maybe you can borrow it, and make it part of your story too?
EDITOR’S PICKS
Shedding our Fossil Fuel Suit
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
One thing we know for certain about fossil fuels is that they are a finite resource on this planet—slowly developed in select locations over hundreds of millions of years and being used about a million times faster than the rate of production.
The People vs. Petrocracy
By Stan Cox, City Lights Books
Whether it’s carried out by a local movement such as the L.A. Bus Riders Union or continent-spanning drives like the Native campaigns against Big Oil and Gas, no single effort can snuff out fossil fuel extraction and consumption on its own. The mulitplication of such efforts is therefore essential.
ONLINE COURSE
FEATURED RESOURCES
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.
MORE ARTICLES
Building Black Wealth: Understanding the Limits of Black Capitalism
By Robert Raymond, Shareable
Can Black liberation be achieved through individual successes within capitalism — through Black capitalism — as Booker T. Washington suggested? Or can true liberation for Black people in the United States only emerge through a collective struggle against racial capitalism?
Wixárika community takes back financial autonomy in historic vote
By Angelica Almazan, Tracy L. Barnett, Esperanza Project
After four years of struggle, the Wixárika community of San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán in Mezquitic, Jalisco, will directly receive federal resources to manage amongst themselves without the intervention of local officials or political parties.
Greed over Need: Why Neoliberalism Sucks and How It Sabotages Community (Episode 61 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Sheesh! It’s time for something entirely different to replace neoliberalism – maybe “paleoprogressivism?” Calling all wordsmiths!
Learning, not diamond-class carbon markets, is the bridge to landscape scale regeneration
By Isabel Carlisle, Paul Pivcevic, The Bioregional Learning Centre
Changing systems is never hands off: you have to become part of the system. Changing systems has the potential to change everything and everyone implicated in the system.
What does ‘regenerative investment’ mean now that Gaia is changing the rules of the game?
By Isabel Carlisle, Paul Pivcevic, The Bioregional Learning Centre
Unless we can learn and adapt faster than the rate of global systems change, our viability—the basic necessities for human thriving (nested within the imperative of thriving ecosystems and biodiversity) will dwindle to the point at which they cannot sustain us.
Community Land Trusts as a Proactive Model for Post-Capitalist Sustainable New Local Development
By Jon Hanzen, Medium.com
The sociological relevance of a C.L.T. is in developing a community orientation for living a life aligned with autonomous Degrowth and the promotion of New Local Post-Capitalism.