By Richard Heinberg, Resilience
My goal isn’t to come up with new solutions to humanity’s converging crises—because until we have sufficient wisdom, we won’t recognize real solutions, even if they already exist. First wisdom, then action.
By Barbara Trachte, Benjamin Joyeux, Green European Journal
By Theresa Kofler, Niels Jongerius, Open Democracy
By Gabes Torres , YES! magazine
How, then, do we remind ourselves of food’s healing elements, especially in our social connections?
By Patrick Mazza, The Raven
We can find answers in summoning moral courage, finding our center and being present in it, confronting the realities of the world from that center, keeping future generations in focus and living as much as possible in a sense of kindness to others.
By Joshua Frank, TomDispatch
Sadly, fusion won’t save the Arctic from melting, but if we don’t put a stop to it, that breakthrough technology could someday melt us all.
By Magdalena Puniewska, Hakai Magazine
Oysters can be an important protein for the future and a buffer against some climate change impacts only if society can balance competing interests.
By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism
Perhaps we’ll be forced to return to mud baths and vigorous scratching, but hopefully our innovative minds will keep our skin moist and itch-free.
By Erika Schelby, Independent Media Institute
With oceans, countries, populations, and governments inundated by a plague of plastic worldwide, it may be useful to focus on the single-use plastic bag choices made by two cities, in the same U.S. state, located at a distance of only 64 miles (104 km) from each other.
By Murray Grimwood, Resilience.org
This book – and others it references, particularly Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems’ - should be a standard read for university students, but I suspect it will only be read by those who are already-there, or at least already well-on-the-way.
By Joel Stronberg, Medium
IRA projects and those climate-related provisions attributable to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs and the CHIPS and Science Acts are evidence of the economic and environmental benefits of a transition to a low-carbon economy.
By Paul Feather, Resilience.org
If property is part of our essential identity, then destroying property looks a lot like destroying life; and we do use the same word: ‘violence’, to describe destruction of either thing.
By Dana Drugmand, DeSmog Blog
It was another busy year in the courts for climate-related cases. From challenges to fossil fuel and petrochemical expansion to climate lawsuits against Big Oil and national governments, there were notable victories for climate action and accountability in 2022.
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
After more than 100 years of suppressing the West’s fires, land managers and government agencies are finally warming to the idea that fire can be beneficial — and necessary — for many landscapes.
By Adam Ramsay, Open Democracy
One centralised Parliament is much easier for the likes of Rupert Murdoch to influence than a plethora of local authorities at a scale small enough for people to actually meet up and discuss their needs in person.
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 Victor M. Toledo, Voices for Mother Earth
If you ask me what is the most advanced postmodern experience in the world today, that is, the one that traces a hopeful path toward a new civilization, I would undoubtedly answer: the Kurdish movement.
By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium
This article is an attempt to seriously engage with socialist ecomodernism in a way the interview failed to do with degrowth: on its own terms.
By Shozab Raza, Red Pepper
In addition to a global-north induced climate crisis, the scale of Pakistan’s floods has been exacerbated by hydrological infrastructures built over centuries by western imperialism and allied local elites.
By Oxfam staff, Climate and Capitalism
The richest 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 percent of the world’s population, reveals a new Oxfam report today.
By Michelle Chen, YES! magazine
While the first ethnic grocery stores—food retailers catering to a migrant or diasporic culture—in the U.S. opened up during the 19th and early 20th centuries in urban minority neighborhoods in major cities, today, such grocery stores have mushroomed around the country, wherever new migrant communities have sprung up.
By William D. Hartung, Tom Dispatch
Overspending on the military will only dig humanity deeper into a hole that will be ever more difficult to get out of in the relatively short time available to us.