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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?

  • February 8, 2023
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Poverty amid plenty: A world fragmented by inequality

By Liz Theoharis, Tom Dispatch

  • February 8, 2023
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Of Maps & Places (part 1)

By James R. Martin, The R-word

  • February 8, 2023

LATEST ARTICLES

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Avoid the agricultural treadmill by moving food into the civil sphere

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.

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Gaya Herrington: “Humanity’s Soul: Life or Growth?”

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).

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Renewables will be world’s top electricity source within three years, IEA data reveals

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.

French citizen's assembly

Making a movement of movements to restore the common good

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.

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As US-EU trade tensions rise, conflicting carbon tariffs could undermine climate efforts

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.

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A Degrowth Housing Vision for Maine

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.

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How can nature-based solutions help cities achieve their climate goals?

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.

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Czech CAP Strategic Plan – Redistributive Payments and the Counter-Productive Tension Between Small and Big

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.

A Call to Defend Bicycling Infrastructure: Why Are We Neglecting Something So Essential?

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.

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What is the Debt Ceiling?

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.

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How Black History Paves the Way for a Just Black Future

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.

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Permaculture for Climate Change Resilience in Mexico

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.

EDITOR’S PICKS

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January: Planting an Idea.

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.

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The Enemy’s Ring and Our Ethical Quandary

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.

ONLINE COURSE

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Think Resilience Course

By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute

Think Resilience Lesson 16: Globalization

By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute

Think Resilience Lesson 6: Political & Economic Management

By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org

Think Resilience Lesson 5: Pollution

By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org

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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.

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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.

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The Energy Crisis, Renewable Energies and RR+E

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.

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Brexit Bites – Farming in Britain after CAP

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.

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Oil companies and the windfalls of war

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?

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Yes, Britain is corrupt. But it’s a lot worse than you think

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.

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Binna Choi of the Casco Art Institute: Curating Art through Commoning

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.

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Fusion Energy: A Different Take

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.

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