By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Law enforcement agencies are increasingly hoovering up data from social media, online shopping sites, and various other online sources to track suspects and to 'predict' crime and unrest. The industry providing the software has every incentive to write code that will exaggerate the threats.
By Rex Weyler, energyskeptic.com
By Timothy Wise, Million Belay, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
By Rob Dietz, Resilience.org
Even though I’ve written extensively on ecological economics and community resilience, I still feel all-too indoctrinated by our global throw-away economy. I have to remind myself to think first of local options and go the repair route whenever possible.
By Andy Stirling, Saurabh Arora
Will degrowth as a discourse and movement extend coloniality, by aiming to make just one world out of the many that form the earth’s pluriverse?
By OreOluwa Badaki, Environmental Health News
In order to write creatively about food cultivation, climate change, and social justice, we need to understand how they operate in the world we live in. Imagining a better future, therefore, requires keen and purposeful observations of the present. It requires science.
By Ali Amouzai, Sylvia Kay, Transnational Institute
As NAFSN highlighted the implications of the viral outbreak for the region, it also considered the crisis to be an opportunity to create an alternative to the current unjust and precarious systems we are living under.
By Charlene Spretnak, Great Transition Initiative
Rather than slogging along into the Era of Disasters with incorrect mechanistic assumptions underlying our policies and practices in modernized cultures worldwide, we can, instead, apply the new relational discoveries.
By Stan Cox, Priti Gulati Cox, Resilience.org
A downsizing economy will require a smaller and smaller energy supply; in time, energy demand will become modest enough that it can be fully satisfied with renewable sources, sustainably deployed.
By John Foran, Resilience.org
This impulse toward activism is the sound of love when it roars–when it demands to be heard. The universal is deeply personal.
By Jamie Cooke, Green European Journal
What opportunities, and risks, does government participation offer to the Scottish Green Party? And what will happen next?
By Joel Stronberg, illuminem
What will Joe Biden be remembered for? It likely depends on the fate of two pieces of legislation that encompass nearly the entirety of his once-in-a-generation agenda, including infrastructure, climate, voter rights, higher taxes for the wealthy, equal justice for people of color and low incomes, healthcare, and greater assistance for low-income families and children.
By Thomas W. Fraser, Waging Nonviolence
In this spirit, let us set forth with truth, love and justice as our guides, mourning the cost of needless harm while nurturing the promise of radical transformation. Let us move, in a word, from despair to beloved community.
By Pryamvada Gopal, Red Pepper
The documents of victimisation and exploitation are also the documents of agency and resistance – even if, of course, so much has been lost to history.
By Sarah Davis, Strong Towns
And, maybe, the South Town Fork Creek neighborhood will eventually be seen as more of a destination, rather than somewhere you speed past on your way to and from downtown.
By Justin Kenrick, Eva Schonveld, Global Tapestry of Alternatives
The climate chaos that we are witnessing makes it inescapably clear that dominating others harms oneself, and that this system of domination will inevitably end—whether through ecological disasters or our collective action.
By Deniss Martinez, Environmental Health News
We know the best way to counteract the destruction of land is to love the land. Love it radically and fiercely. After all, we are the land.
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 Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers
This is the story of power—humanity’s power over nature and the power of some people over others.
By Brian Lloyd, Resilience.org
Now that we have glimpsed for the first time a planet-wide threat to all that lives and breathes, we might acknowledge at long last that we have been poorly served by a mode of understanding that must turn everything into the same kind of lock - the same mechanism - before it can proceed.
By Ashish Kothari, Global Tapestry of Alternatives
Lets go back to basics. Democracy = demos + cracy, rule of (or by) the people. The power to take decisions is inherent to each one of us, it is part of being human.
By Vicki Robin, Kate Raworth, Roman Krznaric, Resilience.org
Together, Kate Raworth and Roman Krznaric address the one core question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Richard E. Vodra, Advisor Perspectives
We get a startling overview of a self-directing complex system integrating economics and the physical world in Carey King’s recent book: The Economic Superorganism: Beyond the Competing Narratives on Energy, Growth, and Policy.
By Alex Hartzog, Maura Stephens, System Change not Climate Change
New research shows that as well as harming sea animals from the smallest fish to the largest whales to entire coral reefs, plastics and microplastics are dangerous to human health.
By Piyali Banergee, The Malaysian Insight
A MAJOR economic and societal catastrophe may soon confront one of Southeast Asia’s most important economies: Malaysia.