A Brief History of Consumer Culture
By Kerryn Higgs, MIT Press Reader
Over the course of the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.
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OST Okays legal action against BLM
By Talli Nauman, Native Sun News Today
The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council has authorized legal action in response to a federal Bureau of Land Management decision allowing oil-and-gas fracking on a 1.5-million-acre swatch of unceded Ft. Laramie Treaty territory in Wyoming, the Native Sun News Today learned Jan. 6.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 25 January 2021
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
The course of the coronavirus continued to roil the oil markets last week. After a 10 percent gain since the beginning of the year, oil reversed last week as new outbreaks of the virus accompanied by recent lockdowns appeared worldwide.
Podcast from the Prairie: “The Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man”
By Robert Jensen, Wes Jackson, Podcast from the Prairie
In this episode of “Podcast from the Prairie,” Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen discuss the creativity of both humans and the larger living world.
The latest story of toxic deceit and delay: PFAS
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
PFAS, a toxic group of industrial chemicals, are now pervasive in the environment including in the bodies of nearly every human tested.
Telling the Story of the Digitize my Community Initiative
By Uche Isieke, Resilience.org
With the social media tool in our hands, we can transform, build resilience and achieve sustainable development for our various communities.
Healthy Crops: A New Agricultural Revolution
By Gaia Foundation staff, Gaia Foundation
First published in 1985 by agronomist Francis Chaboussou, Healthy Crops: A New Agricultural Revolution is republished online in full here for the first time!
The Darkest Hour Is Just Before the Dawn. How to Transform Trumpism After Trump: On Post-Truth, Post-Democracy, and Post-Humanity.
By Otto Scharmer, Medium
Transformation literacy is the capacity of a system to respond to challenges of disruption in ways that move beyond efforts to merely optimize the status quo.
Lakota call out inequity in law enforcement at U.S. Capitol riot
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
The difference in law enforcement handling of peaceful Native pipeline resisters compared to that of the violent mob that breached the U.S. Capitol Building was an inequity not lost on Indian Country.
Cooperation and Chocolate: The Story of One Colombian Community’s Quest for Peace
By Agostino Petroni, YES! magazine
Two decades after its declaration of neutrality, the community still carries on its peace crusade. Despite many difficulties, they are hanging on to their collective work thanks to the precious cacao cultivation.
The Rubble of Empire
By Rebecca Gordon, Tom Dispatch
How can you tell when your empire is crumbling? Some signs are actually visible from my own front window here in San Francisco.
What if a revolution in our relation to land unlocked a revolution of the imagination?
By Rob Hopkins, Josina Calliste, Chris Smaje, Rob Hopkins blog
In today’s episode we bring together Josina Calliste, a health professional and community organiser who is one of the co-founders of Land in Our Names (LION), a black-led collective addressing land inequalities affecting black people and people of colour’s ability to farm and grow food in Britain, and Chris Smaje, author of the book ‘A Small Farm Future‘ and the brilliant blog of the same name.
Review: Capitalism and Environmental Collapse by Luiz Marques
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Capitalism and Environmental Collapse is an exhaustive summary of today’s plethora of existential ecological threats, followed by an equally comprehensive discussion of what author Luiz Marques deems to be the core fallacies at their root.
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On the Possibility of Speaking a Foreign Language in One’s Native Tongue: Why Our Reskilling Conversations Matter
By Clifford Dean Scholz, Green Hand Initiative
Despite the fact that the world of the unnamed vastly exceeds the extent of the named world, most people choose to inhabit a consciousness bounded by the naming of things.
Putting the Heart Back in the Valley by Putting the Fire Back in the Ground
By Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, Macska Moksha Press
Repairing the land is directly linked to repairing a way of life. Not just an ecosystem is being restored, but “home.”
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Enabling sustainable food systems. Innovators’ handbook
By FAO, FAO
This handbook is written for “sustainable food systems innovators” by a group of innovators from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe who are leading initiatives to grow, share, sell and consume more sustainable foods in their local contexts.
The Perennial Turn: Contemporary Essays from the Field
By New Perennials Publishing
This anthology is the first project in the New Perennials Publishing venture. Our goal is to provide thoughtful analyses on crucial social/ecological questions, all at no cost to readers.
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From global drag to radical regionalization
By Jan Juffermans, Resilience.org
For regionalization, not everything has to be done on a small scale or regionally. It is a search for the optimal scale in terms of transport, energy use, production options, mineral cycle and many other aspects.
The Earth Does Not Belong to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk
By Liz Theoharis, Tom Dispatch
After all, the best hope of successfully navigating the crises of 2021 and beyond must involve King’s dream of building a multi-racial fusion movement to reconstruct society from the bottom up.
A Christmas Carol and the Rise of the Debt Society in the 21st Century
By Keiko Yokoyama, Resilience.org
Dickens' story embodies the nature of contemporary economic problems which we face, in terms of interest, debt traps and the meaning of the financial economy for both the haves and the have-nots.
A fast plant for rapid shifts in construction – how the ancient supercrop Hemp can help build low carbon homes
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
There is now a huge opportunity to scale up this kind of building, while also bringing a decent living to farmers from a crop that is environmentally sustainable to grow.
Get Real Canada, Get to Zero
By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
If going for zero succeeds as it has in Australia, Vietnam, Taiwan and New Zealand, then Canadians will live their lives normally with vaccine programs as part of the solution — as opposed to the only solution.
Growth without economic growth
By R. Strand, Z. Kovacic, S. Funtowicz, L. Benini, A. Jesus, European Environment Agency
Economic growth is closely linked to increases in production, consumption and resource use and has detrimental effects on the natural environment and human health.