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Movements are vying for political power — is ‘co-governance’ the answer?

By Mark Engler, Paul Engler, Waging Nonviolence

Those promoting co-governance describe it as a new relationship between social movements and the candidates they help win office — a partnership in which activists and elected officials work to maintain a long-term relationship, closely coordinate strategy and advance grassroots priorities.

  • May 27, 2022
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Ukraine | the Green Road of Ecovillages – Communities that Protect

By Anastasiya Volkova, ARC2020

  • May 27, 2022
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Supporting Indigenous Practices

By Alejandro Argumedo, Great Transition Initiative

  • May 27, 2022

LATEST ARTICLES

copper mine

The struggle for what’s essential

By Jen Moore, Foreign Policy In Focus

Whether communities are fighting to address mining harms or standing in the way of these unwanted projects, their struggles are potent examples of the sort of reimagining and digging in for fundamental change that Arundhati Roy urged at the start of this pandemic.

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A response to Adam Lee: Is degrowth wrong?

By Timothée Parrique, Timothée Parrique blog

I miss critiques of degrowth. A few years back, a single online search for the term would unleash a stream of fury. But no more. In fact, I cannot remember the last time I stumbled upon a well-argued critique. Why degrowth is wrong by Adam Lee is definitely not one of them – not even close...

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Building a regenerative future

By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium

Many of us are already nurturing the potential of a regenerative future and regenerative cultural impulses are connecting people and communities to their places and bioregions.

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Radical Conservation: Misdirections, New Directions

By Bram Büscher, Robert Fletcher, Great Transition Initiative

Imagining conservation outside the capitalist box is a liberating exercise, countering eco-anxieties and catastrophic nightmares, while releasing positive collective energy. A movement united around a convivial conservation vision would be a powerful change agent in the Great Transition.

Slow Water

Welcome to Selsey, a community that welcomed back the marsh.

By Erica Gies, Hakai Magazine

In letting go, in providing space for coastal ecosystems, we acknowledge the power of waterlands—to hold water, to hold carbon, to hold life, including us.

Episode 57

Hippos in the Bayou: Human Hubris and the Ecological Mayhem of Introduced Species (Episode 57 of Crazy Town)

By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org

What kind of thinking leads to the unleashing of exotic species on unsuspecting ecosystems? Hint: it’s certainly not systems thinking or critical thinking – in fact, thinking may not be involved at all!

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Home Soil

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

Soil is not dirt. It is not a pile of fine-ground rock and biological detritus. It is not even a home for mycelium and microorganisms, annelids and insects, roots and burrowing chordates. It is the sum of all those things living together.

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The Whole World is an Ecovillage

By Ryan Luckey, Leticia Rigatti, Grassoles

If we see the whole world as an EcoVillage, we have a new lens through which to perceive our challenges, and new possibilities to consider.

solar district heating plant

Goodbye Russian gas, hello rapid decarbonisation

By Simon Pirani, Open Democracy

While business lobbyists hope to slow down the European Commission’s plans to cut Russian imports and reduce gas consumption, climate policy campaigners want to speed up these efforts.

work

A shorter workweek may increase worker productivity — but that’s not why we need one

By Robert Raymond, Shareable

Studies show that a shorter workweek is healthier for people and the planet — but much of the conversation is focused on its impact on worker productivity or efficiency. This is a big mistake.

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1.5 degrees Paris climate target not ‘safe or appropriate’ given climate tipping point risks, ‘major rethink’ required: new report

By David Spratt, Ian Dunlop, Climate Code Red

Climate tipping points in the Antarctica, the Arctic and the Amazon are at risk of being reached before or at the current level of global warming of 1.2 degrees Celsius, requiring a “major rethink” of global climate goals and the action necessary to achieve them, according to a recent report.

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Exit Stage Left: What Might It Mean for US Climate Policy

By Joel Stronberg, The JBS Group

Staffers are to politicians as canaries are to coal miners. When they stop singing, there’s a problem. Key Biden staffers are beginning to leave the administration.

EDITOR’S PICKS

Farmer in Cameroon

Why the UN must rely more on indigenous wisdom and less on fossil fuels

By Jeremy Jiménez, Resilience.org

It is time for the United Nations and its various agencies to recognize that its top-down organizational structure is not suited to address our myriad ecological crises, and rather use its influence to advocate for, and allocate its resources to support, land custodianship for the millions of indigenous communities keeping alive the knowledge of how to live within the bounty of what our mother Earth provides.

Sims Hill Shared Harvest CSA

Just… Stop…

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

To effect real change you have to do something to create those changes. Change is work, not theatre. If you want tangible benefits, you have to craft something more tangible than a message.

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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 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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Reclaiming Your Community

By Majora Carter, Penguin Random House

How can we solve the problem of persistent poverty in low-status communities? Majora Carter argues that these areas need a talent-retention strategy, just like the ones companies have.

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Titanic Lifeboat

Lashing together a life raft: Covid-19 strategies for the left

By James Meadway, Red Pepper

There is little space for optimism in the world we are entering, but instead an urgent need to respond to its demands with a sober sense of its constrained possibilities. Our aim should not be to build utopia, but to lash together a life raft.

Davos, Switzerland

The failed ideology of Davos

By Rupert Read, Resilience.org

The bottom-line is that SDG 8, requiring the pursuit of ‘economic growth’,  actually undermines all the other SDGs. Growth is not a good thing. It is not necessary. And it will soon in any case be ending.

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Helium: Longtime ‘canary in the coal mine’ signals more trouble

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

Peak Helium! For each and every resource, we as a society have assumed that we will always find the substitutes we need in the quantities we require at the prices we can afford by the time we need them. We are now testing that belief with regard to helium.

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The Cost of Living Crisis & the Coming Crash

By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website

Driven by fossil fuels, powering new technologies, society (and the global climate) has been completely changed. But like all celebrations, that process is arguably coming to an end; and like all the best parties, those who have had a really good time don’t want it to stop!

The Great Simplification

The Great Simplification – Full Movie

By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification

This 32 minute animation -in 4 Acts - describes the backdrop for The Great Simplification - an economic/cultural transition on our near term horizon.

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Episode 56

The Stopwatch of Doom: How the Cult of Productivity Torpedoes Sustainability and Equity (Episode 56 of Crazy Town)

By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org

Welcome to the dehumanizing world of scientific management, where business gurus and middle managers view workers as resources, and where a cult-like devotion to productivity has invaded almost all facets of daily life.

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