Earth Abuse and the Next Pandemic
By Stan Cox, Resilience.org
Earth abuse is also at the root of the Covid-19 pandemic and the grim likelihood that new pathogens will continue to emerge from other animal species to infect humans.
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Oxford University Has Pledged to Divest from Fossil Fuels – Now it Needs to Sever All Ties to the Industry
By Brigitte Wear, DeSmog Blog
We are disappointed that our university, an influential institution with a moral obligation to lead by example, is so deeply involved in this industry and hope our report will act as a wake-up call, setting an agenda for change.
Living Ecologically Is Illegal
By Melissa Troutman, Mark Ruffalo, YES! magazine
How do we live together, on this planet, in a way that is good for all? This is a question that has driven our work as storytellers for the past six years and inspired our coverage of the Rights of Nature movement.
“Climate Action and the Role of Engineers” Speech at the Engineers Ireland annual conference
By Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland website
I suggest respectfully that the time has long passed for debate on the science, useless apportionments of blame, or idle comparisons. Action is now needed, and I ask all engineers across all branches of engineering to play their role.
LaDonna fights on in the resistance of Native youth
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
As the Standing Rock Sioux Nation prepared for services April 16-19 honoring late water protector LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Native youth carried on the crusade to defend treaty land from pipeline construction
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 19 April 2021
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
Last week, oil prices saw their biggest weekly gain since early March as signs emerged of a recovery from the pandemic gaining traction in the US and China.
Down with Innovation! Long live rights, agency and justice
By Chris Maughan, Colin Anderson, Agroecology Now!
“Innovation” is ubiquitous as a way to describe beneficial societal change. Yet, the innovation language is deeply tied to a technology-centric and top-down ways of thinking that shackles the imagination and limits the pathways for change.
Permablitzing Our Way to Community
By Mark Juedeman, Shawn McFarland
Developed in Australia, a permablitz is an informal gathering in which a group of at least two people come together to: a) create or add to edible gardens, b) share skills related to permaculture and sustainable living, c) build community, and d) have fun!
Saudi Arabia Goes the way of the Garamantes. Google Earth Confirms the Collapse of the Water Supply
By Ugo Bardi, The Seneca Effect
Just like the ancient Garamantes, the Saudi Arabians were able to overcome the aridity of their land by using fossil water. But when they ran out of it, it was time over for them.
Thoughts on Activism
By Frederic Jennings, Resilience.org
Having spent a good deal of my life on projects intended to “save the world” (which decidedly does NOT want to be saved!), being confronted with the idea of sharing some of my thoughts about “activism” has provoked a flood of ideas about what to say on such an intriguing subject.
What We Encourage
By Karen Lynn Allen, Musings
I’ll also point out that while one set of choices is promoted, reinforced, and made as convenient as possible, the other set is shamed, challenged, or made as dangerous as possible.
Asking the right questions about human genetic engineering
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
It's refreshing to find a reporter capable of asking probing questions about the the dangers of human genetic engineering.
How to create a little free community pantry or fridge
By JoAnna Haugen, Shareable
As communities become more complex and the number of challenges they face increases, it is important to create a foundation of support that residents can lean on at any time: Enter little free fridge or pantrys.
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The Needful Garden
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
Our systems do not meet our needs. None of them are designed to do so. It is time to make new systems.
The Paradoxes of Localism
By Stone Age Herbalist, Resilience.org
I want my grandchildren to visit other places and countries and see different, unknown foods. I want them to feel like the world isn't one giant airport lounge with sourdough and avocado toast on every menu.
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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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Ruminations on Resilience
By Frederic Jennings, Resilience
This is the main notion, and the importance, of resilience. The whole life process is one of ongoing disequilibrium movement to which we must adapt to survive.
Discounting the Future and Climate Chaos, or… the Story of the Dueling Economists (Episode 37 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Jason, Rob, and Asher explore why the discount rate, and discounting the future more broadly, is so deadly important, and why the number 0 is what our kids and grandkids deserve.
Cities beyond bureaucracy: Exploring commons-based strategies
By Yavor Tarinski, Towards Autonomy
I think these are the two conflicting urban visions today: the one is about a top-down enforced homogenization and zoning of the city, and then there is the possibility for the citizens themselves to engage autonomously in morphing their urban environment.
The greatest debt crisis in history is upon us
By John Smith, Open Democracy
We must engage with the just struggle to write off the uncollectible foreign debt which, aggravated by the social and economic effects of the pandemic, is threatening the survival of the peoples of the South.
How a Seattle Neighborhood Confronted Food Insecurity in the Pandemic
By Lornet Turnbull, YES! magazine
Over the past year, more than 20 food supply organizations have contributed in one form or another to providing hot meals to residents through the community center.
The commons
By Sergio Ruiz Cayuela, Uneven Earth
Autonomy refers to the capacity of a given system to self-manage. In other words, the more autonomy that a commons has, the less dependent it will be on external inputs.
