Inspiration

COP26

Blah, blah, blah, yay: Another epic fail for the COP, but seeds of growth for our movements

By John Foran, Resilience.org

Introduction As COP 26 began, Greta Thunberg summed up the whole thing quite succinctly using just one word, three times:  Blah blah blah. And as it ended two weeks later, she tweeted: The #COP26 is over. Here’s a brief summary: Blah, blah, blah. But the real work continues outside these halls. And we will never give up, ever [emphasis added]. And indeed, COP 26 was an epic fail, even by the dismal standards of the 25 COPs that preceded it, but at the same time, the global climate justice movement made some much needed forward progress. Source:  Flickr Why this COP was an epic fail The process leading up to the COP was a blatant act of climate injustice Starting with the process leading up till COP 26, we might well ask why was it held at all, under the conditions of COVID? Large numbers of delegates and civil society,...

  • December 1, 2021
COP26 Global Day of Action

To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth

By Stan Cox, Seattle Times

This article first appeared in The Seattle Times. Stan Cox, research scholar in ecosphere studies at The Land Institute, is the author of The Path to a Livable Future: A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic, and The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can. Expectations for the COP26 climate summit were always low. They had dimmed even further by the time the prominent climate activist Vanessa Nakate of Uganda spoke from the main stage on the Glasgow conference’s next-to-last day. Nakate chided her audience for sleepwalking toward catastrophe: “We see business leaders and investors flying into COP on private jets. We see them making fancy speeches. We hear about new pledges and promises. … I have come here to tell you that we don’t believe you.” She added, “I am here to say, prove us wrong.” Throughout the summit, people of all ages and...

  • November 23, 2021
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Episode 62

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 62 Susan Campbell

By Vicki Robin, Susan Campbell, Resilience.org

Since 1967, Dr. Susan Campbell has been a couple’s therapist, relationship coach, speaker, workshop leader, trainer of professional coaches, college professor, certified Radical Honesty trainer, and founding teacher of the Getting Real work. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”

  • November 30, 2021
Wolframite and Casserite in the hands of a miner in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Critical minerals problem: Supply chain issues come to the fore

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

Some familiar metals just moved to a critical minerals lists in the United States as supply chain difficulties made even nickel and zinc supplies problematic. Will bringing manufacturing "back home" really solve the problem?

  • November 28, 2021
Farm for the Future

Regenerative agriculture in the Amazon

By Lars Hillewaere, Ecosystem Restoration Camps

EcoAraguaia Farm of the Future is a former cattle ranch in the Amazon rainforest with a big mission: to show the world how producing food, restoring nature, and creating livelihoods can go hand in hand. The key to all of this? Regenerative agriculture: a holistic system for managing the land that integrates people, planet, and profit.

  • November 17, 2021
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The Divestment Movement’s Big Month

By John R. Platt, The Revelator

Investors, foundations, universities and governments pulled their assets from fossil fuel companies in record numbers in October.

  • November 16, 2021

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 61 Miki Kashtan

By Vicki Robin, Miki Kashtan, Resilience.org

Miki Kashtan is a “practical visionary”, exploring the application of the principles and tools of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to social transformation. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”

  • November 16, 2021
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A Revolution of the Heart

By Justin Kenrick, Bella Caledonia

We need to move from civil disobedience to political disobedience. We need to move from captured corporate representative democracy (democracy in name only) to the real and deep democracy of deliberative peoples and citizens assemblies.

  • November 16, 2021
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