Light Posting from 18th November to 8th December
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
Due to editorial holiday, there will be light posting from 18th November to 8th December. Regular posting will resume on 9th December.
Review of “Plastic: An Autobiography” by Allison Cobb
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
"Plastic" is a beautifully written, intricate mosaic that weaves memoir, poetry, cultural and scientific history, chemistry, biography, etymology, journalistic reportage and self-reflection into a penetrating rumination on humanity’s relationship with plastic.
Around the world in a shopping cart
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
In that paradise of capitalist productivity, who besides Jeff Bezos will still have enough income to fill their shopping carts?
Of grain and gulags: a note on work, labour and self-ownership
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
Self-possession implies property in some sense – being able to claim a personal right to generate wellbeing from the world we share with other people and organisms.
Blah, blah, blah, yay: Another epic fail for the COP, but seeds of growth for our movements
By John Foran, Resilience.org
The winners of COP 26 were the indefatigable voices of civil society, whose actions were loud and clear: on the final Friday, many, many organizations walked out of the COP in protest, reminded me of the walkout I witnessed and took part in at COP 19 in Warsaw in 2013.
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?”
What’s Next for Biden’s Build Back Better Act?
By Joel Stronberg, illuminem
Well, it finally happened. An infrastructure bill has found its way onto a president’s desk for signing. Affectionately called the BIF in the halls of Congress and along the K Street corridor where the cognoscenti congregate, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework was truly that—bipartisan.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 29 November 2021
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
The discovery of a new coronavirus variant named Omicron triggered global alarm on Friday as countries rushed to suspend travel from southern Africa, and the equity and commodity markets on both sides of the Atlantic suffered their most significant drop in more than a year.
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?
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 23 November 2021
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
Crude futures moved sharply lower on Friday as the markets weighed the impacts of new pandemic lockdowns in Europe and a stronger US dollar. WTI settled down $2.91 at $76.10, and Brent moved $2.35 lower to settle at $78.89.
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth
By Stan Cox, Seattle Times
Ending the extraction of fossil fuels from the Earth while achieving material sufficiency, equity and justice would move us a long way toward the more livable future that the people who gathered outside COP26 — along with billions of others around the world — are demanding and are standing ready to create.
Can the Green New Deal save us? No it can’t.
By Ted Trainer
Advocates for a Green New Deal are for a collection of admirable goals which it is usually taken for granted can be achieved within a capitalist economy and while the pursuit of economic growth continues. Here is an indication of the main reasons why these assumptions are totally mistaken.
COP26 – Caught in a Net: Agriculture, Climate Change, and the Decarbonisation Agenda
By Chris Maughan, Agroecology Now!
As COP26 draws to a close, this blog offers some reflections on the fraught relationship between the mainstream process and the social movements, and what this means for the fight for a just and agroecological transition.