Sharon Adetoro: How to Make the Movement More Inclusive? Do the Work!
By Manchester Climate Monthly Staff, Manchester Climate Monthly
The Environmental movement is heavily white and middle class. Both of which we are not. There is an uncomfortableness about entering that space.
How Libraries of Things Build Resilience, Fight Climate Change, and Bring Communities Together
By Tom Llewellyn, Shareable
Libraries of Things are both starting to expand to multiple locations, and also connecting with other similar or complementary organizations to form local and regional networks.
“Falter”: In New Book, Bill McKibben Asks If the Human Game Has Begun to Play Itself Out
By Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Democracy Now!
Thirty years ago, in 1989, Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature, the first book about climate change for a general audience. He has just published a new book; it’s titled Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Maxfield Kaniger’s Kanbe’s Markets: A Piece for the Food Insecurity Puzzle
By Katherine Walla, Food Tank
On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Executive Director of Kanbe’s Markets Maxfield Kaniger talks about the market’s model to reduce food waste and food insecurity.
The World’s Happiest People already Have a Green New Deal, and they Love it
By George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence
According to the latest report from the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the Nordics are once again in the top tier of the World’s Happiest People.
Climate Change Mitigation: Is it a Good Idea to Sweep the Carbon Under the Carpet?
By Ugo Bardi, Cassandra's legacy
But fossil fuels are doomed by depletion in any case, so what sense does it make investing the few resouces we still have in a technology that doesn't have a future? In the end, CCS is mainly a failure of the imagination: we can and we should do much better than sweeping the carbon underground.
American Conservatism, and the Socialist Specter which Haunts it Still
By Russell Arben Fox, In media res
Socialism is the bogeyman that conservatives of all stripes find easy to associate with all that distorts or corrupts those thinks they, in theory at least, hold most dear: namely, civil society, and the goods which social interactions in and through one's community, church, and family make possible.
The International Day of Peasant’s Struggle – Some Notes from the Farm
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
A happy International Day of Peasant’s Struggle to you. Talking of which, I’m still struggling away trying to write my book about peasants while the rest of the farm crew are up in London protesting about government inaction on climate change, which means I’m having to do a bit of proper work as well for a change.
The German Edition of Our Book — Free, Fair and Alive — is Launched!
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Our new framework – the Triad of Commoning -- focuses on the commons in three interrelated aspects – the social, the political (peer governance), and the economic (provisioning).
Why a Green New Deal needs a Deep Green Movement
By Chaitanya Kumar, Gurpreet Bola, Open Democracy
As two social justice activists, the narrative around movement-led political action is heartening. It opens up the opportunity to practice intersectional policy making that has been central to racial justice movements for decades.
From Oil Crisis to Energy Revolution – How Nations Once Before Planned to Kick the Oil Habit
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
As the world now gets to grips with the realities of making a rapid transition away from fossil fuels in the next decade, is it time to look again at how quickly we moved back in the 1970s, when we had to?
Colonialist Economics – The Contrast with Indigenous Land Care Principles
By Brian Davey, Feasta
Many, though by no means all, indigenous peoples practiced sustainable land care and used concepts that contrast strongly with modern economics thinking.
The Road of Social Development and Solidarity with the Poor
By Luis Razeto Migliaro, Grassroots Economic Organizing
The road from the reality of poverty to the solidarity economy is not opened by the poor alone in their efforts to address their needs and problems.
How Tribes Are Harnessing Cutting-Edge Data to Plan for Climate Change
By Terri Hansen, YES! magazine
The tribes in the Pacific Northwest are leaders in climate adaptation and have mounted multifaceted responses to the threats they face, Krosby said. CIG’s tailored, state-of-the-art climate data further provide resources and data at a level of detail not yet available to most cities around the country.
Energy Equity: Bringing Solar Power to Low-Income Communities
By Maria Galluci, Grist
Community or shared solar is broadly defined as a project where multiple participants own or lease shares in a mid-sized solar facility usually between 500 kilowatts and 5 megawatts, and receive credits that lower their monthly utility bills based on how much power the facility delivers to the grid.
A New Chance for Climate Justice?
By Nathan Thanki, Open Democracy
To truly step up to the plate and play their part in a resurgent, ecologically-minded global justice movement, groups in the North will have to put meat on the bones of the system change slogan by articulating clear alternatives.
Sanity Please
By Vicki Robin, Resilience.org
I have a suggestion for a road to sanity. At the moment, it is a thought experiment, but one that is legal and actually common place: consider the Cabinet as the deliberative as well as an advisory body that crafts wise policies.
Why Don’t You Have an Electric Bike Already?
By Karen Lynn Allen, Musings
If you’re already making most of your daily trips by bike or on foot, you don’t need to read further. An electric bike is unlikely to improve your life. For everyone else, read on!
Zombies, Magic Rocks, and Techno-utopia : Episode 6 of Crazy Town
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
In this episode, Asher, Rob, and Jason search for reasons why the movie theater is so obsessed with Armageddon and the political theater offers empty promises of infinite progress, when the reality is likely to be somewhere in the messy middle.
‘Regenerative Agriculture’: World-Saving Idea or Food Marketing Ploy?
By Nathanael Johnson, Grist
For people feeling that they have fallen from grace, who yearn to return to a time without fossil fuels, the idea of regenerative agriculture could hold real power.
Peak Oil Review: 15 April 2019
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, Peak-Oil.org
Oil prices continued to creep up last week closing out at $71.55 in London and $63.89 in New York, making the sixth consecutive week of gains.
Spring Memories of Why We Must Protect Wetlands and Streams
By Dave Evans, Resilience.org
In short, try again. EPA should respond to legal challenges to the 2015 Clean Water Rule with targeted refinements of current policy, as opposed to an about-face on the policy that was developed in full compliance with administrative procedures and documented with thorough scientific and legal rationales.
Our Actions Create the Future: A Response to Jem Bendell
By Jeremy Lent, Patterns Of Meaning blog
I believe that hope has a crucial role in healing, and in driving our engagement in effecting the deep transformation we need.
Responding to Green Positivity Critiques of Deep Adaptation
By Jem Bendell, Jem Bendell blog
Since my paper on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos came out in July 2018 and “went viral,” there have been some criticisms of the concept and what people think it implies.
Life imitates art: Norway rejects oil prospecting in sensitive Arctic islands
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The strange truth about one of the world's largest oil exporters is that it has been planning for a post-oil society since the discovery of its oil resources. Norway's move to protect sensitive arctic areas is just the latest example of how Norwegians think about our energy future.
Transition Streets Gets an Update!
By Leslie MacKenzie, Transition US
This 2019 revision of the Transition Streets handbook not only captures what's new, it includes additional information to consider in how we think about the lives we lead and the changes we want to make.
What is a Permaculture Convergence?
By Ryan Sandford-Blackburn, Permaculture Association
A conference, convention, gathering of grand wizards. Just some of the things I've heard a convergence mistakenly called over the years. If you've never been to one then you're missing out - but missing out on what!? What is a convergence?
From Australia to Africa, Fences are Stopping Earth’s Great Animal Migrations
By Bill Laurance, Penny van Oosterzee, The Conversation
For time immemorial, many wildlife species have survived by undertaking heroic long-distance migrations. But many of these great migrations are collapsing right before our eyes.
New Money Meets the Cost of Change: How Local Currencies Save Economies and Communities, and Help them Flourish
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
Of course the economic crisis was fundamental to the evolution of alternative economics in Greece. Although some thinkers have long advocated other ways of using and running currencies, most barter systems arise in times of upheaval where trust in the banks is eroded or they withdraw liquidity.
The Path To Liberating Humanity Is The Same As The Path To Liberating The Individual
By Caitlin Johnstone, Medium
The path to enlightenment is the process of becoming clearly aware of all the different aspects of the way you operate inside, which enables you to relate to life as it’s actually appearing
Funding Transformation
By Fergal Finnegan, Niamh McCrea, openDemocracy
A healthy participatory democracy relies on forms of community development that support effective mobilisation at the local level and encourage advanced capacities for democratic decision making and critical thinking.
Climate Change is Fueling Wildfires around the World. Can Indigenous Knowledge Help us Manage Them?
By Viki Cramer, Ensia
Combining traditional knowledge with modern science and technology could reduce loss of property and human life from out-of-control blazes.
What are Systemic Alternatives?
By Pablo Solón, Systemic Alternatives
The premise of systemic alternatives is that the environmental, economic, social, geopolitical, institutional and civilizational crises are part of a whole, are interrelated and feed into one another.
When People Downsize to Tiny Houses, they Adopt more Environmentally Friendly Lifestyles
By Maria Saxton, The Conversation
Interest is surging in tiny homes – livable dwelling units that typically measure under 400 square feet. Much of this interest is driven by media coverage that claims that living in tiny homes is good for the planet.
ExxonMobil Misled the Public. Now they’re Trying to Mislead the European Parliament
By Geoffrey Supran, EurActiv.com
Although ExxonMobil now claim to support climate action, they continue to misrepresent scientific work in order to protect profits and protect themselves from liability or responsibility.
Existential risk, Neoliberalism and UN Climate Policymaking
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
International climate policymaking has failed to avoid a path of catastrophic global warming. Two often-overlooked causes of this failure are how climate-science knowledge has been produced and utilised by the United Nation’s twin climate bodies and how those organisations function.
Energy Transition in India and Southeast Asia, Part 1
By Chris Nelder, Energy Transition Show
At the same time, India is busily electrifying 18,000 villages, pushing forward on the electrification of transportation, and developing demand-side technologies that together are more likely to make India one of the world’s great success stories in energy transition than one of the world’s largest upcoming carbon emitters.
Food and Water: Plugging the Drain before Resources Dry Up
By Daniel Matthews, Sustainable Food Trust
This tug-of-war, in its most elementary terms, is one in which agricultural water use competes with each person’s daily water requirements.
Neoliberalism Promised Freedom – Instead it Delivers Stifling Control
By George Monbiot, The Guardian blog
By rolling back the state, neoliberalism was supposed to have allowed autonomy and creativity to flourish. Instead, it has delivered a semi-privatised authoritarianism.
A Search for Alternatives in India
By Ashish Kothari, Pallav Das, Empowering Nonviolence
We’re committed and excited about our attempts at cooperation between academics, movement activists, creative thinkers, and practitioners of alternatives to challenge the ever-tightening grip of corporate fundamentalism on the economy and the environment.
Trump’s Hypocritical Oaths on the Environment
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
It is being reported that the Trump campaign has put out a call for a list of climate change victories that can be attributed to Trump’s time in office.
A Green New Deal for Agriculture
By Raj Patel, Jim Goodman, RajPatel.org
The Green New Deal’s success depends on refashioning this common sense. To rewrite common sense is to unpick the alliances that the current bloc works to maintain, to find the fault lines that can pry that bloc apart, and to develop the organizational links that can build a counter-hegemonic bloc.