By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Law enforcement agencies are increasingly hoovering up data from social media, online shopping sites, and various other online sources to track suspects and to 'predict' crime and unrest. The industry providing the software has every incentive to write code that will exaggerate the threats.
By Timothy Wise, Million Belay, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
It is time for African governments to step back from the failing Green Revolution and chart a new food system that respects local cultures and communities by promoting low-cost, low-input ecological agriculture.
By Rex Weyler, energyskeptic.com
All paths out of overshoot (genuine solutions) involve a contraction of the species and a decline of material/energy throughput. There are no exceptions.
By Rob Dietz, Resilience.org
Even though I’ve written extensively on ecological economics and community resilience, I still feel all-too indoctrinated by our global throw-away economy. I have to remind myself to think first of local options and go the repair route whenever possible.
By Andy Stirling, Saurabh Arora
Will degrowth as a discourse and movement extend coloniality, by aiming to make just one world out of the many that form the earth’s pluriverse?
By OreOluwa Badaki, Environmental Health News
In order to write creatively about food cultivation, climate change, and social justice, we need to understand how they operate in the world we live in. Imagining a better future, therefore, requires keen and purposeful observations of the present. It requires science.
By Ali Amouzai, Sylvia Kay, Transnational Institute
As NAFSN highlighted the implications of the viral outbreak for the region, it also considered the crisis to be an opportunity to create an alternative to the current unjust and precarious systems we are living under.
By Charlene Spretnak, Great Transition Initiative
Rather than slogging along into the Era of Disasters with incorrect mechanistic assumptions underlying our policies and practices in modernized cultures worldwide, we can, instead, apply the new relational discoveries.
By Stan Cox, Priti Gulati Cox, Resilience.org
A downsizing economy will require a smaller and smaller energy supply; in time, energy demand will become modest enough that it can be fully satisfied with renewable sources, sustainably deployed.
By John Foran, Resilience.org
This impulse toward activism is the sound of love when it roars–when it demands to be heard. The universal is deeply personal.
By Jamie Cooke, Green European Journal
What opportunities, and risks, does government participation offer to the Scottish Green Party? And what will happen next?
By Joel Stronberg, illuminem
What will Joe Biden be remembered for? It likely depends on the fate of two pieces of legislation that encompass nearly the entirety of his once-in-a-generation agenda, including infrastructure, climate, voter rights, higher taxes for the wealthy, equal justice for people of color and low incomes, healthcare, and greater assistance for low-income families and children.