The Energy Bulletin Weekly
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
Headlines for the week of May 16-23
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
Headlines for the week of May 16-23
By Jeremy Jiménez, Resilience.org
It is time for the United Nations and its various agencies to recognize that its top-down organizational structure is not suited to address our myriad ecological crises, and rather use its influence to advocate for, and allocate its resources to support, land custodianship for the millions of indigenous communities keeping alive the knowledge of how to live within the bounty of what our mother Earth provides.
By Jem Bendell, Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability
As we approach the 30th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit, we publicly call on the UN to drop the redundant and unhelpful ideology of Sustainable Development.
By Vicki Robin, Britt Wray, Resilience.org
Dr. Britt Wray is a Human and Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Peak Helium! For each and every resource, we as a society have assumed that we will always find the substitutes we need in the quantities we require at the prices we can afford by the time we need them. We are now testing that belief with regard to helium.
By Brian Kaller, Restoring Mayberry
We devote much of our lives to our children, the messages we send to the future we will never see.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
I think we can all agree that a livable future is one that uses much less of this planet, one that manufactures less, that transports less, that does less.
By Hannah Lewis, Resilience.org
As the hyper-local landscape transformations prove themselves over time, though, perhaps the Miyawaki Method will become a centerpiece of Paris’s ostensibly biodiversity-sensitive landscaping strategy.
By Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers
Whether in family, school, work, or politics, we’re all immersed in the pathologies of power. If we’re lucky, we learn to navigate these waters without being harmed irreparably, and without harming others. Many are not so fortunate.
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
Driven by fossil fuels, powering new technologies, society (and the global climate) has been completely changed. But like all celebrations, that process is arguably coming to an end; and like all the best parties, those who have had a really good time don’t want it to stop!
By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification
This 32 minute animation -in 4 Acts - describes the backdrop for The Great Simplification - an economic/cultural transition on our near term horizon.
By Mateusz Ciasnocha, ARC2020
One of the key learnings of 2021 is the necessity to think AND act in a systemic and holistic way – a manner that builds bridges rather than breaks them down, or questions existing ones.