Light posting from 30 June through 11 July
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
Due to editorial holiday, there will be light posting from Thursday, 30 June, through Friday 8 July. Regular posting will resume on Monday, 11 July.
Buying and Dying: How Online Shopping Grew from a Small Weed Deal into a Global Environmental and Societal Disaster (Episode 62 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Now that online shopping and the technology supporting it have ramped up commercialization and supercharged consumerism, we’re facing existential crises.
Standing at the edge of change
By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul
The world’s population of humans stands at the edge of rapid change and the future appears unimaginable.
Reconceptualising boundaries
By Giorgos Velegrakis, Undisciplined Environments
In this short intervention, we bring a critical social science perspective to the Planetary Boundaries framework through the notion of societal boundaries and aim to provide a more nuanced understanding of the social nature of thresholds, one that it has the potential to offer guidelines for a just, social-ecological transformation.
Keeping cool without costing the earth
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
This is one of the greatest challenges for rapid transition in our warming world: as temperatures rise, and extreme heat events become more frequent and severe, how can we keep cool without costing the Earth?
This Southern Appalachian town uses co-ops to build new communities around old industries
By Jeffrey Howard, Shareable
In the foothills of western North Carolina, the small town of Morganton is home to a growing co-op movement that’s reinvigorating the region’s once-struggling textile and furniture manufacturing industries, and refashioning them around egalitarianism and localism.
City of the dead
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
To blow off a few cobwebs, I decided to spend a couple of days hiking a part of the Ridgeway, which has been in use for around 5,000 years and is supposedly Britain’s oldest road.
A review of Ralph Meima’s Inter States trilogy
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Set in the eastern United States in the late fall of 2040, the novels chronicle five crucial weeks in the lives of migrants fleeing climate-driven hardships and political leaders doing their best to manage America’s tumble into history's dustbin.
Five takeaways from the Harvard Ecological Spiritualities Conference
By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism
So even while there were beautiful reminders of our connection to nature at this conference—talks, posters, and so on—there was, and will continue to be, far more reminders of our broken relationship, which Gaians and other ecologically spiritually minded folk should, and I hope will, continue to work toward healing.
Global Public Law and Climate Change: Evolve or Die
By Thomas Boudreau, MAHB
In essence, GPL, in the first instance, is based upon the fundamental necessity for an international legal order that ensures the self-preservation of nations and nature in the Anthropocene.
‘Food for Free’
By Paul Mobbs
The 1970s surge in ecological awareness saw many books published on our relationship with the natural world. ‘Food for Free’, by Richard Mabey, was published fifty years ago in 1972.
Is it time to ration energy?
By Laura Basu, Open Democracy
In Bookchin’s view, freedom wasn’t about doing whatever the heck we want and letting others clean up the mess. Real freedom was the freedom to collectively determine how to satisfy our needs in a precious and finite world.