By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Many in contemporary global society unconsciously act to create more complexity, thinking it will solve whatever problem presents itself. That very complexity is now giving us negative returns. More of it will almost certainly make matters worse.
By Daniel Herriges, Strong Towns
The truth is that high urban density and abundant housing are entirely compatible with a lush tree canopy.
By Green European Journal Staff, Kim Stanley Robinson, Green European Journal
Like Dante in the inferno, for humanity in the first decades of the 21st century, the only way is through. In The Ministry for the Future, writer Kim Stanley Robinson imagines that path, telling the story of a world that somehow manages to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
if indigenous thinking is truly going to save the world it’ll be a long-haul thing in which people learn or relearn how to become indigenous to their local place in locally specific ways.
By Josh Gabbatiss, Carbon Brief
US emissions surged by 6.2% last year, boosted by a renewed reliance on coal power amid soaring natural gas prices, according to the Rhodium Group.
By Alejandra Guzman Luna, Agroecology Now!
This potential to reproduce collective life is precisely the aspiration of community feminisms, but it is also the aspiration of agroecology!
By Michael Lewis, Resilience.org
How might we collaborate to design a highly interactive and creative online learning environment to share, in a popular, accessible format what we have been learning over the 8 years?
By Lonny Grafman, Joshua M. Pearce, Shareable
The following is excepted from To Catch the Sun: Inspiring Stories of Communities Coming Together to Harness Their Own Solar Energy, and How You Can Do It Too! by Lonny Grafman and Dr. Joshua M. Pearce.
By Erin Remblance, Medium.com
We can either choose degrowth and actively work towards it, or we choose collapse by continuing with business as usual.
By Richard Heinberg, Common Dreams
My purpose in this essay is to survey (1) the emerging understanding of social cohesion and its importance, (2) what threatens it in the United States today, and (3) what might prevent a national crack-up.
By Natalie Peart, YES! magazine
Jason Tartt, a farmer in West Virginia, says the Mountain State is fertile territory for honey production and maple and fruit orchards in the flood plains. Tartt, who is Black, sees his role as both developing economic opportunity through farming and supporting other Black farmers in West Virginia.
By Alexandra Frost, Shareable
To clear the way for these groups to be “allowed” to use the lots for the community’s benefit, LA residents have to make their requests known, a mission that Ben Tyson, Director of Rise Together, a nonprofit working to inspire and educate voters, is pursuing.