Oats or milk is not the question
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
The choice between milk and plant-based alternatives is less important than how the food system is designed and how they are produced.
From global drag to radical regionalization
By Jan Juffermans, Resilience.org
For regionalization, not everything has to be done on a small scale or regionally. It is a search for the optimal scale in terms of transport, energy use, production options, mineral cycle and many other aspects.
On the Possibility of Speaking a Foreign Language in One’s Native Tongue: Why Our Reskilling Conversations Matter
By Clifford Dean Scholz, Green Hand Initiative
Despite the fact that the world of the unnamed vastly exceeds the extent of the named world, most people choose to inhabit a consciousness bounded by the naming of things.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 18 January 2021
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
Prices, which hit their highest in nearly a year the previous week, posted their first weekly decline of 2021 last week.
Whitewashed Hope
By 10+ indigenous authors, Indigenous World Views
While the practices 'sustainable farming' promote are important, they do not encompass the deep cultural and relational changes needed to realize our collective healing.
The Earth Does Not Belong to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk
By Liz Theoharis, Tom Dispatch
After all, the best hope of successfully navigating the crises of 2021 and beyond must involve King’s dream of building a multi-racial fusion movement to reconstruct society from the bottom up.
Enlightenment and Ecology: An introduction to Bookchin’s legacy
By Yavor Tarinski, Resilience.org
Throughout his life, prophetic American philosopher Murray Bookchin created social ecology as a comprehensive social program for the challenges of our present era.
Where the story takes us
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
Chapters 1 and 2 of my book tell a story about how our current modern global civilization has got itself into a mess by disregarding some such factors that complicate its tale of endless self-improvement.
Paul Feyeraband and the fight over ‘truth’
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
We are having worldwide fight not over our view of "the facts", but over what constitutes "the facts." It has ever been thus, philosopher Paul Feyeraband tells us. It's just that now that fight is breaking out into the open and disrupting our lives and our institutions without a clear way to resolve it.
Turn off that camera during virtual meetings, environmental study says
By Kayla Wiles, Purdue University
It’s not just to hide clutter anymore – add “saving the planet” to the reasons you leave the camera off during your next virtual meeting.
Street Goat: A Blueprint for Urban Agroecology
By Ursula Billington, ARC2020
The original Street Goat concept focused on turning disused land into productive space: bringing goats in to clear scrub, improving sustainability whilst providing a workable model for non-intensive urban dairy production.
Worried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can grasp
By Corey J.A. Bradshaw, Daniel T. Blumstein, Paul R. Ehrlich, The Conversation
The research published today reviews more than 150 studies to produce a stark summary of the state of the natural world.