Solving the Climate Crisis Requires the End of Capitalism
By Jeremy Lent, Patterns of Meaning
The global conversation regarding climate change has, for the most part, ignored the elephant in the room.
Will Climate Policy Survive This Congress?
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
What’s being talked about on Capitol Hill is infrastructure and President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. What’s currently being built, however, are ramparts in anticipation of the 2022 and 2024 federal election battles that I am confident will be “take no prisoners” affairs.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 56 Kamea Chayne
By Vicki Robin, Kamea Chayne, Resilience.org
Kamea Chayne is a Hakka-Taiwanese creative, writer, the author of Thrive, and the host of the Green Dreamer podcast. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
5 Key Things to Know About the Pandora Papers
By Chuck Collins, Common Dreams
The Pandora Papers will hopefully give a boost to the US Congress in passing a progressive tax plan to fund the Build Back Better program—and that includes money for IRS enforcement to ensure the wealthy pay their fair share.
Feeding Britain one farm at a time
By Patrick Holden, Sustainable Food Trust
Namely, if we switch from chemically dependent agriculture to biologically based farming systems operating in harmony with nature and within planetary boundaries, how much food could we produce on an acre, from a region, a country or the entire planet? And would this be enough to nourish us all?
“People vs. Fossil Fuels’’: Winona LaDuke & Mass Protests Call on Biden to Stop Line 3 Pipeline
By Amy Goodman, Winona LaDuke, Democracy Now
The “People vs. Fossil Fuels” mobilization, led by the Indigenous Environmental Network, 350.org, Sunrise Movement, the Center for Biological Diversity and others, comes as Canadian pipeline company Enbridge has completed the construction of its contested Line 3 crude oil pipeline in northern Minnesota.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 12 October 2021
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
West Texas Intermediate crude closed above $80 a barrel on Monday for the first time since late 2014 as a growing power crisis from Europe to Asia boosts demand for oil ahead of winter.
Gatherers
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
She is Woman the Seeker, Woman the Gatherer. She is the half of the hunter-gatherer society that might truly have fed humanity — because she still does so today all over the world.
COP26: How the UK started the climate crisis
By Adam Ramsay, Open Democracy
COP26 will be a fight over different possible futures, a battle between social movements and entrenched power; between those desperate to defend the world, and those who prefer to preserve the world order; between reality and spin.
The African Earth Jurisprudence Collective: Navigating towards a Resilient Future
By The African Earth Jurisprudence Collective, Global Tapestry of Alternatives
A new, uniquely African hope is emerging to counter threats to the continent’s most precious ecosystems and to revive ways of life that restore the relationship between communities and their lands and waters after centuries of colonial harm.
Dear Mr. Paulson, Re Your Recent NY Times Op-Ed about Mass Extinction
By Adrian Ayres Fisher, Ecological Gardening
It’s past time to quit the cowboy economics, to hang up the hats and put away the spurs. To salvage both nature and humanity, pretty much everything about how we conduct human society must change. So what are you doing to help? I mean actually doing?
Climate justice: The challenge of achieving a ‘just transition’ in agriculture
By Giuliana Viglione, Carbon Brief
Although often overlooked in discussions around climate policy, agriculture is beginning to earn recognition as both a driver of climate change and a key part of the solution.