By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Sheesh! It’s time for something entirely different to replace neoliberalism – maybe “paleoprogressivism?” Calling all wordsmiths!
By Nate Hagens, Jason Bradford, The Great Simplification
On this episode, Jason Bradford, who is an author, activist, farmer, and teacher, talks about the energy intensity of our modern industrial agriculture system.
By Isabel Carlisle, Paul Pivcevic, The Bioregional Learning Centre
Changing systems is never hands off: you have to become part of the system. Changing systems has the potential to change everything and everyone implicated in the system.
By Josephine Woolington, The Revelator
Removing dams is one thing, but thousands of levees also restrict rivers in the United States — and they’re not working as intended.
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
One thing we know for certain about fossil fuels is that they are a finite resource on this planet—slowly developed in select locations over hundreds of millions of years and being used about a million times faster than the rate of production.
By Joel Stronberg, illuminem
Like an environmental impact study, a federal rulemaking can take several years to complete. Legal challenges can extend the overall process by years.
By David R. Montgomery, Resilience.org
The promise of conservation agriculture to bring life back to the land and support biodiversity both above and belowground should appeal to environmentalists and farmers alike. For like it or not, a large part of nature will be what lives on farms, because we now use more than a third of the world’s ice-free land area for growing crops and raising animals.
By Uche Isieke, Resilience.org
The Rural Watch Africa Initiative (RUWAI) Seed To Wealth program is helping rural farmers in Nigeria to achieve sustainable income for livelihoods.
By Isabel Carlisle, Paul Pivcevic, The Bioregional Learning Centre
Unless we can learn and adapt faster than the rate of global systems change, our viability—the basic necessities for human thriving (nested within the imperative of thriving ecosystems and biodiversity) will dwindle to the point at which they cannot sustain us.
By Jon Hanzen, Medium.com
The sociological relevance of a C.L.T. is in developing a community orientation for living a life aligned with autonomous Degrowth and the promotion of New Local Post-Capitalism.
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
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By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
So I think there may still be further opportunities for merchant self-landlords to build more renewable and regenerative local economies within and against the structures of the warrior landlord state.