By Haley Parzonko, Undisciplined Environments
Cairo is an example of the trend of megacities with rapid growth in size and environmental inequality, marked by a dual reality between informal areas with high congestion and pollution levels and lack of green space, and exclusive new high-end desert cities with ample spacing and private access to nature.
By Adam Federman, Waging Nonviolence
Because if you stop buying oil, gas and coal from Putin’s Russia it will help you to stop war on Ukraine on the one hand and it will help you to save the climate on the other.
By Liz Carlisle, Resilience.org
I needed to speak to people whose ancestors had experienced the slaughter of their bison herds, the enslavement of their entire family, the brutal exploitation of migratory farm work, or incarceration at the hands of their own government while their crops were left to rot.
By Stan Cox, City Lights Books
The only realistic course is to protect the electoral process despite all its flaws, ensure universal voting rights, and push harder than ever to make this country what it has never been: a multiracial, pluralistic democracy.
By Laura Basu, Open Democracy
We owe it to each other to create those spaces of active love and healing. Along the way, we can all learn from the ADD brain’s refusal of labour time and capitalist bureaucracy.
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
It’s not possible, after all, to tackle one crisis without addressing the other. To fight climate change, we need fully functioning ecosystems with healthy populations of native plants and animals.
By Daniel Herriges, Strong Towns
Incremental development is a practical means to an end. And that end is beautiful, livable, resilient, financially sound places.
By Joel Stronberg, illuminem
In the near term, any legislative action by Congress and President Biden in support of clean energy—possibly the broader environment—will likely be brokered by Joe Manchin and be all about the politics.
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
Landskap, therefore, is the nature we have together, where we live. The word expresses that we are part of the landscape and that the landscape is part of us.
By Timothée Parrique, Timothée Parrique blog
In the very same month the IPCC publishes an 8-year in the making, almost 3,000-page report, I find it scientifically insulting that someone dares to cobble a few graphs together in defence of a crackpot hypothesis whose scientific legitimacy has come close to Flat Earth theory.
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
Headlines for the week of May 9-13
By Victor M. Toledo, Voices of Mother Earth
Every day more Mexicans discover that what we are experiencing today, not only in the country but on the entire planet, is a colossal battle between life and death. In short, social power keeps moving forward!