By Die Freien Bäcker, ARC2020
We want to preserve our sovereignty and credibility as food artisans. We want our craft to be suitable for our grandchildren – a creative, meaningful cultural technique.
By Adrian Ayres Fisher, Ecological Gardening
We must eat. But the land sacrifices so that we may live; the land ethic asks that we live in ways that show we are responsible citizens of the land community; and the law of reciprocity asks what we are giving back in return for that gift of life.
By Cristina Suárez Vega, Green European Journal
Alongside a new vocational education law that consolidates dual training, the government’s new plan seeks to modernise the training offer and create 28 new degrees linked to emerging industries including green sectors...
By John Bistline, Carbon Brief
Our article shows that the next steps in reaching the 2030 US climate target are clearer and increasingly affordable, but require new supporting policies to get there.
By Gemma Gasseau, Undisciplined Environments
The book “Public Water and Covid-19: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings”, discusses how the Covid19 outbreak underlined once again the importance of water and other basic services for human life, and re-opened the debate on the role of the state in managing such services.
By Kayla DeVault, YES! magazine
Native tribes are reliant on their local water sources, which have been continuously exploited and contaminated by the U.S. government and non-Native people. Indigenous groups are finding new ways to demand justice.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
I’d argue, too, that there’s no particular virtue in boycotting existing climate protest movements from the conviction that you personally have access to some higher-level political consciousness, though there may be good reasons for boycotting them in practice.
By Joni Doherty, Resilience.org
In Teaching History for the Common Good, Keith C. Barton and Linda S. Levstik recognize that the past can be used “in a variety of ways, and for a variety of purposes.” One of these is to use history’s “potential to prepare students for participation in a pluralist democracy.”
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
Headlines for the week of June 6 - June 12
By Gregk Foley, Red Pepper
That, in a nutshell, is neoliberal economics: the ruthless submission of political and social life to the free market.
By Derek Gow, Resilience.org
This is the story, in large part, of my own life journey (which is, I earnestly hope, not quite over yet), from breeding endangered breeds of domestic farm livestock at its beginning to restoring a broad array of the most marvellous native creatures back into habitats they have lost at its end.
By Jeremy Brecher, Labor Network for Sustainability
Workers and unions are among those who have the most to gain by climate protection that produces good jobs and greater equality.