Ten years of Transition in Luxembourg
By Wolf von Leipzig, Transition Network
In 2010, after the failure of the Copenhagen World Climate Summit, a new idea paved the way: Transition. Ten years later, the movement has also taken root in Luxembourg.
Two Bite-sized Reflections for Thanksgiving and the Holidays
By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism
It’s almost Thanksgiving here in the US, and the official start, globally, of the holiday shopping season. But, of course, COVID is raging, and lots will be different this season.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 23 November 2020
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
Last week. prices rose to the highest in nearly three months, with positive Covid-19 vaccine developments paving the way for a more sustained oil demand recovery. F
The Quiet Resilience of Willowbrook Farm
By Dora Taylor, Landworkers Alliance
COVID-19 has raised significant questions about meat production, and Lutfi and Ruby Radwan have added their voices to the chorus of environmental campaigners, scientists and animal welfare advocates arguing that the pandemic is a direct result of industrial-scale meat production.
Camp Mni Luzahan launches community Covid-19 testing
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
Keeping the patrol, the camp, the meals, the sobriety, and the testing in the hands of Native community members is “innovative and grassrootsy,” but at the same time it’s all part of the promise forebearers made to keep the peace when they signed the treaties, Angel notes.
Marx on exploitation: an ABC for an unequal world
By Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Open Democracy
The world’s 2,153 billionaires currently control more wealth than the bottom 4.6 billion people (60% of the planet’s population) precisely because the worldwide exploitation of working classes has thrown up perverse patterns of maldistribution.
To plant or not to plant: weighing methods of forest regeneration
By Lily Hess, Landscape News
The two main methods of reforestation are essential to meeting global reforestation targets: tree planting and natural regeneration, which is when forests are allowed to regrow naturally, sometimes with some human support.
Nature on the ballot and the ‘parliament of things’
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
What we may not realize is that nature is always on the ballot everywhere. But our awareness of that fact is only now bubbling to the surface of political consciousness.
Making America ungovernable
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
Adaptation will require leadership and social cohesion. Instead, America may be lurching toward further political division and violence.
A Gathering Place at Warner Mountain Weavers
By Sarah Lillegard, Fibershed
Listening to Bonnie share her history, this shift from personal studio to studio and store seemed inevitable. Bonnie is a gentle but persistent catalyst for building fiber communities.
Food for thought
By Leander Jones, Red Pepper
Community-supported agriculture is a practice that seeks to connect consumers directly with producers, with the aim of fostering community, creating fair exchange and sharing risks.
Graphic Novel Review: 10 Billion is a sci-fi tale of astonishing scope and visual imagination
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
10 Billion vividly reimagines Greer’s blog post as a graphic novel. Told and illustrated in an immersive comic book style, it gives potent visual form to the original text.