Sowing the seed of the future
By Andrew Curry, the next wave
Visionary fiction-writing is a practice we can use to imagine and prepare for the future together, to generate the ideas that we want to see more of in the world
The To-Do List
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
I’ve made a list that is as general as it can be. These steps will need to be taken in every community. This list is also practical. You can do all of it and all of it will make a difference to you and the rest of the world.
Declining sperm counts: Nature’s answer to overpopulation?
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
When someone says that humans are on a course to extinction, it elicits a yawn from most people. Epidemiologist Shanna Swan has projected the date it will begin and can tell you exactly why
What is Communal Living?
By Naomi Bosch, Plentiful Lands
For a long time, we have been walking away from a lifestyle of community and sharing, towards an individualistic lifestyle centred around our space and our possessions. Isn’t it high time for a change?
Caring for Change: Our Degrowth is Intersectional!
By Corinna Dengler, Giacomo D’Alisa, Degrowth.de
The Covid-19 pandemic has made all the more evident what feminists have long argued, namely that care work – especially direct care work which involves a relation between a caregiver and a care receiver – is the foundation of our economy and society.
Beyond Capitalist Realism: The Politics, Energetics, and Aesthetics of Degrowth
By Samuel Alexander, The Simplicity Collective
I reject capitalist realism as unrealistic, as an artefact of false consciousness; as false consciousness itself, blind to its ecocidal nature.
Under a White Sky: Review
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
In Under a White Sky Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction, examines the future world we are engineering.
Reclaiming power
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
The rapid rise of community renewable energy and why the added benefits of local, clean power can help accelerate transition
Capitalism, the Doomsday Machine (or, How to Repurpose Growth Capital)
By Richard Heinberg, Common Dreams
Why wait for collapse? Repurposing growth capital now could help unwind the doomsday machine sooner rather than later.
What Is a Migrant Worth?
By Elsie Roderiques, Common Dreams
The root cause of our social and environmental challenges is neoliberalism and the fetish of the market, which values profit over people and sees nature simply as a commodity.
Rewilding
By Joshua Sterlin, Uneven Earth
There is a growing movement, largely allied with anarchist, radical environmentalist, and decolonial practice, repurposing the term rewilding to be a political and cultural project that is more than merely conservation biology, one that thinks about nature with the people in.
Swidden as politics
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
But the choice of swidden that interests me most for my present purposes is when it’s adopted as a way to avoid being caught in a political net of constant productivity gain and, ultimately, state centralization and ‘modernization’.