Resilience.org short break
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
The Resilience.org editorial team are taking a short break from 13-14 July. Regular posting will resume on Wednesday 15 July.
Tribes Nationwide Cheer DAPL Shutdown
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
Tribal leaders and constituents across Lakota Territory and elsewhere welcomed a hard-won court order on July 6 to shut off the oil flow in the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) within 30 days.
Avalanche
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
Back in March, I wrote that the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic would likely shape its economic, political, and geopolitical fortunes for years or decades to come. Four months later, it’s time for a check-in. How’s that pandemic response going? ... Keep an eye on that snow-covered mountainside.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 8 Heather Cox Richardson
By Vicki Robin, Heather Cox Richardson, Resilience.org
Heather Cox Richardson addresses the question of What Could Possibly Go Right? with a political focus in her conversation with host Vicki Robin.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 7 Tim DeChristopher
By Vicki Robin, Tim DeChristopher, Resilience.org
Activist Tim DeChristopher presents his views on our big question with themes of identity, capitalism and mortality.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 6 Severn Cullis-Suzuki
By Vicki Robin, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Resilience.org
In today’s episode, Severn Cullis-Suzuki gives her perspective that spans from addressing the UN at age 12 through to her life-long activism for environment and indigenous rights.
Municipalist Syndicalism: From the Workplace to the Community
By Alexander Kolokotronis, ROAR Magazine
Municipalist syndicalism broadly means democratizing unions as a means to democratizing local and regional public power. This is done through advancing an anti-racist dual power agenda for the labor movement by building and acting with communities of color on issues beyond the job.
It’s the Economy Stupid, and It Needs A Green New Deal
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
Winning the election may be the easiest task Joe Biden and the Democratic Party have to accomplish over the next several years. Governing, however, is another matter. In both cases, climate policy has a prominent role to play. Will a President Biden be able to do what Obama didn’t—put the nation on a path to sustainability?
Prolonged Uprising is the New Normal
By Jade Begay, YES! magazine
In my humble opinion, if these are our goals, we must get used to and comfortable with people being in dedicated, committed, and prolonged uprising. In fact, I believe that’s what this “new normal” is, and I hope that these protests go well into November and beyond until we see accountability and real, tangible actions taken by cities, states, and the country to abolish racism and white supremacy.
Cheap, Simple DIY Water Catchment and Irrigation
By Kara Stiff, Low-Carbon Life
I like the idea of living within the rain budget of my area, which isn’t too hard because we usually get too much. I like the idea of having irrigation water even if I lost access to my local water utility for some reason (power outage, income outage, anything).
The Art of Critique
By Anne B. Ryan, Feasta
Critique has been the subject of volumes of philosophical and scholarly work, so my purpose here is to consider some aspects of a critique that is congruent with the philosophy and practice of Enough, and putting care at the centre of all our decision-making.
Food Sovereignty Now and Beyond COVID-19
By Éric Darier, Greenpeace
The food system was broken long before coronavirus came along. The current crisis has exposed the fault-lines and renewed urgency to tackle root causes. This means asking hard questions and digging deeper for solutions.
So You Want to Leave it All and Create a Community?
By Katarzyna Gajewska, Commune Life
If you want to leave it all and start a community, you should focus on inner work first. If you focus only on action, you risk building yourself another prison. You might just change one form of unhealthy lifestyle and toxic relations for another as a result.
An Environmentalist Apologises…
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
I apologise for my part in a civilization that made Apocalypse Never a bestseller. I hope that you will have both the capacity inherited from my generation and a fortitude of your own to learn from my failings, and to build a better civilization over the ashes of mine.
Turning Toward Our Blind Spot: Seeing the Shadow as a Source for Transformation
By Otto Scharmer, Presencing Institute
We are living in a moment of tectonic shift in society. Something changed when we all watched the same images — 8 minutes and 46 seconds — the killing of George Floyd. During that unbearable experience, something broke down and broke open in our hearts, in how we relate to one another, and in how we want to live together.