By Chris Nelder, The Energy Transition Show
Our returning guest in this episode, energy modeler Christopher Clack, says according to his recent modeling, that investing more into local solar will deliver more public benefits than investing in utility-scale projects.
By Tom Llewellyn, Shareable
In the latest episode of The Response Podcast, we hear Chad's perspective of what worked and what really didn’t, as well as how some local organizers plan to be even more prepared for when the next disaster strikes, which most likely will be sooner rather than later.
By Natalia Savelyeva, Sarah Jaffe, Open Democracy
In Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone, Jaffe draws on her deep experience reporting on workplace organising in the US to explore why love is not a necessary component of our jobs...
By Ursula Billington, ARC2020
Whilst awareness around the environmental impacts of global food systems and their sustainable counterparts appears to be growing, there is a widespread disconnect of perception between the state of the environment and the garments we clothe ourselves in.
By Vicki Robin, Victor Lee Lewis, Resilience.org
Victor Lee Lewis is a progressive life coach, trainer, speaker, and Founder of the Radical Resilience Institute. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Paul Mobbs, Rambling Activist
It’s been a year since ‘Planet of the Humans’ caused the leaders of climate campaigns to go into heated meltdown. By comparison, this film throws them an even greater challenge to try and respond to.
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
The climate policymaking orthodoxy is that markets can efficiently price and mitigate climate risks, but this blog argues that when risks are existential — that is, a permanent and drastic curtailing of human civilisation’s future development — then the damages are beyond calculation.
By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism
And there is no shame in leaving the marked trail of the race you started to follow a better course. There is only shame at not running your best race. For yourself and for Gaia.
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
The struggle between the spreading pandemic in the less developed world and the revival of economic activity in the US, Europe, and China continues to keep prices volatile as they move steadily higher.
By Robert Barbour, Sustainable Food Trust
Traditionally defined as the growing of commercially productive trees and agricultural crops on the same piece of land, agroforestry is, despite its new-found fame, a very old practice – though one which has sadly been almost entirely lost from our landscape.
By Tomasz Falkowski, Uneven Earth
Cultivating cooperative, self-sustaining communities can undermine destructive economic systems and offer meaningful responses to social-ecological crises in the wake of the pandemic.
By Brian Czech, CASSE
Students and scholars of steady-state economics must have noticed, by now, that the Degrowth movement in Europe has attained far more traction than the steady-state movement has in the USA (or anywhere).
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
I intend to be fully here in this new home. I will care for this place and be with and through and among this place. I will become wise with the knowledge this place holds. And I will become native — healthy, regenerative and in right relationship — to this place. This is my home.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Will there be enough of the minerals critical for the technology behind the so-called green energy revolution?
By Joe Brewer, Medium
I want to talk to all of you today about the humans that survived the current planetary predicament. How did they organize their lives? What was the key to their success?