The Energy Bulletin Weekly
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
Headlines for the week of May 16-23
Why the UN must rely more on indigenous wisdom and less on fossil fuels
By Jeremy Jiménez, Resilience.org
It is time for the United Nations and its various agencies to recognize that its top-down organizational structure is not suited to address our myriad ecological crises, and rather use its influence to advocate for, and allocate its resources to support, land custodianship for the millions of indigenous communities keeping alive the knowledge of how to live within the bounty of what our mother Earth provides.
People will suffer more if professionals delude themselves about sustainable development – Letter to UN
By Jem Bendell, Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability
As we approach the 30th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit, we publicly call on the UN to drop the redundant and unhelpful ideology of Sustainable Development.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 80 Britt Wray
By Vicki Robin, Britt Wray, Resilience.org
Dr. Britt Wray is a Human and Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Helium: Longtime ‘canary in the coal mine’ signals more trouble
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Peak Helium! For each and every resource, we as a society have assumed that we will always find the substitutes we need in the quantities we require at the prices we can afford by the time we need them. We are now testing that belief with regard to helium.
What it means to have children
By Brian Kaller, Restoring Mayberry
We devote much of our lives to our children, the messages we send to the future we will never see.
A Livable Path
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
I think we can all agree that a livable future is one that uses much less of this planet, one that manufactures less, that transports less, that does less.
Mini-Forest Revolution: Excerpt
By Hannah Lewis, Resilience.org
As the hyper-local landscape transformations prove themselves over time, though, perhaps the Miyawaki Method will become a centerpiece of Paris’s ostensibly biodiversity-sensitive landscaping strategy.
Power: Chapter 3. Power in the Holocene
By Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers
Whether in family, school, work, or politics, we’re all immersed in the pathologies of power. If we’re lucky, we learn to navigate these waters without being harmed irreparably, and without harming others. Many are not so fortunate.
The Cost of Living Crisis & the Coming Crash
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
Driven by fossil fuels, powering new technologies, society (and the global climate) has been completely changed. But like all celebrations, that process is arguably coming to an end; and like all the best parties, those who have had a really good time don’t want it to stop!
The Great Simplification – Full Movie
By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification
This 32 minute animation -in 4 Acts - describes the backdrop for The Great Simplification - an economic/cultural transition on our near term horizon.
Letter From The Farm | A Year In Review
By Mateusz Ciasnocha, ARC2020
One of the key learnings of 2021 is the necessity to think AND act in a systemic and holistic way – a manner that builds bridges rather than breaks them down, or questions existing ones.
A Great Custodian of the Collective Imagination
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Network
That there’s… In my dream world just one gathering that’s only about imagination. What are we dreaming into the world? How do we imagine our work will be of service to the future?
Democracy Rising 19: Dialogue in Dixie
By Hollie Cost, Resilience.org
The literal heart of Dixie (the U.S. Deep South) is the very last place one might expect to see a community rallying around the idea of acceptance and inclusivity—especially if the community is a small town in Alabama declaring itself a safe, nurturing, and inviting space for LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Stopwatch of Doom: How the Cult of Productivity Torpedoes Sustainability and Equity (Episode 56 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Welcome to the dehumanizing world of scientific management, where business gurus and middle managers view workers as resources, and where a cult-like devotion to productivity has invaded almost all facets of daily life.