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Too Legit to Quit: Rethinking Legitimacy of Territorial Claims

Eradicating colonization is not a matter of granting sovereignty to native populations, it is a matter of eradicating the right to exclude that comes with European sovereignty, getting rid of legitimate territorial claims altogether.


March 14, 2024

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Climate Politics: The View from Washington (3/12/24)

Will the passage of this current year’s appropriations be enough to convince voters in swing districts that Republicans can govern? That’s yet to be seen.


March 14, 2024

The Rim Fire

No, it’s not the Anthropocene

Earth’s new regime, once it has stabilized, will surely be classifiable as a new geological epoch—but currently it’s too soon to name it. We’re still in the midst of the transitory event that is driving the end of the Holocene and the beginning of something else.


March 14, 2024

Arrow Lakes Generating Station

Hydro Power’s Conundrum: Rising Demand in a Drier Climate

Climate change is drying up the reliably ample sources of water that hydro power depends upon. It is depleting glaciers. It is reducing snowmelt. It is increasing flood and drought extremes. And it is accelerating water evaporation and demand.


March 13, 2024

Farm auction in Tennessee

Not Every Farmer Wants to “Get Big or Get Out”

As land ownership continues to consolidate into fewer and wealthier hands, some small farmers vow to stay in place.


March 13, 2024

Cosmolocalism

What technology for degrowth?

Cosmolocal production, utilizing digital communication networks, connects local communities to minimize material and energy footprints.


March 13, 2024

older people

Ageing and the climate crisis

The intersection between climate change and an ageing population is not a pretty picture, but every crisis has the potential to generate change.


March 13, 2024

Game of Life simulation

The Game of Life

Whatever the case, I will continue to play the role it seems I am set out to play, and hope that I happen to be on the “right side of history.” In the game of life, the only way to know is to keep playing.


March 13, 2024

Episode 79

Crazy Town 79. Escape Routes: Let’s Get the F**k out of Crazy Town

Escape Routes! That’s the theme of the sixth season of Crazy Town. We’re exploring how to escape industrialism, consumerism, globalism, capitalism, and all the other -isms that are causing a polycrisis of environmental and social breakdown. Most of all, Jason, Rob, and Asher are looking to maintain their sense of humor while escaping fatalism and finding meaningful ways to avoid collapse.


March 13, 2024

Look after each other graffiti

How to start a mutual aid network

While the dominant U.S. economic system operates on this principle of persistent financial coercion, there is (and always have been) an alternative way to organize individuals into collectives providing essential services, without the need for coercion: mutual aid networks.


March 12, 2024

Wind farm in Lindenberg, Germany

Lessons from Germany for a Just Transition

As the experience of Germany’s traffic light coalition shows, a successful strategy against the far right requires meaningful public investment and engagement in order to bring about a just transition to a green economy and social justice.


March 12, 2024

wild farm

Farm like an ecosystem Part III: Wild farming

Seeing the farm as part of the entire ecosystem, not something separate from it, can ensure that a healthy balanced biodiversity remains.


March 12, 2024

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