By Maura Stephens, Karen Edelstein, System Change not Climate Change
The get-rich-quick scheme, banned in China and elsewhere, is invading U.S. communities unchecked, posing as an “equalizing, democratizing” currency. It’s not.
By Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence
I am convinced education plays an important role in sustaining the climate movement by empowering new young leaders.
By Matt Rendell, Rapid Transition Alliance
This story weaves the indigenous cultural revival of the Muysca people of Suba in Colombia, together with the transition to more sustainable living.
By Jane K. Brundage, Resilience.org
Stan Cox has pulled off quite a feat with his latest book “The Path to a Livable Future: A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic.” In a relaxed, inviting style, Cox sets unorthodox ideas in a persuasive human and environmental context.
By Jasmine Lorenzini, Green European Journal
The process of re-engaging young people with institutional politics goes hand in hand with a reinforced interplay of political parties and social movements.
By Louise Kelleher, ARC2020
In the words of Mathieu Hamon, another associate of La Ferme des 7 Chemins, if we are to tackle urgent issues: “We have to move fast but not too fast”. We can build rural resilience together, one act of unsung activism at a time.
By John Foran, Resilience.org
Openness, imagination, creativity, solidarity, compassion, love, joy, humor, and much more should be the words we keep handy in our pockets, our hands, and our hearts. Our heads will follow if we dedicate our lives to this.
By Maxence Peigné, Open Democracy
As Europeans suffer surging energy prices, the EU is renewing its commitment to costly natural gas instead of investing in cheap renewables, it has been revealed.
By Judy Bankman, YES! magazine
The first Native-owned and Native-led land trust is working to empower and equip young Natives to successfully farm kelp.
By Vera Weghmann, David Hall, The Conversation
Beyond just grid ownership, publicly owned systems for generating electricity could also restore and expand the capacity for democratic control of a sector that provides a vital public benefit.
By Deborah McGregor, Carbon Brief
Indigenous climate justice advocates argue that as long as these dominant world systems fail to embrace the transformation required and offered by Indigenous peoples – including an acceptance of the rights of Mother Earth – humanity as a whole will continue to fail the planet.
By Jeremy Lent, Patterns of Meaning
The global conversation regarding climate change has, for the most part, ignored the elephant in the room.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
What’s being talked about on Capitol Hill is infrastructure and President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. What’s currently being built, however, are ramparts in anticipation of the 2022 and 2024 federal election battles that I am confident will be “take no prisoners” affairs.
By Vicki Robin, Kamea Chayne, Resilience.org
Kamea Chayne is a Hakka-Taiwanese creative, writer, the author of Thrive, and the host of the Green Dreamer podcast. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Chuck Collins, Common Dreams
The Pandora Papers will hopefully give a boost to the US Congress in passing a progressive tax plan to fund the Build Back Better program—and that includes money for IRS enforcement to ensure the wealthy pay their fair share.