Energy Bulletin Weekly 1 February 2020
By Tom Whipple, The Energy Bulletin
Prices remained in a narrow range for the third week, around $52 in New York and $55 in London.
Review: Shalanda H. Baker, Revolutionary Power: An Activist’s Guide to the Energy Transition
By Jane K. Brundage, Resilience.org
Shalanda Baker’s Revolutionary Power: An Activist’s Guide to the Energy Transition (Island Press, January 2021) presents readers with quite a ride!
Harnessing People Power to Protect Alaska’s Last Remaining Wilderness
By Breanna Draxler, YES! magazine
A new social movement is bringing together Indigenous activists and TikTok creators to prevent drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
‘Footprint Justice’ and ‘Fair Earth Shares’ is getting more attention
By Jan Juffermans, Share The World's Resources
The campaign for 'Footprint Justice' is gathering momentum with a call for UN member states to investigate the legal implications of enshrining a 'Fair Earth Share' as a human right.
A Conservative for Our Time
By John de Graaf, Resilience.org
I have come to believe that Udall was actually in many ways, a conservative whose creative ideas may help point America’s way forward in a turbulent, polarized, and destructive time. Above all, Udall was devoted to conserving the land and the beauty of the American landscape.
GameStop: Why the elites hate peer-to-peer power
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Small investors, emboldened by an online Reddit group called WallStreetBets, have so far inflicted nearly $20 billion in losses on their arch short-selling foes as the stock price of GameStop has rocketed from about $17 a share on January 4 to $325 a share on Friday. Will WallStreetBets show itself to be a liberating force? Will it spawn a worldwide movement that demands a rethinking and restructuring of our financial system?
Urban Food Revolution Gaining Ground In Bristol
By Ursula Billington, ARC2020
Small-scale urban farming is a key piece of the food resilience puzzle. In the face of crisis, local growing has proved a reliable ally.
A Plug for Electric Vehicles
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
The electrification of the transportation sector is not just about the environment. It is about the global competitiveness of US industry. To compete abroad requires the ability and capacity to compete domestically.
Rondout Riverport 2040: Part 2
By Andrew Willner, Resilience.org
Rondout Riverport 2040 will serve as an empowering example to our bioregion and our country – demonstrating the viability of ethical livelihoods and teaching beneficial sustainable technologies that do minimal socio-environmental harm; methodologies that foster self-reliance and promote Slow Tech hands-on work practices.
Bringing Community to the Table in Climate Adaptation
By Leslie MacKenzie, Transition US
Transition Longfellow connected climate change to the things our neighbors love and care about the most – their children’s health, their chickens and vegetable gardens, their homes, and favorite businesses.
The Nottingham Economic Recovery and Renewal Consultation – Part Three
By Brian Davey, Feasta
Promoting economic growth is unethical because economic activity has overshot the carrying capacity of the biosphere and is degrading the ecological system.
New research on forests and oceans suggest projections of future warming may be too conservative, with serious consequences
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
How much will the world warm with ongoing fossil-fuel carbon emissions? It’s a big question that preoccupies policymakers and activists, with important discussions about when the world will hit two degrees, are we really on a path to four degrees of warming with current Paris commitments, and so on.
Revolutionary Power: Excerpt
By Shalanda H. Baker, Resilience.org
We must view the battle for the design of the new, clean energy system through the same lens we use to view broader struggles for economic and civil rights.
Revisiting the Commons
By Derrick Gentry, The Owl Light News
As more and more of us are turned on to the idea of small-scale self-reliance and seek to build resilient local communities, one of the most serious challenges we face is basic access to affordable land.
Recovering from COVID
By Vicki Robin, Resilience.org
Many may feel this way now as we emerge from Covid and the Trump presidency - still somewhat skittish after 4 years of waking to ever crazier tweets, threats, and lies – yet cautiously hopeful.