The Energy Bulletin Weekly 27 June 2022
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
Headlines for the week of June 20 - June 26
The armed lifeboat
By Nick Buxton, Transnational Institute
Militarised adaptation to climate breakdown is akin, as US journalist Christian Parenti argues, to the politics of the ‘armed lifeboat’ that seeks to secure the wealth of the few while training guns on everyone else.
Focus on Ecosystem Health
By James Arnold, Neva Goodwin, Adam Cross, Laura Orlando, Great Transition Initiative
Conservation, restoration, and participatory management of ecosystems (i.e., from the inside-out) are not only hands-on forms of “engagement with nature,” but also reciprocally restorative practices: restorative for the people involved as well as for the ecosystems undergoing restorative actions.
“We Cannot Delete Our Way Out Of This”: Learning In The Maze
By Beatrice White, Juliane Reppert von Bismarck, Green European Journal
We are ultimately telling children and teachers to slow down, to consume information more deliberately. Share more sparingly and stop and think before you do.
Democracy Rising 22: Deliberation and the Promise of Place
By Susan Clark, Resilience.org
The good news is that when place-based wisdom informs local solutions, the solutions are all the more sustainable.
Weaponization of GMO technology? Obscure federal commission uncovers the danger
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Cheerleaders for new technology tend to ignore the ways in which that technology might be used to harm humans and/or the environment. But there are always people who will figure out how to create such harm.
We Are The Economy
By Amanda Janoo, Post-Growth Institute
Once we see that we are the economy, we realize we can change it — and when we change it, we change the world.
Climate Deniers and the Language of Climate Obstruction
By Stella Levantesi, DeSmog Blog
Understanding how opponents of climate action employ these discourses of delay is essential to recognizing climate disinformation and misinformation, Arena said, and ultimately to disrupting it.
Humanity in the patchwork of life
By Julia Steinberger, Medium.com
This story is on borrowed time. And it’s just a part of a story, a piece of human and living patchwork. Maybe you can borrow it, and make it part of your story too?
Building Black Wealth: Understanding the Limits of Black Capitalism
By Robert Raymond, Shareable
Can Black liberation be achieved through individual successes within capitalism — through Black capitalism — as Booker T. Washington suggested? Or can true liberation for Black people in the United States only emerge through a collective struggle against racial capitalism?
Denmark | Re-Scaling the Rural
By Louise Kelleher, ARC2020
Therefore, in addressing contemporary dilemmas, we must understand that academia, rural sociologists, architects, policymakers – and anyone who enjoys the privilege of speaking on behalf of ‘others’ – should make every effort to involve those who really struggle on the ground: the artists, the small-scale farmers, the young students, and the minorities who live precariously in rural territories.
Wixárika community takes back financial autonomy in historic vote
By Angelica Almazan, Tracy L. Barnett, Esperanza Project
After four years of struggle, the Wixárika community of San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán in Mezquitic, Jalisco, will directly receive federal resources to manage amongst themselves without the intervention of local officials or political parties.
Greed over Need: Why Neoliberalism Sucks and How It Sabotages Community (Episode 61 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Sheesh! It’s time for something entirely different to replace neoliberalism – maybe “paleoprogressivism?” Calling all wordsmiths!
Jason Bradford: “A Hybrid Path to the Future of Farming”
By Nate Hagens, Jason Bradford, The Great Simplification
On this episode, Jason Bradford, who is an author, activist, farmer, and teacher, talks about the energy intensity of our modern industrial agriculture system.
Learning, not diamond-class carbon markets, is the bridge to landscape scale regeneration
By Isabel Carlisle, Paul Pivcevic, The Bioregional Learning Centre
Changing systems is never hands off: you have to become part of the system. Changing systems has the potential to change everything and everyone implicated in the system.