There is Unrest in the Urban Forest
By Daniel Herriges, Strong Towns
The truth is that high urban density and abundant housing are entirely compatible with a lush tree canopy.
How we put out the fire
By Green European Journal Staff, Kim Stanley Robinson, Green European Journal
Like Dante in the inferno, for humanity in the first decades of the 21st century, the only way is through. In The Ministry for the Future, writer Kim Stanley Robinson imagines that path, telling the story of a world that somehow manages to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
Sand talking: can indigenous wisdom save the world?
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
if indigenous thinking is truly going to save the world it’ll be a long-haul thing in which people learn or relearn how to become indigenous to their local place in locally specific ways.
Coal and trucks pushed US ‘further off track’ for climate targets in 2021
By Josh Gabbatiss, Carbon Brief
US emissions surged by 6.2% last year, boosted by a renewed reliance on coal power amid soaring natural gas prices, according to the Rhodium Group.
Agroecology and Community Feminism: Nurturing Territories
By Alejandra Guzman Luna, Agroecology Now!
This potential to reproduce collective life is precisely the aspiration of community feminisms, but it is also the aspiration of agroecology!
Educate, Animate, Agitate, and Propagate Transition in a Perilous Century
By Michael Lewis, Resilience.org
How might we collaborate to design a highly interactive and creative online learning environment to share, in a popular, accessible format what we have been learning over the 8 years?
Catching the sun: How communities create their own people-powered solar solutions
By Lonny Grafman, Joshua M. Pearce, Shareable
The following is excepted from To Catch the Sun: Inspiring Stories of Communities Coming Together to Harness Their Own Solar Energy, and How You Can Do It Too! by Lonny Grafman and Dr. Joshua M. Pearce.
Life in a Degrowth Economy and Why You’ll Love It
By Erin Remblance, Medium.com
We can either choose degrowth and actively work towards it, or we choose collapse by continuing with business as usual.
Social Cohesion Is Vital, and We’re Losing It
By Richard Heinberg, Common Dreams
My purpose in this essay is to survey (1) the emerging understanding of social cohesion and its importance, (2) what threatens it in the United States today, and (3) what might prevent a national crack-up.
Black Farmers Are Rebuilding Agriculture in Coal Country
By Natalie Peart, YES! magazine
Jason Tartt, a farmer in West Virginia, says the Mountain State is fertile territory for honey production and maple and fruit orchards in the flood plains. Tartt, who is Black, sees his role as both developing economic opportunity through farming and supporting other Black farmers in West Virginia.
How communities are reimagining LA’s vacant lots
By Alexandra Frost, Shareable
To clear the way for these groups to be “allowed” to use the lots for the community’s benefit, LA residents have to make their requests known, a mission that Ben Tyson, Director of Rise Together, a nonprofit working to inspire and educate voters, is pursuing.
Can Roadless Areas Help Stem the Extinction Crisis in the United States?
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
“As a nation, we have to ask ourselves this question,” says Dietz. “If we can’t protect these federal public lands that are some of the last of our country’s wild, ecologically intact and unroaded forests — that also provide habitat for the majority of our most vulnerable wildlife species — what can we protect?”
Now Published: ‘The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking’
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
It's been more a year and a half in the making, but I'm pleased to announce the release of my new book, The Commoner's Catalog for Changemaking: Tools for the Transitions Ahead!
Making the transition happen
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
The economist Adam Tooze has an article on his newsletter assessing the cost of getting to net zero in Europe by 2050. It’s based on a close reading of a McKinsey report and a look at some of the assumptions in the technical report produced for the EU Commission.
Democracy Rising 7: Deliberative Democracy: Deliberation
By Susan Clark, Resilience.org
People are yearning for authentic engagement. Although deliberation is hard work, it leads to much-needed rewards.