Underlying the Democrats’ defeat: A different view
“The Democratic Party has a major working-class voter issue. It started a decade ago as a working-class White issue. It’s now gotten even worse and spread across racial lines.”
Young People and Transition: Making Space at the Table
With 84% of young people aged 16-25 in the UK worried about climate change and 59% reporting that it affects their daily lives (The Lancet Planetary Health, 2020) it’s crucial that movements such as Transition strive to place young people at their heart, building supportive and empowering pathways to navigate these turbulent times together.
Crafting the Right Questions: Pathfinding for cultural concepts to move beyond a narrow definition of progress
To give the biosphere, humanity included, the best possible chance of surviving and flourishing through deep time, we must acknowledge limits to growth and re-learn our being in this world through cultural concepts that (re)couple our future to that of all living things.
Transformative Adaptation: the path, in this ‘Trump won!?’ world
This day, of Trump’s being elected again, and likely winning Congress too, is a dire dire day for the living planet and for its human denizens. This moment requires us to face reality as never before: and that means us pivoting to adaptation and resilience-building in earnest. Rupert Read explains…
Five “No-Regrets” Actions for Tumultuous Times
Uncertain times are uniquely suited to an approach I call “multisolving” – acting in service of multiple goals with a single action.
Crude capitalism: How oil greases the wheels of the world market
Put differently, oil’s power is assumed to derive from the natural properties of the commodity itself, separate from the social system that gives these properties meaning and significance.
Scaling up democratic ownership: Adapting the employee ownership model to build truly democratic businesses
Democratic forms of ownership, such as worker-owned businesses, worker co-operatives, and stakeholder co-operatives, decommodify ownership by linking it directly to those who participate in production.
Somebody’s Gonna Win
In today’s Frankly, Nate reminds us that the realities of our accelerating predicament go way beyond election results.
The Globalized, Industrialized Food System Is Destroying the World—We Urgently Need to Support Local Food Economies
Our food system is linked to an economic system fundamentally biased against what’s good for people and the planet.
Feeling the illusion of individualism breaking
In the day-to-day we can easily forget how entangled we actually are with others and the planet. But we are not separate from each other or the planet. We’re part of one large organism, a complex system with many interconnections and interdependencies.
Kari Stoever: “Planetary Health Check: The State of Earth’s Critical Systems”
There has been much discussion lately of Planetary Boundaries – the 9 biophysical systems and processes that regulate the functioning of life support systems on Earth, and ultimately the stability and resilience of the Earth system as a whole. But how close are we, today, to pushing these systems past their ability to function and recover?
The Day of the Dead
It is the Day of the Dead. It is the end of yet another season of growth and the beginning of another season of decay. The spiral is turning… It is time to honor our debts to time. Without fear…
