The Privatization of Law, Religion and Culture
Today’s state has turned over profit-seeking activity to the private sector. It runs its operations at a loss, and finances them by levying taxes on the private-sector surplus.
Harvest Home
Even if this isn’t the end of the harvest or the end of the year, it is the end of the season of growth. It is just on the cusp of the time of contraction and repose, the time of death for many short-lived beings. So this is a natural time to think on the cycles of life.
Connecting the dots between climate destruction and its financial backers
As Vanguard S.O.S. takes action in new places this fall, campaigners will be applying lessons learned and learning new ones in the process. It’s all in service of winning the changes that bring us ever closer to having clean air to breathe, clean water to drink and a safe climate in which to thrive.
What matters?
For the material footprint of industrial production and our corresponding consumption, a change of energy source itself makes in most cases little difference.
Torrey pines: Mistakes and progress [Western USA]
One thing I have learned for certain, though, is that hubris is the main threat to the successful practice of ecosystem restoration and rewilding. We need to be open to the need for refinement.
Taking stock
But for sure we’ve got to do something different to avert the present suicidal and ecocidal course of our food system. I’ve made the case in my two recent books for agrarian localism as the best something different option.
Just the clash of opinions or different facts? Facing the epistemological divide
Differing opinions are not the primary thing dividing us.
The Joy of Change: Play for Transition
Unified Playfulness practices give adults space to play, slow down, and tap into their creativity. These practices help disrupt patterns and foster behavior change, bringing more resilience, authenticity, and joy into their lives and the systems they inhabit.
An insider’s view on just climate action in Zambia
“Since I was young I’ve been thinking about how I could both improve my own situation and help develop my country. ‘How can we make people’s livelihoods better?’ The answer is that the only way to improve the quality of life of people in rural areas and poor people in settlements is if top levels of government commit to invest in development and protecting the environment.”
How the Hé Sapa Resolution Could Help ‘Indigenize’ Global Wilderness Conservation
All relevant institutions [must] actively promote wilderness policy that acknowledges that nature is multi-dimensional, transcending the material and physical realms; and use language that honors the rights and roles of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom Systems, natural and customary law.” —Hé Sapa Resolution, 2024
Service Providers in the Trophic Theory of Money
For now, the bottom line is that the TTOM will continue to serve as a durable reminder of the primacy of agricultural and extractive activity in economic production. It belies the notion of decoupling GDP from energy and material use.
Stefan Rahmstorf: “Global Heating 101: Rapid-Fire Answers to the Biggest Climate Questions”
In this episode, ocean and climate physicist Stefan Rahmstorf joins Nate for an overview on the most common questions and misconceptions concerning the state of the climate, including the nuances of what our future planetary home might look like.
