Climate Justice in an Ethically Complex World
If we can learn to navigate the ethical complexities of our non-ideal world, we will be much better prepared to transform it.
Hurricane Exxon? Hurricane Ted Cruz?
For decades, fossil fuel propagandists have tried to weasel out of responsibility for climate change by blaming their customers, ordinary people like Debbie and Ernesto. The hurricane names reinforce that narrative. Let’s change it.
How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
Rich countries have exported climate breakdown through extractive industries, creating a “carbon colonialism.”
Taking the long view: building environmental activism in the next generation
If we expect the next generation to do better than the present one at protecting our precious blue marble, however, we have an obligation to help them as much as possible.
MM #14: Cancer Diagnosis
Modernity has no choice but to end, although it seems very likely to me that humans will survive the trauma and come out the other side experimenting with new (and/or old) ways of living, necessarily in closer connection with local ecological realities.
Okeechobee County: Kept Great with Conservation
Wetland restoration and conservation, in combination with agricultural stakeholder best management practices, is a promising model for success.
Unlocking community energy democracy
A just and fair Local Power Plan would disperse power to those who use it and produce it, not those who profit from it.
MM #13: A Species out of Context
You see, as we foolishly escaped our ecological context, we recklessly re-fashioned the world so that we are destroying the ecological context crucial to millions of other species—including ourselves, eventually.
Making gardens useful
I want my garden to be useful. And that means it should produce a harvest that I can use. It also means it should provide home and shelter to as many other beings as possible.
Learning from Living Systems
Natural principles are a core part of regenerative practices. They are seen in permaculture, biomimicry, biophilic design, systems-thinking, regenerative leadership, regenerative economics, ancient and indigenous wisdom.
Rebuilding Tulsa With or Without Reparations
The whole tapestry of Black Wall Street, with all its complexities, deserves the spotlight, even as the fight for concrete compensation in the form of reparations continues.
Review: The Burning World by J. G. Ballard
For all its bleakness, The Burning World offers a more hopeful outlook on humanity’s future than does The Drowned World. While the latter leaves no room for hope that human extinction can be averted, the former hints at the possibility of recovery and renewal for humanity.
