Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Costa Rica’s environmental maturity has taught us that all ecosystems are interconnected and cyclical, and we must create the right conditions for both conservation and production. Healthy land use and healthy marine use are in the best interest of us all; a resilient and productive environment benefits everyone.
There’s an old saying: “The rules are made by the people in the room.” That’s why we’ve got to get more of the working-class in those rooms to really start making our communities what they need to be.
What’s behind the levitation of U.S. coastal real estate values even as climate change suggests a grim future for those values?
(Re)creating community is a sine qua non for the transition to agricultural practices that are more respectful of farmers and the environment. And in this perspective, seeds are an inexhaustible source of passion to bring a community together.
We have the choice of stopping now in as controlled a collapse as we can contrive — or we keep going and this whole system will die and take most of us along with it. Is that really a choice?
The novel’s central message that our well-being as a species hinges on our ability to coexist harmoniously with nature is simple, yet poignant. It’s also especially timely as modern examples like deforestation, overfishing and unchecked industrial pollution show how disrupting that harmony leads to our own undoing.
Earlier this month, a years-long legal attempt by community and environmental groups to challenge a new oil project in Horse Hill, Surrey resulted in victory – with implications for all new fossil fuel projects in the UK.
Success, for Obran, is based on employee outcomes rather than shareholder value. By using a private equity playbook for the people, Obran is pushing the worker co-operative movement out of its comfort zone.
We propose that agroecologists explicitly aim to reconceptualize work, disrupt power imbalances, and galvanize support across classes, sectors and species of laborers to have a truly transformative transition to an agroecological economy founded on care.
Bluntly, storytelling is the best way—maybe the only way—to inform, persuade, and inspire people to act. It helps us assimilate facts, contextualize them, and understand and share their meaning.
If we feel despair, the antidote is action. If we understand the world is ill, we can see ourselves as the antibodies. If we know our world is wounded, we can envision how we might heal it and create a better future for all.
The repression that environmental activists using peaceful civil disobedience are facing in Europe is a major threat to democracy and human rights, according to U.N. special rapporteur Michel Forst.
