The art of craft in a digital world
As we continue to wrestle with what it is to be human as manifest in what we produce, one can hope a middle path will emerge, not only in fine art and craft but also in the everyday of a digitized world.
The short-circuiting of societal feedback mechanisms
Virtually all human and natural systems require feedback to operate properly. Modern global society has been manipulated to prevent effective feedback that could allow us to address the critical environmental problems we face.
Republican Politics of the Absurd and the Climate Debate
I know I’m hardly alone in thinking that the wheels of American democracy feel like they’re coming off the cart. How will we ever solve pressing problems when the debates are so disingenuous?
Review: Osprey Orielle Lake, The Story is In Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis
In The Story Is in Our Bones, author, activist and changemaker Osprey Orielle Lake draws on decades of experience to provide a remarkable exploration of the way forward, intriguingly captured in the subtitle How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis.
Environmentalist & anti-war goals go hand-in-hand
As someone who has long been both pro-environment and anti-war, I hope that my words can play a part in providing a bridge between the two movements.
Seven things I learned at Feeding Ourselves 2024
Feeding ourselves is a lot of things – it’s a network, it’s an event, it’s movement building – and it’s growing. First with CSAs, then agroecologists, then local food proponents, then those with wider food justice concerns, then environmentalists and ruralists, and now also conventional farmers from the region – in all their way, with their own diversities.
What is to be done? Thoughts on degrowth strategy
This revolution requires no heroic sacrifices at the barricades. It requires patient plodding at the task of spreading the new ideas and values.
Of Life and Lithium
While we may change the kinds of cars we drive, we won’t change our lifestyles to fit a climate-challenged future. Millions upon millions of new zero-emission vehicles will be required and to create them, we’ll need staggering amounts of resources that are still lodged below the earth’s crust.
“Trees – Protectors Against a Changing Climate.” – Journal Publication
It has been concluded that the best chance for preserving the Amazon, and its ability to buffer against climate change, lies in placing formally protected areas and lands in the charge of indigenous peoples.
Cities, Roads, and the Sixth Extinction Event
The ‘tipping point’ at which humanity became a majority-urban species finally occurred in 2008; this trend has continued (55% by 2018), and may be 70% by the middle of the 21st century.
Dismantling Silos: Why Those Who Fight Cancer and Environmental Dangers Must Join Forces
My hope is that what I have shared here will convince others of the powerful opportunity we all have to rise up against prevailing messages intent on keeping us powerless, and to experience in the company of others our ability to effect change. May we all have strong hearts and loving companions for such a journey.
Building Movements for Food and Racial Justice Through Organic Farming
Every time I visit a farm, I have hope. Despite everything that’s going on, the fact that people are still producing so much food and thriving gives me hope.
