Mind The Gap! Sustainable Food Systems Need Intergenerational Cooperation
At the European Action Gathering for Sustainable Food Systems in Marburg, Germany, Forum Synergies invited participants to consider aspects of intergenerational cooperation.
Accelerationist possibilities in an ecosocialist degrowth scenario
If high-income countries are to decarbonize fast enough to stay within their fair-share of Paris-compliant carbon budgets, then urgent climate mitigation tasks – like building renewable energy capacity, insulating buildings, expanding public transit, innovating and distributing more efficient technologies, regenerating land, etc – need to happen very quickly.
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Over the years, I have developed a number of automatic text substitutions for phrases/platitudes I hear people utter. The filter works so that what I hear is converted into my internal version before processing further.
China grinch stops rare earth tech transfer in time for Christmas
The continuing trade spat between China and the United States demonstrates the increasing vulnerability of the worldwide trading system to geopolitical disputes.
Clearing skies: Opening a new path on climate and the future
Adapting to climate change does not address the societal systems and values that spawned the current crisis. What’s needed is “systemic adaptation” that fundamentally changes our economy, our politics, and our priorities in ways that put community and the planet first.
Bill McKibben: “Climate, Movements, and Power”
On this episode, environmental activist and author Bill McKibben joins Nate for a reflection on the last few decades of climate education and movements – and the possibilities and challenges that we’ll face ahead.
Holidays are Degrowth Pt. 2
A Christmas Carol is possibly the single most important humanitarian holiday tale of the industrial era. It did not just put the merry in Merry Christmas, it universalized the greeting itself.
Light posting December 22 through January 2
Seasonal greetings to all of our readers and contributors! We hope that you find the holiday season a time of rest and reflection through all of the tumultuous events of the passing year.
There will be light posting starting tomorrow, Friday 22 December, 2023, through 2nd January, 2024.
Winter solstice 2023
There is a wisdom to this time of the year. Perhaps by just sitting with the dark, the seeds of whatever I must do next will arrive on their own.
Ideas for Living through the Great Unraveling
This year Post Carbon Institute has leaned into the “Great Unraveling” as a label for framing what’s happening in modern society and the natural world. In short, the Great Unraveling represents humanity’s comeuppance from overshoot, a time when debts are coming due and the promise of everlasting growth is fading.
Marburg Gathering | Building Bridges for Future-Proof Food Systems
A family of action-takers: farmers and food systems workers, elected officials, administrations, researchers and educators, and members of civil society organisations – some friends, many strangers – who came together to call for an integrated policy shift for sustainable farming practices and a resilient food system.
Low economic growth can help keep climate change within the 1.5°C threshold
A new study shows that economic growth rates make a big difference when it comes to prospects for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C, as per the Paris Agreement.
