Restoring ecological balance and building community: Rocciaviva’s network in Basilicata
Association Rocciaviva (Living Rock in Italian) was born out of Piero Franco’s desire to help his community and restore the region of Basilicata, Italy.
Decolonizing Economics: African and Feminist Perspectives on Post-Growth Futures
Feminist decolonial discourse helps ensure that progress is more inclusive, just, and transformative for all.
Offering oil and gas licences every year distracts from the challenge of winding down UK North Sea
New areas for oil and gas development on the UK’s North Sea continental shelf are to be made available through annual licensing rounds subject to net zero tests. These proposals by the UK government, outlined in the 2023 king’s speech to parliament, fly in the face of recommendations by the Climate Change Committee – the government’s own independent advisers.
Energy Descent, a Kaleidoscopic Dialogue
It may seem odd that I’d begin an essay on the topic of energy descent as I am, by speaking of this theme specifically as a topic of philosophical concern. But I have my reasons for doing so, as hopefully you’ll soon understand.
Fossil Free Food Systems: Jason Bradford, Andrew Millison, Vandana Shiva, Daniel Zetah
On this Reality Roundtable, Nate is joined by small-scale farmer Jason Bradford, permaculturist and documentarian Andrew Millison, regenerative agriculture activist Vandana Shiva, and regenerative farmer and educator Daniel Zetah to discuss the feasibility of a food system fully or mostly independent of fossil fuel inputs.
We’ll never run out of sand, right?
If there is one resource that seems like it would be truly inexhaustible, it’s sand. But we are now using sand at an unsustainable rate.
Why wage work?
There is so much work that needs to be done, and almost none of it is in an office or a shop. The garden of the world needs to be weeded. This home needs to be cleaned. This body needs nourishing food. And we all need to rest and recover — so we may build new, more durable, more beautiful, more rewarding relationships with the world when the spring returns.
The Upstream Questions: What We Ask Of Science
If the question is not made explicit – if the existence of upstream questions, these questions that take us beyond the boundaries of what science can tell us about climate change, is not recognised – then the default answer will be to treat it as bad luck and pursue some combination of techno-fixes and lifestyle adjustments.
The Lost Flock: Excerpt
My little flock expanded in November 2013 when Bob told me about a ram lamb for sale from a Boreray flock in the Highlands that had started with sheep from Bob.
Kayaking with Lambs: Excerpt
We have spent many years planning, building, and repairing the infrastructure to support multiple endeavors, to make the farm resilient, to create and sustain a place where the absence of one species simply indicates another cycle, unremarked in the larger scheme.
Activists Decry FERC Rush to Construct LNG Gas Terminal, Say Permits for More Potential ‘Train Wreck’
On my latest flight surveying fossil fuel industry sites in southwest Louisiana at the end of September, I photographed liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities, signs of drought, fire-scarred stretches of marsh, and a salt dome site at risk of collapsing.
A Native-led future — ‘Healing Turtle Island’ from genocide and colonialism
Fundamentally, we need to figure out what and who we are, where we come from, and what we need to do now in order to contribute to the making of a new sacred agreement between all the people living in North America, in addition to acknowledging the colonial crimes made throughout history.
