How to rapidly reduce fossil fuel use
Using rationing to reduce fossil fuel use—especially in the Global North—has already come close to political reality.
Reflections on ‘Beyond Growth’
In the context of this growing and relevant conversation, Nate unpacks what the degrowth movement is getting right, but also what is missing from the conversation.
‘Regenerative’ Agriculture is Disunifying, and that is Okay
It is time for “regenerative food systems” to radicalize or get out of the way, to step aside and allow human-scale, disruptive, actually diverse and localized collectives to emerge and feed the world, one community by one community at a time.
A Portable Hospitality
Hospitality isn’t charity. It is belonging. Only those who belong with soil, people, animals, plants and fungi are ever truly at home.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 102 Alisa Gravitz
For over 35 years, Alisa Gravitz has led Green America, the national green economy organization that develops marketplace solutions to social and environmental problems with a key focus on climate, regenerative agriculture, labor justice and responsible finance. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Seeing More Clearly
How have we tolerated the dissonance between our comfortable lifestyles and the deadly costs trailing along behind them?
Community Radio and Social Power
As small-scale stations whose airwaves spread over short distances, community radio stations deal with local issues and problems, while at the same time they examine the multiple threads that exist between nature and culture.
Review: The Crash Course, Revised Edition by Chris Martenson
As a comprehensive guide to the intractable challenges facing our society and how best to navigate them, The Crash Course has few rivals.
Are you preparing for degrowth? And if not, why not?
In any event, whether or not you believe a paradigm shift is coming, it still makes sense to act as if you do; because, like Pascal’s Wager, the consequences of betting the wrong way are infinitely worse.
Silage and the silence of the corncrake
Dublin, Ireland. We are seeing the first good days here, leading up to the golden days of mid-summer, and I’ve been talking to elderly friends here in the Irish countryside about what they used to do when the sun shone. The answer, of course, was that they made hay. When farmers heard the cry of … Read more
Faster and faster: The pace of climate change keeps surprising us
The acceleration of climate change is in the news more and more.
Kaiao, Elua
It is makahiki, the beginning of the rains
and through this falling fertility
the garden crying out
with a deeper, a darker gingery voice
to these young gardeners…
