First the doom, then the optimism: a Small Farm Future reader poll special
My Plan B is no hey presto. It’s a numbers game. Slowly try to build a second, low-tech, distributed world within and around the edges of the mainstream world.
The Former Extinction Rebellion Campaigners Rallying A Climate Majority
Above all then, we seek to connect people with offers to participate and take action; channelling the undercurrent of citizen energy we believe is already forming tomorrow’s climate majority.
Whose Planet Are We On?
But I must admit that AI, whatever its positives, looks like anything but what the world needs right now to save us from a hell on earth.
Building car-dependent neighborhoods
Car-dependent neighbourhoods arise in a multi-level framework of planning, subsidies, advertising campaigns and cultural choices.
Resisting cannibal capitalism
Capitalism in essence is a cannibal, primed to guzzle its own conditions of possibility.
I Warned Against the Green Energy ‘Boom.’ It Sparked Debate
And then comes the long-term thinking Arcadians. They are asking, how do we learn to live with less and do better to prevent the exhaustion of the Earth’s resources?
How a Tribal Rights Lawyer Is Winning Back the Rights of Nature
Attorney Frank Bibeau found a way to legally protect nature by suing the state of Minnesota in the name of manoomin, or wild rice, sacred to the Ojibwe people.
My speech at Extinction Rebellion’s ‘The Big One’
So let’s make our story one that nurtures and kindles a deep deep longing for the future, whether we have a time machine or not.
Home Soil
In fact, we don’t seem to realize that this living soil is the necessary foundation of a garden. Soil is not dirt.
Accelerating recovery of wild European mammals brings hope of wider nature regeneration
In sum, while the world is facing a human-induced mass extinction event and unprecedented losses of biodiversity and wildlife worldwide, it is important to remember the power we have to make positive choices to protect species and the environments they live in and upon which we all depend.
Public, Private, Communal: Gift is not theft
Not everyone will yet be ready to meet us in commoning. But some will. And these are the friends we will be needing
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
Though, ‘Overshoot’, is ostensibly a book about biophysical limits, the theme that runs through it is about the human propensity for denying obvious facts: Our ability to deceive not only others, but more importantly, ourselves.
