Garden planning from the book cellar
For those who don’t know where to start or who just want more tips I have some recommendations on books that I use every year in planning and implementing food production.
It’s getting to look a lot like degrowth: Part 2
Voluntary degrowth, I fear, is beyond our leaders’ capacity to imagine and beyond our society’s capacity to implement.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 98 Kristin Ohlson
Kristin Ohlson is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. She shares her latest thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right?
Global Polycrisis as a Pathway for Economic Transition
As the global polycrisis worsens, transformational change will be significantly encumbered by crises, breakdown, and collapse scenarios.
Dangers from future technologies? It’s the current ones that are killing us
It is fashionable to be pessimistic about new and emerging technologies. Less fashionable is dealing with the existing technologies that are already killing us and the biosphere.
Unite to Win: A groundbreaking coalition of groups to join ‘The Big One’
It is possible to change society in a way that is just and fair, to put care for people and nature at the forefront. It is possible to rediscover our collective power and change the course of history together. To make this a reality, this moment calls for a mass movement to stand together and become impossible to ignore.
Turning a Pain in the [Coal] Ash into an Asset
What if encapsulated coal ash could assist solar and wind energy resources to avoid their intermittency problem?
Remembering Jerry Mander
We too have had our great dreams, but now the corporate-run media, the corporate world, have them for us. Part of what Jerry Mander is crusading for is to encourage us to have great dreams again.
In the Face of Cascading Crises, What Can I Do?
If you have the capacity, I encourage you to revisit your values, review your past actions, and commit to doing something more this year. Any action, no matter how small, that’s congruent with solid values will make a difference.
Saying NO to a farm-free future
The time has come to announce my new book, Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future: The Case for an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods.
Will the West Turn Ukraine into a Nuclear Battlefield?
While the UK’s decision to send depleted-uranium shells to Ukraine is unlikely to prove a turning point in the war’s outcome, it will have a lasting, potentially devastating, impact on soldiers, civilians, and the environment.
Atlanta’s “Cop City” and the Struggle for Climate Justice
For the past two years, a broad, loose coalition comprising neighborhood associations, schools, environmental groups, justice activists, civic leaders, and forest defenders has been pushing back hard against what they call “Cop City”.
