Whose Polycrisis?
Unless the Polycrisis seriously questions the drivers of power and finds ways of challenging them, it risks becoming yet another neoliberal policy buzzword.
Digging in and digging deep: My experience at Ecosystem Restoration Camp Altiplano
At some point it became clear to me that ecosystem restoration is an incredibly positive way for anyone to participate in addressing the problems we face today, and that this is of great importance to communities all around the world.
Manifesto for an Ecosocial Energy Transition from the People of the South
A new manifesto critiques the “clean energy” transitions of the Global North and offers an alternative vision from the Global South.
The end of the world is just the beginning…
When the high-energy authoritarian political centres fail, which ultimately they will, my hope is that some of these ‘irrelevant’ places will have forged resilient material cultures and mature political institutions that will enable them to usher our descendants into the next chapter of human history.
New ARC Report | Carbon Farming – Stakes, Issues and Alternatives
Will carbon farming be a greenwashing disaster or a real opportunity for farmers and climate change mitigation?
Entrepatios: Cooperative housing thrives in Spain
Entrepatios, a cohousing building in Madrid, is now home to 17 families and boasts the title of the first zero carbon footprint housing cooperative in the city.
‘The Oil Machine’: How environmental grand narratives obstruct ‘real’ change
We need a new, more radical paradigm, which exposes the modern technological lifestyle as an ‘economic suicide cult’.
Love, Nature, Magic: Excerpt
Facing my fears head-on—by observing and working with nature up close, getting to speak with the things that scare me so that I can understand them instead—has enabled me to embrace wildness in a whole new way.
Our future isn’t a problem to be solved
The best we can do is have lots of ideas, lots of tools, lots of ways of thinking, all ready at hand when crises of whatever flavor come barreling down that hill.
Integrating Landscapes and People
Focusing on compassion and personal transformation as a prerequisite for external, wider-world change, Commonland’s use of Theory U processes sets its approach apart from traditional landscape restoration projects, which typically focus on biodiversity alone.
Avoid the agricultural treadmill by moving food into the civil sphere
Food is not, should not, primarily be seen as a commodity to be bought or sold. To a large extent food is an expression of culture, solidarity and connectedness with the land. Food is also a human right.
Gaya Herrington: “Humanity’s Soul: Life or Growth?”
On this episode, Nate speaks with econometrician and sustainability researcher Gaya Herrington about her new book, Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse, a more in-depth and personal telling of her 2021 review of the Limits to Growth (LTG).
