Sustainability can (and must) be beautiful
To fulfill the vision that sets the practice of sustainability in motion—the vision of life coordinating with life in ways that ensure the flourishing of life—ethics and aesthetics must be reintegrated.
Is “Polycrisis” the Right Word for Our Times?
But as the American anthropologist and historian Joseph Tainter documents in his seminal book, The Collapse of Complex Societies, this is what “advanced,” hierarchical human societies do—they respond to challenges created by their complexity with ever more complexity. This may work in the short-term but usually leads to the underlying crises worsening in the long term.
Are we seeing the collapse of the dollar-dominated global economy?
The near future is one of grave uncertainty and instability as the new global monetary regime takes shape.
Why gas stoves matter to the climate – and the gas industry: Keeping them means homes will use gas for heating too
As I see it, if “cooking with gas” keeps us tethering new homes to natural gas grids for decades to come, our health, climate and wallets will pay the price.
What determines the success of movements today?
Building on the recommendations of other movement strategists, new research from the Social Change Lab offers key insights into the factors that lead to protest wins.
Urban ‘Microrewilding’ Projects Provide a Lifeline for Nature
Until now rewilding, which is by its very nature a large-scale effort, has been concentrated in the countryside and rural areas. More recently, however, there have been a number of projects and local movements pushing for more urban rewilding and at a smaller scale.
Food and agriculture number crunching, part 2
By and large there is a far too simplistic debate about the role of livestock in our food and agriculture systems.
The Good Work In Urban-Rural
A new course in Sweden poses the question, “what will a self-sufficient Hällefors Municipality taste like in 2030?”
Students on the course act like talent scouts. They search for unrealised food-growing potential across the region – people, unused land, forgotten traditions.
Why Biodiversity?
Ultimately, the Earth will survive after the sixth mass extinction event, but it will do so without us unless we care enough to change.
How the UK’s push to reach net-zero could deliver key health benefits
Of the separate actions we modelled, the greatest contribution to health improvement was from home energy efficiency measures, such as wall and loft insulation (over 800,000 life years gained by 2050), assuming that adequate ventilation requirements are met.
Towards cooperative commonwealth: Transition in a perilous century
Changing the priorities, policies, and rules to preserve the commonwealth of all beings of the earth rather than the private wealth of the few is possible, but it is not guaranteed.
Pandora’s Box: Anthropogenic Aerosols and Climate Change
If the warming effect of anthropogenic aerosols is predominant, this must also be factored into decarbonisation models. It adds another component of warming to an already dangerously overheating system.
