How Britain fell in and out of love with roads
Welcome to the modern world. Just at the point in history when we needed to manage our consumption, we had installed all the conditions for a fossil-fuel driven boom in consumerism.
Back to the future with a new bioregional journal
Cascadia has a new bioregional journal, Cascadia Spoke. The journal is a revival of that good old medium that has graced the world with so many great journals, bioregional and other. Paper and print.
Reflections, Predictions and Intentions | Frankly #21
I still fundamentally believe in the emergent human response to collective challenges – but to do that, more people need to see the systems synthesis of what we face – which was the initial thrust of this platform.
Nuclear Fusion: Don’t believe the hype!
So why all this attention toward the imagined potential for fusion energy? It is yet another attempt by those who believe that only a mega-scaled, technology-intensive approach can be a viable alternative to our current fossil fuel-dependent energy infrastructure.
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 6
In short, keeping animals teaches you how to respect life. You respect it when you raise it, and you respect it if you take it, and you certainly do not look at food in the same way.
Pandora’s Box: Emerging Threats to Climate Stability
If the research is correct and we did suffer a total breakdown of the microlayer, even massive carbon emissions mitigation would do little to staunch the earth’s climate unraveling.
From Polycrisis to Permacrisis
Permacrisis is the joining of the prefix perma- (which means a fixed state) and crisis, resulting in a word that means ‘a state of permanent crisis’ (or according to Collins Dictionary “an extended period of instability and insecurity, especially one resulting from a series of catastrophic events.”)
Can our current global system coexist with pandemics?
The COVID pandemic hasn’t ended. We’ve become tired of it and moved on. But nature doesn’t move on just because we do and I’ve been wondering about whether we are in denial because the global system we’ve built simply isn’t compatible with pandemics.
Rewilding the Political
The reality is our existing politics compromises that future and, like carbon and capitalism, needs to be dismantled, transcended and replaced so that more radical forms of democracy can take root.
How We Got Here: Ecological Restoration’s Surprising History
There’s so much money being put toward ecological restoration around the world and the United Nations recently declared this to be the decade of ecosystem restoration. So it’s a really important moment to be thinking about how to better align the goals of ecological restoration with the goals of social justice.
Overcoming Colonial Thinking to Connect With Life
In attending to my surroundings—from grasses to fences to building—my shoulders unclench and my breath slows. Any healing that might emerge in the environment, then, is mutual.
Why we need the solidarity economy
Collectively developing our capacity to self-govern and develop place-based solidarity economy movements is among the most urgent matters of our time.
