The Energy Bulletin Weekly 25 July 2022
Natural-gas futures have jumped 48% this month—including 10% on Wednesday —to $8.007 per million British thermal units, reversing last month’s plunge and reviving a key driver of inflation.
Embodying degrowth and turning the movement inside out
The degrowth movement has both the potential and a mandate to go beyond a distributional and ecological critique of GDP growth, and to include a broader reflection on what constitutes an existentially meaningful mode of being interdependent with the planet.
Considering Regenesis: A Perspective from the Sustainable Food Trust
Despite these criticisms, Regenesis is a valuable book. It challenges us to think outside the box, presents at least some of the dilemmas with which it wrestles in an even-handed way and introduces us to a technology we may hear more about in future, whether we like it or not.
Reclaiming Your Attention is Key to Cultivating Resilience and Avoiding Burnout: Part 1
The concept of ‘directed attention’ from environmental psychology offers an approach to self-care that’s available to anyone.
Will civilization collapse because it’s running out of oil?
This time, we’re going to have to start coming to terms with nature’s limits. That means shared sacrifice, cooperation, and belt tightening.
The “we’ll-just-adapt-to-climate-change” team takes drubbing
Adaptation to climate change alone is already a failed strategy.
Letter From The Farm | Learning from a Campesino Family in Cuba
Welcome to La Finca del Medio, a 13.42-hectare family farm located in central Cuba, which is championing food sovereignty in the agroecological way.
Let There Be Dragons
Barnhill is telling the story of one of these resilient alternative cultures in terms of dragons. As such, it doesn’t seem like a road map for reality. But it is. Because Barnhill’s dragons are women.
The Radical Roots of Community Supported Agriculture
At the most human level, reconnecting people around the growing of their own food may prove to be among our most effective means of healing our widespread sense of disconnection from nature and community.
Ecosystem Restoration after Disaster: Hotlum Eco-Regeneration Camp and its response to the Lava Fire
As the climate crisis deepens, Ecosystem Restoration Camps sites are responding to increasing natural disasters in different ways. Today, we are highlighting Eco-Regeneration Camp Hotlum, California, and its experience recovering from the devastating Lava Fire of 2021.
Joan Diamond: “From Kool-aid to Lemonade”
Diamond helps us imagine the future in an uncertain time. How can we create robust strategies to help us plan? How can we avoid thinking only of worst-case scenarios?
Banks are incentivised to fund climate chaos. Here’s how to change that
Left to its own volition, the financial sector will continue to be complicit in environmental degradation unless stringent mechanisms are put in place to ensure that it complies with net-zero obligations and divests from fossil fuels.
