Autumn in July
Somehow I could see us taking on these ridiculously challenging adaptations to the mess we’ve made of things sooner than actually doing anything to just clean up the mess…
The Energy Bulletin Weekly July 19, 2022
US front-month natural gas futures closed at $6.426 cents per million Btus, compared to gas trading at around $48 per mmBtu in Europe and $39 in Asia.
Ep. 62: Restoring Landscapes and Livelihoods in Western Bosnia
After many years of navigating Bosnia’s complicated bureaucracy, the Cincar co-op recently achieved a major milestone. Their cheese received a “protected designation of origin” or P.D.O. That means only cheese made from the milk of sheep and cows from Livanjsko polje can be labeled “Livno cheese.”
How change happens: Lessons from Australia’s bombshell election
After nine long years of an increasingly far-right, climate change denying Liberal National Party coalition (LNP) government, the citizens of Australia voted for change.
How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia
By focusing on reciprocity and the common good—both for the community and the environment—sea gardening created bountiful food without putting populations at risk of collapse.
Rapid transition to beat the heat – Housing
Addressing the shortcomings of our housing stock in the face of increasingly frequent and severe heat waves could stimulate rapid transitions in a variety of key transition areas, such as heat pump installations and reclaiming streetscapes from cars.
The Local Planet and the Global Empire of Corporations
From all that has been seen, it can be affirmed that the future of the planet will be local, or it will not be.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Review
If humanity is to deflect from the current disastrous path, we need a change of consciousness. Reading a book like Braiding Sweetgrass can illuminate the alternate path. I recommend it without reservation.
From regenesis to re-exodus: of George Monbiot, mathematical modernism and the case for agrarian localism
We don’t need re-genesis, but a de-urbanizing re-exodus to places where we can create such food cultures. The real lesson from George Monbiot’s grandmother, I’d submit, is not the narrowness of her diet but the breadth of her knowledge.
Protecting Nature’s Threatened Biodiversity – A MAHB Dialogue with Paula Ehrlich, CEO E.O. Wilson Foundation
Biodiversity is all the life around us, all the variation of life found on Earth. It’s the species that make up the web of life of which we are a part. Biodiversity matters because each and every species matters.
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution
Away from the screens of the mainstream media, the crude ‘bigger is better’ narrative that has dominated economic thinking for centuries is being challenged.
Lurching from food crisis to food crisis
There are tonnes of good ideas on the table about how to reshape our food systems – and fleets of social movements eager to take the reins and put them in practice. Perhaps this food crisis can serve to bring movements together to get some serious action going.
