The Energy Bulletin Weekly: lst June, 2022
Headlines for the week of May 23-30
Dr. Stephan Harding on Gaia Alchemy and the Animate Earth
If Earth is indeed Gaia, and we humans are a living part of Gaia, then maybe the living biosphere has something to say to us.
The supply chain crisis: Transitory or systemic?
Five decades should have been enough for us to find the path to prosperity without growth. Apparently, we didn’t take the lesson to heart.
The Living Soil Handbook: Excerpt
In the 11 years I have been farming, all I can claim credit for is making the conditions right (and sometimes, admittedly, very wrong) for food and flowers to grow.
Give Back Stolen Land
Viewed from the perspective of history, Treuer notes laceratingly, America’s national parks are a crime scene.
Democracy Rising 20: Deliberative Dialogue as Service Learning
Through deliberative pedagogy, students are prepared to participate in solving problems important to them and their communities.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 81 Helaine Olen
Helaine Olen is an award-winning opinion writer for the Washington Post Opinion section. An expert on money and society with a deep understanding of public policy, she writes, speaks and consults on issues including Social Security, retirement, healthcare, student loans and women’s financial issues. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Climate change, energy, and an unstable grid: The mainstream belatedly gets the connections
I enter summer with a sense of foreboding, not only about a simmering war in Ukraine, but also the stability of basic energy infrastructure and our ability to function if the lights, computers, and the water, sewer and gasoline pumps go out for an extended period.
Supporting Indigenous Practices
Supporting indigenous Territorialities goes beyond supporting biodiversity conservation; it is also an invitation to organize and reinscribe communal systems that have been erased and dismantled all over the world by the increasing expansion of the capitalist economy and the conservation paradigm.
Ukraine | the Green Road of Ecovillages – Communities that Protect
The Green Road has seen the global and the local Ukrainian ecovillage and permaculture communities involved in ongoing emergency support for people fleeing the war.
Movements are vying for political power — is ‘co-governance’ the answer?
Those promoting co-governance describe it as a new relationship between social movements and the candidates they help win office — a partnership in which activists and elected officials work to maintain a long-term relationship, closely coordinate strategy and advance grassroots priorities.
The struggle for what’s essential
Whether communities are fighting to address mining harms or standing in the way of these unwanted projects, their struggles are potent examples of the sort of reimagining and digging in for fundamental change that Arundhati Roy urged at the start of this pandemic.
