Farming by Numbers part 2
For Stéphane and his associates on their six-hectare horticulture farm, GAEC Le Jardin des Pierres Bleues, every choice is calculated to yield the best outcomes for people and planet.
Community Foresters Unite to Save Biodiversity Hotspot
As part of Mexico’s world-renowned community forestry model for sustainability, the example of the Chimalapas shines. It has produced important results in conservation of a natural biosphere considered one of the most important lungs of Mexico.
Democracy Rising 17: Earth Overshoot Demands Stronger Civic Infrastructure
In Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy, Tina Nabatchi and I defined civic infrastructure as “the laws, processes, institutions, and associations that support regular opportunities for people to connect with each other, solve problems, make decisions, and celebrate community.”
Power: Chapter 2. Power in the Pleistocene
The power to communicate aesthetic pleasure and thereby to feel profound affinity with other people, including individuals of other species, propel human culture forward in ways that are hard to measure, but that are impossible to ignore. These are powers that provide hope for our future.
Mothering Mozambique’s Mangroves Back to Life
Villagers along the Limpopo River are restoring an estuary and securing their food supply, one mangrove at a time.
Energy Crises in the Time of Covid: Precarious Fossil Infrastructures
If electricity is to be the centerpiece of a renewable future, we have much work to do. We should start by demanding accountable public oversight of electric systems.
A further note on gender, families and households in a small farm future
Men are best connected through kinship to a caring household (so are women, but that seems to be easier to achieve), and households in turn are best connected to wider networks of social institutions.
The Climate and the Republic, Melting Down in Real Time
The clock is ticking. In the upcoming months, we’ll need to strive for a leap even as we brace ourselves for a slide.
The finance curse and the British economy
In short, the book suggests that the UK economy has a financial sector that is about significantly larger than it needs to be to service the productive parts of the economy, and the effects of this are almost completely extractive.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 25 April 2022
Headlines for the week of April 18-24
“Four Meals From Anarchy” – We Must Grow More Food Locally
Providing sufficient access to affordable food for its population is an underpinning prerequisite for any properly functioning society, and given the clear risks posed by the UK’s current heavy reliance on imports, far more domestic – particularly locally based – food production must be established as a matter of urgency, i.e. before people begin to go hungry.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 76 Stephanie Rearick
Stephanie Rearick is the Founder and former Co-Director of the Dane County TimeBank (DCTB) – a 2800-member time exchange, and Creative Director of Mutual Aid Networks, a new type of networked cooperative. She answers the question of What Could Possibly Go Right?
