Feed Us with Trees: Excerpt
As Reed and I talked about acorns, eventually I realized that what we were really discussing was something entirely different. We were trading cultural stories about what it means to be human.
A clown and two romances
In ways I won’t rehash again here, I think our society puts too much weight on the term ‘farmer’, and still more on ‘real farmer’. One reason I’ve embraced the identity of ‘farmer’ is to push back against this, but I’ve sometimes felt uncomfortable when others represent me as an example of that revered and semi-mythical being, the real farmer.
Is This Planning Ahead?
Any Government seriously planning ahead would put adaptation to climate change at the centre of their plans, because without that, planning for anything else just isn’t going to work.
The Summer Solstice 2025
Most of us are not very good gardeners. We think we are making all that life happen when life happens of itself — and these days, often despite us.
How the commons, unlike other movements for change, can reach working-class communities
All civilisations fall in the end. The Roman Empire is long gone, along with the ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Sumerians. Will the global civilisation of corporate capitalism buck the trend? Of course not, but how long does it have left?
Commoning, diversity and small-scale manufacturing
A healthy ecosystem is diverse and small-scale manufacturing systems have the potential to contain much more diversity than industrial levels of production. I use bread and linen – basic daily items of food and textiles to illustrate this position.
The Great Power Shift: Decentralization, Reparations, and the Fight for Energy Justice
True resilience isn’t about making the grid bigger. It’s about making systems smarter, accessible, and locally adaptable.
The turbulent globe: Resources and climate change in the background
The conflicts we see today may have many causes, but the fight over resources and the consequences of climate change are ever more relevant.
How Inclusionary Social Movements Succeed
Social movements are powerful engines for change, and they coalesce around a vast range of issues, causes, and communities. But they fall into two basic categories: inclusionary and exclusionary.
Ecosystems as Models for Restoring our Economies to a Sustainable State, 2nd Edition: Excerpt
Frail supply chains and market volatility are not the only by-products of global market capitalism. The degree of global consumption under the current system far exceeds any previous epoch, and wealth has become concentrated into even fewer hands.
The new Infrastructure Strategy is not…strategic
Will the Government’s new spending and planning priorities, as seen in the Infrastructure Strategy coupled with the recent spending review, actually help make British citizens and communities more resilient in the difficult times we are moving into?
Conservation Innovations: How Sustained Resistance Is Saving One of the Earth’s Most Critical Rainforests From Corporate Greed
As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.
