America First: Can it be squared with proposed ‘annexation’ of Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal?
Is there a contradiction between the Trump administration’s America First policy and its actions? Maybe not.
Audrey Tang — Digital Democracy: Moving Beyond ‘Big Tech’ to Save Open Societies
Today Nate is joined by Taiwanese Digital Ambassador at large, Audrey Tang, to explore real-world examples of how technology is being leveraged globally to address – and in some cases reverse – critical societal challenges, such as polarization, misinformation, and the erosion of trust in governments and institutions.
Finding the most effective ways to plant trees
In line with the goals of the Ecosystem Restoration Communities movement the group strongly agrees that we need to significantly increase the number of farmers or local community members that can propagate tree-growth across Europe, and the planned visits are aimed at equipping the local leaders and experts that attended this first gathering with new tools and insights!
Beyond Community Currencies: Strengthening Your Local Economy
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Renewable Energy Communities (REC), legal entities that collectively manage energy, promoting economic, social, and environmental benefits for their community. This model of citizen management over an essential resource has been widely accepted — so could a similar principle be applied to money?
Community farm plans “joyful celebration” in spite of funding setback
Bristol food producers have had hopes of lifeline-funding dashed after the UK national government abruptly closed subsidy applications.
A Different “Abundance Agenda”: Avoiding Delusions and Diversions
Our choices are clear: We can drill more, which will simply get us to a cruel end game even sooner. We can pretend that technology will save us, which might delay that reckoning. If we can abandon the delusions and diversions, there’s no guarantee of a happy future. But there’s a chance of a future.
The Growing Inequality Among Countries and the Worsening Climate Crisis
The inequality of industrialization got us into this crisis, and addressing that inequality is the only way out.
The View from Washington
To describe Washington, DC, as anything other than a circus would be to do it an injustice. Mind you, it’s not just any circus. It’s a two-ring Roman Circus with President Trump as its master.
Ishmael: Chapter 1
Ishmael characterizes the young people’s efforts in the sixties as trying to escape from captivity, but failing to do so “because they were unable to find the bars of the cage.” People of our culture would be relieved to escape captivity, and to simultaneously release Earth from its dire path toward collapse—except we can’t identify the bars.
Trump’s Second Act: Power, Resistance, and the Limits of Governance
Watch “Trump’s Second Act: Power, Resistance, and the Limits of Governance,” with Richard Heinberg and Ed Saltzberg of Security and Sustainability Forum.
Some First Nations Ready ‘To Rise’ If Poilievre Lifts BC Oil Tanker Ban
A DeSmog dispatch from Prince Rupert, which could be ground zero for Canada’s next big oil export fight.
Could a Rustic Cow Reshape Local French Food Systems?
The Filière Nantaise stands as a model of how such policy ambitions can be put into practice on the ground. It is proving that small-scale, local, and rare can also mean ambitious, forward-thinking, and economically viable.
