The climate response cliff
By Mary Wildfire, Resilience.org
Thus any solution must come bottom up from ordinary people making the lifestyle changes governments should be directing, prefiguring the world we want to live in…and creating community in the process.
Hacking at the root
By Mary Wildfire, Resilience.org
So how do we hack at the root? I don’t really have an answer but I think a few useful things might include: working continuously to break through corporate control of the narrative, to educate our fellow citizens; fighting to block whatever insanity is pushing through in our own locales; and working to set up ourselves, our families and our communities to get through the coming collapse with as much integrity as possible.
New Booklet on False Solutions to Climate Change
By Mary Wildfire, Hoodwinked in the Hothouse authors, Resilience.org
Starting last summer, people from several organizations have been working to update a booklet on false solutions to climate change (I was involved with this effort for awhile and wrote the first draft of a couple of the sections).
Perilous Bounty: Review
By Mary Wildfire, Resilience.org
Tom Philpott has a book out that examines the impending crises in US agriculture caused by short-sightedness, a relentless profit motive, and the power of corporations over US farm policy.
A Small Farm Future: Review
By Mary Wildfire, Resilience.org
It likely improves the odds if we discuss and prepare for a small farm future; and reading this book can help. I envision study groups passing around a copy and then discussing it.
False Solutions to Climate Change: Real Solutions
By Mary Wildfire, Resilience.org
This has been a long tour through the Wonderland of fake solutions to climate change, ideas designed to splash a coat of green paint on Business As Usual so that certain private interests can keep getting richer…and so the rest of us need not be bothered with changing our habits or lifestyle. This won’t do.
False Solutions to Climate Change: Geoengineering
By Mary Wildfire, Resilience.org
Geoengineering refers to proposals for solving the problem of climate change, not by mitigation—that is, reducing emissions and deforestation, the causes of global heating—but instead by the use of new technologies.
False Solutions to Climate Change: Buildings
By Mary Wildfire, Resilience.org
Estimations for the percentage of greenhouse gases emitted by the buildings sector vary wildly. But any assessment should include both the embodied energy involved in constructing new buildings and the energy costs of heating, cooling and lighting buildings.