Podcast from the Prairie: Intellectual Grounding
By Robert Jensen, Wes Jackson, Podcast from the Prairie
Welcome to “Podcast from the Prairie.” Wes Jackson, one of the founders of the sustainable agriculture movement, tells stories that take us from lessons learned growing up on a Kansas farm to the front lines of crucial debates about ecological crises and social struggles
Seize a Wrench and the Day
By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
Rex points out what many sociologists have observed: In small communities with limited resources, people get things done through collective effort, which means spending lots of time together, which creates real bonds.
How to Get Off Fossil Fuels Quickly—and Fairly
By Robert Jensen, YES! magazine
There appears to be an underlying assumption that building up wind and solar energy and green infrastructure—this big, industrial initiative that they’re talking about—will be enough working through the market to drive fossil fuels out of the economy. But history, analysis, and research show us that’s not the way things work. New sources of energy in a growing economy simply add to the total energy supply.
Apocalypse, Now and Forever: Review of Notes from an Apocalypse
By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
The ultimate challenge we humans have ever faced may be the multiple, cascading crises of today. Our legacy as a species may well be how we meet the challenge for tomorrow.
The Danger of Inspiration: A Review of On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
Naomi Klein’s new book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, has one crippling flaw—it’s inspiring. At this moment in history, inspiring talk about solutions to multiple, cascading ecological crises is dangerous.
From the Royal to the Prophetic to the Apocalyptic: The Case for a Saving Remnant
By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
The royal, prophetic, and apocalyptic traditions in the Hebrew and Christian bibles provide a compelling framework for understanding progressive intellectual and political work today, as we face the task not only of struggling to create a just and sustainable world but also imagining a saving remnant that will negotiate a radically different future in which both new and old skills, stories, and spaces will be necessary.
Let’s get ‘creaturely’: A new worldview can help us face ecological crises
By Wes Jackson, Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
We argue for the Creaturely based not just on time but more importantly on the greater creativity and efficiency of nature’s ecosystems, compared with the limited vision and mixed record of human cleverness.
Growing a Green New Deal: Agriculture’s Role in Economic Justice and Ecological Sustainability
By Fred Iutzi, Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
We focus here on two proposals for a Green New Deal that are politically viable today but also point us toward the deeper long-term change needed: (1) job training that could help repopulate the countryside and change how farmers work, and (2) research on perennial grain crops that could change how we farm.