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Review: Shalanda H. Baker, Revolutionary Power: An Activist’s Guide to the Energy Transition

By Jane K. Brundage, Resilience.org

Shalanda Baker’s Revolutionary Power: An Activist’s Guide to the Energy Transition (Island Press, January 2021) presents readers with quite a ride! Storyteller, Activist, Law Professor, and (daringly) self-described lover of the Planet, Shalanda Baker covers all the bases and generously shares them in this heady work dedicated to directing the energy transition away from a narrow technical focus in favor of a strategy grounded on environmental and social justice and centering Black, Brown, people of color, and Indigenous people. Baker argues that to achieve optimal results from an energy policy for the ‘electrification of everything’, policymaking must involve the marginalized people who have suffered the worst impacts of the fossil-fuel economy – air pollution with the resulting ill health and now the most severe impacts of extreme weather as the climate crisis accelerates. In recent comments, Jason Grumet, president of the Bipartisan Policy Center, observed that two paths now lie...

  • February 1, 2021
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A Conservative for Our Time

By John de Graaf, Resilience.org

I have come to believe that Udall was actually in many ways, a conservative whose creative ideas may help point America’s way forward in a turbulent, polarized, and destructive time. Above all, Udall was devoted to conserving the land and the beauty of the American landscape.

  • February 1, 2021
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GameStop: Why the elites hate peer-to-peer power

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

Small investors, emboldened by an online Reddit group called WallStreetBets, have so far inflicted nearly $20 billion in losses on their arch short-selling foes as the stock price of GameStop has rocketed from about $17 a share on January 4 to $325 a share on Friday. Will WallStreetBets show itself to be a liberating force? Will it spawn a worldwide movement that demands a rethinking and restructuring of our financial system?

  • January 31, 2021
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Rondout Riverport 2040: Part 2

By Andrew Willner, Resilience.org

Rondout Riverport 2040 will serve as an empowering example to our bioregion and our country – demonstrating the viability of ethical livelihoods and teaching beneficial sustainable technologies that do minimal socio-environmental harm; methodologies that foster self-reliance and promote Slow Tech hands-on work practices.

  • January 29, 2021
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Bringing Community to the Table in Climate Adaptation

By Leslie MacKenzie, Transition US

Transition Longfellow connected climate change to the things our neighbors love and care about the most – their children’s health, their chickens and vegetable gardens, their homes, and favorite businesses.

  • January 28, 2021
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Recovering from COVID

By Vicki Robin, Resilience.org

Many may feel this way now as we emerge from Covid and the Trump presidency - still somewhat skittish after 4 years of waking to ever crazier tweets, threats, and lies – yet cautiously hopeful.

  • January 28, 2021
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Martin Luther King’s vision of an interconnected world is more relevant than ever

By Arthur Romano, Waging Nonviolence

King’s recognition of profound interconnectivity demanded that human security be grounded in the quality of our relationships, the systems we have in place to support people when things get hard, and by creating international frameworks to guarantee equity and human dignity over profit.

  • January 27, 2021
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Reinhabitation: Body, Place, Bioregion

By Daniel Christian Wahl, Findhorn New Story Hub

Confused by the story of separation, many people have tried to seek certainty, control and prediction, rather than embracing uncertainty and humbly accepting the limits of what can be known.

  • January 26, 2021
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Can the peasant speak?

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

As I see it, the case for a turn to peasant farming today is about trying to meet the challenges of the present, not about trying to recross that unbridgeable and silent river of history.

  • January 25, 2021
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A Brief History of Consumer Culture

By Kerryn Higgs, MIT Press Reader

Over the course of the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.

  • January 25, 2021
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The Rubble of Empire

By Rebecca Gordon, Tom Dispatch

How can you tell when your empire is crumbling? Some signs are actually visible from my own front window here in San Francisco.

  • January 21, 2021
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What if a revolution in our relation to land unlocked a revolution of the imagination?

By Rob Hopkins, Josina Calliste, Chris Smaje, Rob Hopkins blog

In today’s episode we bring together Josina Calliste, a health professional and community organiser who is one of the co-founders of Land in Our Names (LION), a black-led collective addressing land inequalities affecting black people and people of colour’s ability to farm and grow food in Britain, and Chris Smaje, author of the book ‘A Small Farm Future‘ and the brilliant blog of the same name.

  • January 21, 2021
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From global drag to radical regionalization

By Jan Juffermans, Resilience.org

For regionalization, not everything has to be done on a small scale or regionally. It is a search for the optimal scale in terms of transport, energy use, production options, mineral cycle and many other aspects.

  • January 19, 2021
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The Earth Does Not Belong to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk

By Liz Theoharis, Tom Dispatch

After all, the best hope of successfully navigating the crises of 2021 and beyond must involve King’s dream of building a multi-racial fusion movement to reconstruct society from the bottom up.

  • January 18, 2021
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