Editor’s picks

From the Royal to the Prophetic to the Apocalyptic: The Case for a Saving Remnant

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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.

The Neurosis of the Lone Revolutionary

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Remember in the midst of your neurosis and discouragement as you consider the huge problems we face:  training ourselves and the upcoming generations to face life on earth with a cheerful frugality is advancing the revolution in its own slow way.

Ben Goldfarb on How Beavers can Boost the Collective Imagination

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One of the finest books I’ve read recently was ‘Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter’ by Ben Goldfarb. Ben is an American environmental journalist who has taken great interest in this remarkable creature and its ability to, as he put it when we spoke, “help tackle many of our ecological problems if we just get out of the way and let the rodent do the work”. 

Ecofeminism to Escape Collapse

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From my point of view –which comes from systems dynamics and environmentalism rather than from feminism– one of the tools that can best help feminist economics articulate a coherent discourse is the pattern of collapse.

From Despair to Repair

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As a story teller and pot-stirrer and social innovator I am now on the hunt for what will put the soil and water and regeneration story on everyone’s lips, to have teenagers to grandmothers march for healthy soil, to have policies that transform degraded land into garden landscapes.