Regenerative Agriculture: Our Best Shot at Cooling the Planet?
Soil is the second biggest reservoir of carbon on the planet, next to the oceans. It holds four times more carbon than all the plants and trees in the world.
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Standing Rock and the Return of the Nonviolent Campaign
Nonviolent campaigns are often dramatic and catch the attention of millions—think of Standing Rock water protectors resolute in the face of a brutal police force. All the more puzzling that the concept of a “nonviolent campaign” is little known and often ignored when people talk about how to mobilize power, for example, to prevent Donald Trump from erasing gains made in addressing climate change.
The Case for the Power of Culture
Let’s begin by stopping our addiction to thinking in big structural terms. There is value in the scaling-up structural visions and strategies for growing our movements for co-operative/solidarity economics [2] and deep social change. However, structural strategies by themselves are like a one-armed swimmer moving upstream into a heady current.
Tales of Agri-Resistance
There is nothing quite like the smell of the brewing of Arabic coffee prepared on burning olive branches, just pruned during the olive harvest. The smell of heil (cardamom) cooked in coffee, and the aroma of the burning wood, are almost as delicious as the day’s first cup sipped atop the dry limestone walls that separate the terraces of the wadi (valley).
Positive Thinking in a Dark Age
I recall a Buddhist parable involving a stick that appears from a distance to be a snake, causing fear to rise in the perceiver. As the perception shifts upon closer examination, the fear subsides and the relieved hiker continues down the path. Understanding and awareness have a lot to do with how we feel and how we act. As hosts to the dominant cultural mindset (our collective understanding of who we are in the universe), our minds play a critical part in both perpetuating our dominant way of life and also in shifting away from it.
Robert Macfarlane: How Language Reconnects Us with Place
I have come to realize that language is an indispensable portal into the deeper mysteries of the commons. The words we use – to name aspects of nature, to evoke feelings associated with each other and shared wealth, to express ourselves in sly, subtle or playful ways – our words themselves are bridges to the natural world. They mysteriously makes it more real or at least more socially legible.
Live Without Dead Thyme: A Photo Tour of a Garden
I spent Saturday night under a 100 year old pear tree with David Holmgren, Su Dennett, and a spirited gathering of Victorian permaculturalists, for their annual summer solstice party. My household’s urban homestead doesn’t compare…
Welcome to the new site… same as the old site, only better
If you’re a previous visitor of resilience.org you’ll notice that things look… well, a little different. Longtime visitors will remember that the site was re-branded and re-launched back in 2011 (from EnergyBulletin.net) to more accurately reflect the breadth and depth of the site, which had evolved from its first days as clearinghouse of news and information … Read more
There is only One Culture: Bringing Back Science into the Fold of Humanism
If we want to save the world, we don’t need gadgetry, we need to be what we are: human beings.
At Standing Rock, No One Goes Hungry: The Kitchen That Serves Traditional Lakota Food and Values
Hundreds of water protectors gathered in a solar-powered 200-foot geodesic dome nestled on the plains amid tipis and waited three hours to join a traditional Lakota dinner on Thanksgiving.
From Oil Age to Soil Age
To put it another way: modern citizens today use more energy and physical resources in a month than our great-grandparents used during their whole lifetime.
Black Food Sovereignty: Urban, Rural, and International Connections
Food sovereignty and not merely security, land ownership not tenancy, and thriving not just surviving are the goals of an Earthcare Coalition mobilizing around the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent.
