Under a White Sky: Review
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
In Under a White Sky Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction, examines the future world we are engineering.
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Reclaiming power
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
The rapid rise of community renewable energy and why the added benefits of local, clean power can help accelerate transition
Capitalism, the Doomsday Machine (or, How to Repurpose Growth Capital)
By Richard Heinberg, Common Dreams
Why wait for collapse? Repurposing growth capital now could help unwind the doomsday machine sooner rather than later.
What Is a Migrant Worth?
By Elsie Roderiques, Common Dreams
The root cause of our social and environmental challenges is neoliberalism and the fetish of the market, which values profit over people and sees nature simply as a commodity.
Rewilding
By Joshua Sterlin, Uneven Earth
There is a growing movement, largely allied with anarchist, radical environmentalist, and decolonial practice, repurposing the term rewilding to be a political and cultural project that is more than merely conservation biology, one that thinks about nature with the people in.
Swidden as politics
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
But the choice of swidden that interests me most for my present purposes is when it’s adopted as a way to avoid being caught in a political net of constant productivity gain and, ultimately, state centralization and ‘modernization’.
Correspondences: Excerpt
By Tim Ingold, Resilience.org
The truth is that in a more-than-human world, nothing exists in isolation. Humans may share this world with non-humans, but by the same token, stones share it with non-stones, trees with non-trees and mountains with non-mountains.
The Gift of Ecological Humility
By Leah Penniman, YES! magazine
Many of us have forgotten that our cultural heritage as Black people includes ecological humility, the idea that humans are kin to, not masters of, nature.
Making Climate Policy Work
By Chris Nelder, Energy Transition Show
Why have nearly all attempts to price carbon failed, while targeted policies to achieve certain objectives, like phase out coal plants or increase wind and solar generation, succeeded? And how can we design climate policies that are truly effective?
Nomadland: The Lifetime Impacts of Gender-Bias in Wages
By Chuck Collins, Common Dreams
For example, why do women retire with significantly lower Social Security benefits, after a lifetime of gender prejudiced earnings?
Review of New Maps, the latest deindustrial fiction quarterly
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
As its name alludes, this visionary new fiction quarterly seeks to challenge our current mental maps of the future.
Climate Security: Beyond the Binary of Denial or Doomsday
By Nathan Ellis, Resilience.org
The geopolitics of climate change, and more specifically, climate security, has become attached to some very destructive modes of thought. Of particular interest are the ways in which the work of Thomas Malthus has become attached to the meaning of climate change.