Yes, Britain is corrupt. But it’s a lot worse than you think
By Adam Ramsay, Open Democracy
But once we understand that kleptocracy is a process at the heart of the modern global economy, we see that Britain is a lot worse than it seems at first.
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Who will Guard the Guardians: Direct Democracy as Suspicion of Authority
By Yavor Tarinski, Towards Autonomy
It is only by opening up institutions and decision-making processes to the whole of the population, that we can create a more just society.
Amazon’s least-deforested areas are due to ‘vital role’ of Indigenous peoples
By Yanine Quiroz, Carbon Brief
Only 5% of net forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon occurs in Indigenous territories and protected areas – even though these areas contain more than half of the region’s forest.
Agriculture productivity – Food and agriculture number crunching, part 4
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
In total some 850 million people are working in agriculture globally of which more than half in lower-middle income countries (e.g. India, Indonesia, Kenya) and just 16 million in high income countries.
Binna Choi of the Casco Art Institute: Curating Art through Commoning
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Choi has brought the ethic and practices of commoning to the creation of art and its exhibition. She and her colleagues have embraced commoning as an organizing principle for how a diverse team of artists can make art and work together.
Food and agriculture number crunching, part 3
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
Almost 3,000 kcal per person per day is made available for consumers, who "need" in the range of 2,100 kcal per person per day.
David Sloan Wilson: “Chickens, Cooperation and a Pro-social World”
By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification
On this episode, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson joins Nate to unpack how evolution can be used to explain and understand modern human behavior, particularly with respect to cooperation and pro-social behavior.
Fusion Energy: A Different Take
By Gary Gardner, Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy
Indeed, one thing seems indisputable: Unleashing fusion in an unbounded, growth-driven economy would be a wholesale disaster.
Sustainability can (and must) be beautiful
By Sandra Lubarsky, Resilience.org
To fulfill the vision that sets the practice of sustainability in motion—the vision of life coordinating with life in ways that ensure the flourishing of life—ethics and aesthetics must be reintegrated.
Are we seeing the collapse of the dollar-dominated global economy?
By James Meadway, Open Democracy
The near future is one of grave uncertainty and instability as the new global monetary regime takes shape.
Why gas stoves matter to the climate – and the gas industry: Keeping them means homes will use gas for heating too
By Daniel Cohan, The Conversation
As I see it, if “cooking with gas” keeps us tethering new homes to natural gas grids for decades to come, our health, climate and wallets will pay the price.
What determines the success of movements today?
By Cathy Rogers, Waging Non-Violence
Building on the recommendations of other movement strategists, new research from the Social Change Lab offers key insights into the factors that lead to protest wins.