An Indigenous Perspective on Reconnecting With the Land
We need to use storytelling to show the relationship we humans have with the land—the relationship we need to nourish for our survival.
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Building a New Order of Things
In my mind what must undergird any energy transition is the building of a new way of being that is made possible by a much lower-consumption world coupled with living more communally.
No Red Wave, but Plenty of Red Flags
Much remains to be done if we’re to manage a leap toward real democracy—nevertheless, we’ve kept alive our prospects for achieving an ecologically livable future while fending off a host of power grabs by would-be autocrats.
Putting Indigenous knowledge into practice for climate change: the Tribal Adaptation Menu
This article describes a tool called the Tribal Adaptation Menu that provides a set of concrete, practical strategies, approaches and tactics for how to incorporate indigenous thinking into planning, policy, research and interventions for researchers, policy-makers and practitioners.
Flood Landscapes Revisited October 2022
That there is considerable overlap between permaculture responses to flood and fire resilient design reflects a deep listening to country, holistic and uncorrupted science and old fashioned common sense.
Getting out of the food-energy-climate crisis
Finding a way out of this “polycrisis” requires a deep transformation in how energy and food are produced and distributed, with actions that challenge corporate control head on.
Wrong Problem, Wrong Message, Wrong Tree
Sustainability means living as nature lives. It means no depletion of the elements of the ecosystem humans have been treating as economic resources, and no waste. What we pursue is up that tree.
Jon Erickson: “Illusions, Power and the Political Economy”
How can we reshape the narrative and shift the paradigm towards different economic systems that promote human and ecological well-being over material consumption?
Someday the climate fight will be dull–and that’s how we’ll know we’re winning
This fall’s elections are more important than anything that’s happening here at Sharm el Sheikh, I think—the one in Brazil last month, and the ones across America last week, and the one that could come in Georgia early next month.
From Pseudo-rationalism to Rationality as a quality of thought
The project of direct democracy, of which reason and rational deliberation are an inseparable part, has to be made appealing and desirable for a growing amount of people.
Redwashing consumerism will not save the planet
Overall the plan of action should be the same: empowering localized economies and grassroots organizations as a way to mitigate resource overuse and move toward an ecological civilization. Any model that begins from the proposition that consumption patterns can remain unchanged is a nonstarter.
The Indigenous Food Cafés Transforming Local Cuisine
The modern food system has a huge carbon footprint. These Indian cafés want to change that.
