An Activist’s Guide to Reclaiming, Restoring, and Redirecting Your Attention: Part 2
Environmental psychology offers practices we can build into our daily lives that manage and restore a precious mental resource we all have: ‘directed attention’.
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Why the climate justice movement should put decoloniality at its core
A true climate justice agenda will need to be about demolishing the imperial arrangements enshrined in the global economy that are today leading to an ecological abyss.
Farm Stops: A New Way to Enhance Local and Regional Food Systems
A Farm Stop is a mission-driven entity that supports small-scale farmers by sourcing agricultural products from nearby producers, and by operating on consignment.
Beyond Self-Help and Esotericism: Freedom as Political Action
All the modern short-cuts (such as self-help, esotericism etc.) are tools that can give us an illusion of being free in an unfree world. Actual freedom is nothing short of genuinely democratic action.
How communities across the globe are responding to heatwaves
In the face of these stark realities, what can individual communities do to combat the ongoing climate crises? Turns out, quite a lot.
The Social Economy as a Pathway to Decolonization
My vision is to shift that balance and gain back power by saying: “I am who I am, this is what I know how to do. This is my knowledge from my tradition, and I’m going to own it and free myself from this global market.”
Book Review: Helping Water Find Its Own Level
Gies takes readers on a global journey, highlighting researchers and engineers who “share an openness to moving from a control mindset to one of respect,” and seek to support what she calls a “Slow Water” movement.
Political polarization is pushing evangelicals to a historic breaking point
But the current juncture has created a moment loaded with potential, in which the unprecedented alignment of evangelicalism with the Republican right is being shaken — at least at the margins — and new possibilities are emerging.
The Grassroots Groups Shifting Ground on Land Justice
No food justice or environmental justice without social justice means nature, land and sustainable, healthy food systems must be accessible to all, regardless of heritage, background or neighbourhood.
Micro utopias for an inclusive future
The Atlas of Utopias is an invigorating breath of fresh air in a world that has lost its great utopia. And it is tangible proof that “real utopias” are underway.
An Earth Activist Talks to the Trees
The talking trees are whispering in their woody language a far deeper radical defense of Mother Earth.
Reclaiming Your Attention is Key to Cultivating Resilience and Avoiding Burnout: Part 1
The concept of ‘directed attention’ from environmental psychology offers an approach to self-care that’s available to anyone.
