A Bigger Tent Delivers Stronger Wins for Climate: The Lesson From Illinois
The state’s recently passed Climate and Equitable Jobs Act offers a model for other states to build coalitions to help communities and the planet.
Act: Inspiration featured
Wanted for planetary health: a degrowth transformation rooted in caring commoning practices
In caring commons, autonomy and self-reliance are approached collectively. Human health is understood holistically, with a focus on promoting community solidarity in caring endeavors.
The pandemic armchair philosophy blog: The long game, a creation story for the pandemic weary
We are each and all of us playing the music of the spheres in the Big Bang Orchestra, which doubles as our hearth and home.
Letter From The Farm | A Swiss Shepherdess In Bohemia
It’s a source of satisfaction to Jacqueline that she and her family are very much present in the fields around the village where they live.
One reason she wanted to become a farmer was to see animals in the pastures.
Individuals and social pressure: how to change the world
I recently had an extraordinary and rare experience, as an academic, activist and citizen: I participated in a victorious movement.
Radical Realism
How will the radical regeneration of our key civilizational institutions happen? Not by delegating it to Big Money, Big Tech, or Big Gov. If it’s going to work, it will be sparked by a movement that works from EVERYWHERE
Regenerative Futures: Redesigning the human impact on Earth
I firmly believe that we are not destined to be a destructive species. I know we have the potential of healing the Earth and her people by co-creating diverse regenerative cultures everywhere.
Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022 | New Dawn For Solidarity
After three action-packed days, the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022 ended on a positive note, forging hope from solidarity.
Some thoughts on strategy, and climate change, and feeling like you’re not trying your hardest…
“What can I do?”, “How hard should I try?”, “Why aren’t we all on the streets, night after night, fighting for change?”… Perhaps, all we can say at the end of it all is that asking these questions is an important part of the process. A sign that you’re still fighting, still human. You have not given up.
Blah, blah, blah, yay: Another epic fail for the COP, but seeds of growth for our movements
The winners of COP 26 were the indefatigable voices of civil society, whose actions were loud and clear: on the final Friday, many, many organizations walked out of the COP in protest, reminded me of the walkout I witnessed and took part in at COP 19 in Warsaw in 2013.
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth
Ending the extraction of fossil fuels from the Earth while achieving material sufficiency, equity and justice would move us a long way toward the more livable future that the people who gathered outside COP26 — along with billions of others around the world — are demanding and are standing ready to create.
Campaign to shut down New England’s last coal plant is doing ‘what must be done’ for the planet
“This is what the state, this is what the fossil fuel industry will do to protect this big, outdated, ancient asset — instead of protecting us, the people, and taking action against the climate crisis.”
Without missing a beat, Shapiro-Weiss boldly stated, “This is why we’re doing this.”
