The Privatization of Law, Religion and Culture
Today’s state has turned over profit-seeking activity to the private sector. It runs its operations at a loss, and finances them by levying taxes on the private-sector surplus.
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Connecting the dots between climate destruction and its financial backers
As Vanguard S.O.S. takes action in new places this fall, campaigners will be applying lessons learned and learning new ones in the process. It’s all in service of winning the changes that bring us ever closer to having clean air to breathe, clean water to drink and a safe climate in which to thrive.
Service Providers in the Trophic Theory of Money
For now, the bottom line is that the TTOM will continue to serve as a durable reminder of the primacy of agricultural and extractive activity in economic production. It belies the notion of decoupling GDP from energy and material use.
A response to Savin and van den Bergh: Ceci n’est pas degrowth
This paper is closer to a coffee machine conflict than to genuine science. Whatever – most probably ego-driven – issues the authors have with their colleagues, I suggest talking to them might be a better solution than wasting precious research and reading time in a male-as-usual who’s-got-the-biggest-science competition.
A Personal Meditation on Growing Old
Maybe it’s time to proudly accept not my retirement, but my future jubilation. But not quite yet. We still have an election to win.
Ancient settlements show that commoning is ‘natural’ for humans, not selfishness and competition
Humans have been and are still very resourceful and imaginative when it comes to working out how to live together in peace, democracy and abundance. I believe that commons ideas can deliver those things.
Jeffrey Sachs: “U.S. Full Spectrum Dominance: Nuclear Risks and The End of Empire”
In this episode, Nate is joined by Professor Jeffrey Sachs to discuss the escalating tensions between the United States and other world powers – and whether there are possible avenues towards a more peaceful world order.
“Post Growth”—Why and How?
We want positive growth, which first requires an end to global warming and attention to other on-coming ecological crises.
Money is a Social Agreement—Let’s Start Treating It That Way
Only when we leave cartoonish barter villages to the world of fiction and embrace money as a social agreement will we truly make money work for us.
Ironic and Tragic: Technological Fundamentalism and Our Fear of Limits
It is ironic that technological fundamentalists believe we can do anything we set our minds to, except limit the voraciousness of the human enterprise. It will be tragic if this fundamentalism continues to determine our course and the scariest dystopian scenarios become our future.
Cascadia and the Global Resurgence of Bioregional Activism
Instead of seeing everything through the lens of the political economy and civilization, as if they were somehow divorced from earthly systems, bioregionalism proposes that ecological systems be treated as the foundational substrate for everything.
A Tale of Two Yarn-Makers Reviving the Local Mill
The Spinsters hope to both beautify the downtown core and bring wool manufacturing back to Bellingham. They’re not the only ones looking forward to the transformation. Downtown Bellingham Partnership’s Jenny Hagemann says Spincycle’s move is “an exciting chapter” in the neighbourhood’s “continued revitalization.”
