Cuba prepares for disaster
The book Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba: Adaptation and Management (2021) traced the highly successful source of the island nation’s efforts to the way it put human welfare above property.
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Beverly Free Box helps neighbors build community and fight waste
Free Box participants believe it is better to put things no longer used in one household into the hands of others who need them, rather than allow them to go into landfills.
World War III is here, but it’s not what we expected
The battlefield for this war is worldwide; it’s just that it is primarily an economic battlefield. When Russia attacked Ukraine, the other great powers did not send soldiers and tanks. Instead, they orchestrated one of the most comprehensive economic warfare schemes ever devised
Native American Storytelling, One Pint at a Time
Crisp and other Native brewers are successfully making space for themselves, their voices, and their stories in today’s craft beer movement through lagers, sours, porters, and ales—to beer drinkers’ delight. These brewers are upholding their peoples’ pasts while looking to the future, glasses raised.
‘Repair is the reimagination of power’: Healing from the injustices of colonialism
‘Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice’, a new book by Raj Patel and Rupa Marya, is a tour of the human body that reveals the links between our biology and political and economic injustices such as racism, poverty and colonialism.
A ‘Real’ Green New Deal? Policies for a Post-Growth Economy (Part III of Ecological Civilisation)
What would a ‘real’ Green New Deal involve? In this presentation Samuel Alexander argues that it would require policies to create a post-growth economy.
The UK’s inaction is to blame for the spiralling energy crisis – not Russia
Europe finds itself in a bind; horrified by Russia’s action in Ukraine, yet, at least in part, funding Moscow’s war chest through the billions spent on Russian gas imports.
Prosperous Transitions and Global Warnings: Lebanon’s Economic Collapse
Lebanon’s recession shows outlines that could heal the metabolic rift between economy and ecology. It calls for new ways of living, manufacturing, growing food, transportation, and every other aspect of our existence. This is the prosperous way forward.
Is post-capitalism post-money?
Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy urges twenty-first century social and environmental movements to seriously consider a non-monetary vision and strategies to achieve socio-political and economic equality and ecological sustainability.
Degrowth is Not Recession. Nor is it Austerity.
If we are honest, it’s not the term “degrowth” that people don’t like, it’s what it means: we must reduce our material footprint so that we are no longer living as though we have two, three, four or five planet earths.
Ukraine conflict may portend end to current world trading system
The worldwide trading system may very well not survive the sanctions placed on Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine.
Thoreau’s Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy at Walden Pond (Part II of Ecological Civilisation)
This presentation gives an overview of Henry David Thoreau’s philosophy of sufficiency, which he developed and practised during his famous simple living experiment at Walden Pond (1845-47). Dr Alexander uses Thoreau’s life story to explore the question: How much is enough?
