The case for a smaller future
Today Schumacher’s ideas are more relevant than ever. We look towards a future of practical action, grassroots organisation, and locally driven solutions.
Environment featured
Review: The Girls’ Guide To Off Grid Living by Amanda Kovattana
Amanda Kovattana is a fascinating woman, someone who has lived a truly extraordinary life by consistently choosing to live it on her own terms.
Nick Haddad: “Insects – A Silent Extinction”
Professor Nick Haddad is co-lead of the Long Term Ecological Research site at Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State University. He leads decades-long, landscape-scale experiments that bring scientific principles to conservation actions.
Patrick Brown’s Stunt Takes Climate Change Denial to a New Plateau
Patrick Brown and the Breakthrough Institute are underwritten by oil money, meat interests and nuclear industry cash. Brown labors, ultimately, on behalf of the cascading uncertainty rule – the corporate conspiracy to elicit popular trust.
Playing Matchmaker for Corals
Sexual or larval propagation, also called coral seeding, involves collecting spawn in the wild, fusing the eggs and sperm in a container, growing larvae in protected settings, and dispersing them back onto the reef.
When climate change hits home
If we can’t even get climate scientists to choose entirely honest words for describing the situation, there is no hope of any meaningful action.
Sian Sutherland: “Innovating the Business of Plastics”
Sian Sutherland is Co-founder of A Plastic Planet, one of the most recognised and respected organizations tackling the plastic crisis.
The view from Washington this week
The drama in Washington is all about the looming end of the federal fiscal year. All eyes are focused on House Speaker McCarthy and whether he can deliver enough votes to keep the government open come October 1st.
I Don’t Want to be a Well-Adjusted Corpse
If we truly are careening toward existential disaster, I don’t want to be “well” with that. I want to go out celebrating and preserving everything that makes this life worth living.
The Earth System has passed six of nine planetary boundaries
The Planetary Boundaries framework, first published in 2009, has been fully updated and mapped for the first time. The results show that six of the nine global environmental boundaries have definitely been passed, and one, ocean acidification, is very close to its boundary.
How to build the future in place: Taking the first steps
The prescription for despair is collective action where it is possible to act most fruitfully. Any journey starts from where we live. It starts by beginning to build the future in place.
A Future Generation Shows Up Ahead of Schedule
When the Montana 16 filed their suit in 2020, only two of them were old enough to vote in that fall’s election. But as Judge Seeley ruled, they all had standing to challenge the fossil-fuel juggernaut in a court of law. And so far, they’re winning.
