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.
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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.
An Earth Activist Talks to the Trees
The talking trees are whispering in their woody language a far deeper radical defense of Mother Earth.
Joan Diamond: “From Kool-aid to Lemonade”
Diamond helps us imagine the future in an uncertain time. How can we create robust strategies to help us plan? How can we avoid thinking only of worst-case scenarios?
Braiding Sweetgrass: Review
If humanity is to deflect from the current disastrous path, we need a change of consciousness. Reading a book like Braiding Sweetgrass can illuminate the alternate path. I recommend it without reservation.
Protecting Nature’s Threatened Biodiversity – A MAHB Dialogue with Paula Ehrlich, CEO E.O. Wilson Foundation
Biodiversity is all the life around us, all the variation of life found on Earth. It’s the species that make up the web of life of which we are a part. Biodiversity matters because each and every species matters.
Climate activists across the Global South and North unite to stop the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline
On last month’s annual celebration known as Africa Day, activists in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and elsewhere held demonstrations targeting French oil giant TotalEnergies’ involvement in African fossil fuel extraction projects.
‘Soil Isn’t Forever’: Why Biodiversity Also Needs Protection Below the Ground
We need people to notice and appreciate the role healthy soil plays in our lives and why it’s so vital we protect it.
When More is Not Enough
Today, Peter and I discuss how dopamine, evolution, and modern culture push many of us toward a lifestyle of excess and overconsumption.
Anthropogenic Man: a documentary on the human predicament
I have organized an event each year for our community around Earth Day for the last ten years. This year I was able to do a live event with an all-star lineup, so I decided to dress it up and make it into a documentary so it could hopefully be more alluring to people new to this line of thought.
Reconceptualising boundaries
In this short intervention, we bring a critical social science perspective to the Planetary Boundaries framework through the notion of societal boundaries and aim to provide a more nuanced understanding of the social nature of thresholds, one that it has the potential to offer guidelines for a just, social-ecological transformation.
Global Public Law and Climate Change: Evolve or Die
In essence, GPL, in the first instance, is based upon the fundamental necessity for an international legal order that ensures the self-preservation of nations and nature in the Anthropocene.
