Open Source Seeds and Commoning Mushrooms: The Iriaiken Philosophy
The appropriation of seeds raises a profound challenge to farmers and, really, everyone, because we all have to eat.
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The economic legacy of the Holocene
We should face reality: The other-than-human-world now has become almost entirely eclipsed by an unassailable “superorganism”—us, the human species—that continues to expand in evermore destructive fashion.
What does “wild and pristine” really mean?
Governments around the world, in the name of conservation, continue to displace large numbers of Indigenous peoples from their traditional territories in the name of a more “enlightened” vision for the land.
Unplugged: Abandoned oil and gas wells leave the ocean floor spewing methane
The Gulf of Mexico is littered with tens of thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells, and toothless regulation leaves climate warming gas emissions unchecked.
2021: The Year of the Post-COVID Consumer Orgy?
2020 was a year lived in fear—fear of the surprise arrival of a novel coronavirus, of not understanding it, of getting it, of watching a loved one get it—never being sure if they’d survive.
Podcast from the Prarie: Methodism in my madness
In this episode of “Podcast from the Prairie,” Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen discuss the role of religion, both in Jackson’s life and in our human future.
Climate Policy in the Biden Era: A House Divided
The momentum of the 2018 Congressional midterm elections in which the Democrats gained 42 seats and regained their majority status in the House of Representatives lost steam in 2020.
Beyond “Checking the Box”
Green 2.0 was launched in 2014 as a working group of thought leaders at the intersection of environment and race. We commissioned a report that found that the mainstream environmental movement had failed to diversify their staff despite decades of promises to do so.
A victory for Indigenous environmental activism in Ecuador
To be successful, páramo protection will need to be led by the Indigenous and campesino communities who share the richest histories and everyday entanglements with these unique lands.
In the northern Great Plains, a search for ways to protect drinking water from fossil fuel industry pollution
North Dakota’s water supplies are at risk from contaminants from fracking wastewater, but residents are fighting back
The sheep sacrifice
With a no deal Brexit looming and the Government’s farm subsidy regimen shifting towards payments only for delivering ‘public goods’, it looks like hard times may lie ahead for many commercial farmers in the UK, none more so than for upland livestock farmers.
Shifting baselines and coping with planetary change
It is not easy today to take an interest in the future of the planet, and especially in human civilisation, without becoming bewildered.
