Dammed But Not Doomed
As dams come down on the Skutik River, the once-demonized alewife—a fish beloved by the Passamaquoddy—gets a second chance at life.
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How to ‘decouple’ emissions from economic growth? These economists say you can’t.
The stakes of this academic debate are high: If decoupling is a mirage, then addressing the climate crisis may require letting go of the pursuit of economic growth altogether and instead embracing a radically different vision of a thriving society
Let’s Make a Deal!
Thus, maybe the choice is not a false one after all. If we value the animals above our devices and conveniences, than maybe we ought to act like it—because it is far from obvious that we can have our cake and eat it, too. What fool would even risk it?
Welcoming Relatives Home: The Return of the Lynx
On the Colville reservation, tribal members are restoring wildlife populations—and with them, abundance, resilience, and reciprocity.
Utilities Are Buying Pricier ‘Responsible Gas.’ But for What Climate Benefit?
Ratepayers are increasingly on the hook to pay the extra costs for “certified gas” promising low-pollution but that critics warn is rife with problems.
Will Ruddick on “Commitment Pooling” to Build Economic Commons
A key lesson from the projects is that a community can control its means of exchange to advance its own interests without relying on banks, the mainstream economy, or the national currency.
History’s crisis detectives: How we’re using maths and data to reveal why societies collapse – and clues about the future
Learning from history means that we have the ability to do something different. We can relieve the pressures that are creating violence and making society more fragile.
To Change the Behavior, Change the Environment: Lessons From the Blue Zones
After spending time and learning from elders in the Blue Zones, Buettner and his team identified nine common denominators that contribute to longer and happier lives, which fall into four key themes: related to natural movement, wise eating, connection, and outlook.
Farming on Screen
There are many reasons why we might expect that agri-industrial AI will lead to more biodiversity loss, more food insecurity, more socio-economic inequality, more climate vulnerability. To the extent that AI in agriculture bears fruit, many of these fruits are likely to be bitter.
7 Key Interventions for the Future
In this Frankly, Nate shares insights on his personal/organizational priorities as a lead up to outlining 7 global interventions that he sees as being most impactful in preparing for a resource constrained future.
Future-Proof Food Systems in Europe – A Call for Action
The last thing society needs to address systemic failures of the food system is rollback in commitments to socio-ecological transition, or a turn towards politics built on exclusion and oppression, which seems to be what is offered following farmers’ protests.
Q&A: What does Biden’s LNG ‘pause’ mean for global emissions?
In a surprise move, US president Joe Biden has announced a “temporary pause” on liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal expansion.
