Degrowth Collective: Limits and Opportunities
The working philosophy of Degrowth Collective is of careful nimbleness, which spans from flexibility of governance to adapting to local conditions.
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The inspiring Spanish anarchist collectives: Look what we must do!
The achievements of the Spanish anarchist workers collectives in the 1930s show what miracles ordinary people can do.
Artificial Intelligence in the Material World
With the performance of individual AI-specialized computer chips now measured in TeraFLOPs, and thousands of these chips harnessed together in an AI server farm, the electricity consumption of AI is vast.
Surprise! Saudi Arabia is no longer wholly-owned gas station of the United States
It has been apparent to anyone paying attention that Saudi Arabia was and would be limiting its oil production. We got another reminder last week.
A localized alternative to ‘disaster capitalism’
What if, when the next disaster hits – whatever its cause or location – the most numerous, doable and beneficial ideas lying around were those that support the rebuilding of local economies. This is what I call “disaster localization”.
A Mexican Entrepreneur With a Painful Past Is Finding New Purpose With a Recycling Startup
Eleno Ulloa endured ridicule, rejection, drug and alcohol addiction, and two deportations from the United States. Today, he is his family’s breadwinner and, with his recycling business, a sign of hope for many in Nayarit.
Don’t Be Fooled By Biden’s Gas U-Turn
We are running out of fuel. We need an urgent plan to contract our energy needs if we are to survive the impending crash; there will be no “clean” energy until governments come clean.
The Future Is Feral—and Climate Resilient
What would our world look like if we, as humans, learn to adapt to plants instead of making plants adapt to us?
Can ‘degrowth’ solve our ecological, social & economic problems?
Economist Tim Parrique speaks with co-host Rachel Donald on this episode of the Mongabay Newscast about the economic model known as “degrowth.”
Beyond and against homogenisation: Advancing diversity through Democratic Confederalism
Although homogeneity has been advanced by a societal system that presents itself as the only one possible and a product of a determinist evolutionary process, it can still be reversed so that diversity can flourish once again.
Are you breaking cultural glass?
Last month, global bank HSBC was accused of duping the public for helping to raise £37 billion for companies investing in new oil and gas fields. It shines an urgent light on why meaningful climate action remains largely illusionary.
Mario Giampietro: “Models with Meaning – Changing Social Practices”
On this episode, Nate is joined by biophysical analyst Mario Giampietro to unpack his decades of research on a wide-lens view of the challenges facing the human system.
