How to End Childhood Poverty
As kids head back to school and the general election nears, there’s a question on the minds of many families: How will the election outcome affect kids and their education?
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Luxembourg | A Good Gardener is a Teacher and Politician
A master gardener and co-founder of the SEED association for the preservation and use of the region’s traditional seed varieties, Frank Adams has long been involved in the legislative battle waged by seed savers to gain recognition for the necessity and specific nature of their work.
Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation for Sustainable Solutions
To ensure a comprehensive climate response, both mitigation and adaptation strategies are essential. Mitigation helps prevent further damage, while adaptation prepares communities to cope with changes that are already occurring or are inevitable. Together, they can help build a sustainable and resilient future.
“New ERA” to leverage $29 Billion to propel a Just Transition for rural communities
On September 5, 2024, Shareable and our partners at RPC were thrilled to announce that the first round of New ERA projects has been unveiled, marking a significant step forward with a total investment of $29 billion—$7.3 billion of which comes directly from federal support for Rural Electric Cooperatives (RECs).
How climate change affects Indigenous communities in the Amazon
The project is documenting Indigenous beliefs, knowledge and practices regarding their health and the environment to improve policies and inform best practices for adaptation to climate change. The information will also be used to collaborate with organizations and institutions working on climate change and health.
The Privatization of Law, Religion and Culture
Today’s state has turned over profit-seeking activity to the private sector. It runs its operations at a loss, and finances them by levying taxes on the private-sector surplus.
Harvest Home
Even if this isn’t the end of the harvest or the end of the year, it is the end of the season of growth. It is just on the cusp of the time of contraction and repose, the time of death for many short-lived beings. So this is a natural time to think on the cycles of life.
Connecting the dots between climate destruction and its financial backers
As Vanguard S.O.S. takes action in new places this fall, campaigners will be applying lessons learned and learning new ones in the process. It’s all in service of winning the changes that bring us ever closer to having clean air to breathe, clean water to drink and a safe climate in which to thrive.
What matters?
For the material footprint of industrial production and our corresponding consumption, a change of energy source itself makes in most cases little difference.
Torrey pines: Mistakes and progress [Western USA]
One thing I have learned for certain, though, is that hubris is the main threat to the successful practice of ecosystem restoration and rewilding. We need to be open to the need for refinement.
Taking stock
But for sure we’ve got to do something different to avert the present suicidal and ecocidal course of our food system. I’ve made the case in my two recent books for agrarian localism as the best something different option.
Just the clash of opinions or different facts? Facing the epistemological divide
Differing opinions are not the primary thing dividing us.