The politics of Britain’s ‘mini-budget’ crisis
The current economic and political crisis in the UK is largely self-inflicted, which raises the question of ‘why?’, but can also be thought of as representing the endgame of a long political wave.
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Review | Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations
Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a powerful, multidimensional work of extraordinary vision and reach whose overarching theme of humans sharing encounters with our other-than-human relations presaged a project out of the ordinary.
The Power Podcast: Episode 3 Fire, Tools, and Language
As people learned to wield fire, deploy an array of tools, and coordinate actions through increasingly descriptive language, they became more capable of concentrating power.
Degrowth: What sorcery is this?
Degrowth is about redefining how things work in the current unsustainable system, focusing on the values of cooperation and sharing, as well as social and environmental justice.
A dazzlingly precious gift from the future
The Vauban, a district of Freiburg which is home to about 3000 people, is one of the most ambitious and best-known car-free neighbourhoods in Europe.
Green Road of Ecovillages, Six Months into War
The project showed its resilience in conditions of the hard war times and will be able to share this knowledge after the victory.
Heat: A Common Concern?
I’ve spent probably way too much time thinking about burning things. And the conclusion I’ve reached is that we need more wood.
Land Change, Failures of Omission, and the Renaturing of Climate
Land change is a scientific term you’re not likely to hear in mainstream climate conversation, which is a shame, because what it refers to, the climatic effects of human damage to living landscapes, is a big part of the climate crisis.
The Politics of Overconsumption and Getting the Scale Right
No matter how difficult the transition may be, in the not too distant future we will have to live in far smaller and more flexible social organizations than today’s nation-states and cities.
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 1
Can I convince you how miraculously cool seeds are? They are a tiny packet of genetic information, for nothing more than some warmth, light (usually), and some water, will unfurl in time and produce a plant that will net you so much food in volume, that your return on investment would be astronomical.
No need to reinvent the wheel: The settlement house as a time-tested model for community resilience
Communities can build resilience to climate change within the heart of their neighborhoods through incorporating the settlement house model within climate action plans.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 86 Kinari Webb
Kinari Webb, MD, is the founder of Health In Harmony, an international nonprofit dedicated to reversing global heating, understanding that rainforests are essential for the survival of humanity, and a cofounder of Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI). She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
