How ancient ice-age valleys could hold the key to global ice-sheet loss
Advances in satellite technology over recent decades have allowed scientists to chart the melting of the Earth’s ice sheets in remarkable detail.
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Impact Investing in Native Communities: Answer or Assimilation?
Growth in Native communities is relationship-based, not economy-based, and so Native CFDIs are putting much effort into building localized decision-making that provides not only financial support, but also builds trust.
How Does Global Energy Consumption scale with GDP and Mass? A Biophysical Perspective
In summary, the global economy and biology have very parallel growth patterns relating energy consumption to size.
Real Climate Action’s Not at COP-27, but It Is in a Thousand Rebellious Communities
In the peril-filled decade ahead, local, collective struggles by people of all ages—as exemplified by Extinction Rebellion, PODER, and Start:Empowerment—will be essential to advancing multiracial, pluralistic democracy and climate justice nationwide.
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 4
Let’s talk about the big question of the year: “How much do I grow to feed my family for the year?”
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 87 Phoebe Barnard
Phoebe Barnard is an environmental and societal futures analyst, sustainability strategist, global change ecologist, biodiversity conservation biologist, climate risk and resilience specialist, policy wonk, and film co-producer. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Surviving Collapse Through Social Transformation and Regeneration
When we begin to prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable among us is when we will see the most healing—the type of mitigation we need for our changing climate.
Dutch dilemma: What is Europe willing to do for more natural gas?
The Netherlands is close to closing one of the world’s largest natural gas fields even as Europe faces acute energy shortages. Will the country be able to resist calls for continuing production that will mean sacrificing the homes and businesses of Dutch citizens?
Degrowth, Decolonization and Modern Monetary Theory
Besides strengthening the call for degrowth in the global North, MMT can serve as a powerful tool to achieve full decolonization of the global South.
Is the Energy Transition Taking Off—or Hitting a Wall?
With the Inflation Reduction Act, the federal government is illogically encouraging the increasing use of fossil fuels—in order to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.
Living bioregionally, now
Already it is starting to make economic as well as social sense to produce more food and other essentials locally, and exchange them outside existing industrial consumption systems. In other words, to live bioregionally now!
Three myths about economic decarbonization
We have the technology, the resources, the imagination and the political measures to achieve this goal, but will it be possible with our business as usual painted green?
