Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In this article, Carbon Brief sets out how and why UK household energy bills are due to reach historically unprecedented levels this winter, shows how the gas-fuelled increase in bills will push household energy costs towards £200bn and looks at the options to manage the crisis.
Stories about these forests and villages can help connect people to these old-growth systems and their irreplaceable worth and inspire people to continue to work to protect them.
Knowledge may not be power, but should the future ‘become what it must’, the process of building power will have been one of building knowledge.
A group of world-renowned economists and social scientists published an open letter Wednesday hailing Chile’s draft constitution as a transformative document…
This post in the series covers oil production in the Americas.
Anyway, that’s the ground where I stand: convinced of the need for ruralization and an orderly turn to agrarian localism so that it doesn’t happen by default in a disorderly way…
Why can’t we quit fossil fuels tomorrow, and what implications does that have for our way of life given that we are already in a climate emergency?
Though fictional, the book raises a very real question: Can the human capacity to imagine alternate climate futures actually help generate new, more hopeful realities?
The more I listened to participants, though, the more I realized perhaps most accurate word is “embrace”, for is it really possible to manage this polycrisis?
Yes, our society is better off with the IRA having passed than we would be without its passage. But if we don’t find a way to snuff out fossil fuels, directly, on a crash schedule, the climate emergency will only intensify.
“Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.”-Joanna Macy
The true ‘cost of living’ takes on new meaning when what is needed may or may not be available to buy at any cost.
