How communities across the globe are responding to heatwaves
In the face of these stark realities, what can individual communities do to combat the ongoing climate crises? Turns out, quite a lot.
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Making waves: Electric ships are sailing ahead
While the Yara Birkeland is smaller than some of the cargo ships entering circulation today, which are still fuelled by heavy oil and diesel, the growth in fully electric ships is picking up pace.
The Social Economy as a Pathway to Decolonization
My vision is to shift that balance and gain back power by saying: “I am who I am, this is what I know how to do. This is my knowledge from my tradition, and I’m going to own it and free myself from this global market.”
Summer Reading 2022: Book Reviews
Are you looking for a summer read? We share some of our favourite recent food and farming books.
Book Review: Helping Water Find Its Own Level
Gies takes readers on a global journey, highlighting researchers and engineers who “share an openness to moving from a control mindset to one of respect,” and seek to support what she calls a “Slow Water” movement.
Political polarization is pushing evangelicals to a historic breaking point
But the current juncture has created a moment loaded with potential, in which the unprecedented alignment of evangelicalism with the Republican right is being shaken — at least at the margins — and new possibilities are emerging.
Left in the dark: The families struggling to survive fuel poverty
Steve and I had a long conversation about fuel poverty, but it is this image of him, his partner, daughter and granddaughter – three generations of one family – sitting at home with all the lights off that sticks with me.
The Grassroots Groups Shifting Ground on Land Justice
No food justice or environmental justice without social justice means nature, land and sustainable, healthy food systems must be accessible to all, regardless of heritage, background or neighbourhood.
Micro utopias for an inclusive future
The Atlas of Utopias is an invigorating breath of fresh air in a world that has lost its great utopia. And it is tangible proof that “real utopias” are underway.
Electric Shock! Technological Complexity and the Modern Lifestyle
A certain level of technology certainly improves human lifestyle; but beyond a certain point technology creates a ‘trap’ – where growing complexity creates a higher risk to our well-being should those systems suddenly fail.
Could This Ancient Farming Technique Be a Climate Solution?
Terracing has been used for centuries to help prevent fire, moderate temperatures, and make farming possible even when water is scarce.
An Earth Activist Talks to the Trees
The talking trees are whispering in their woody language a far deeper radical defense of Mother Earth.
