An Activist’s Guide to Reclaiming, Restoring, and Redirecting Your Attention: Part 2
Environmental psychology offers practices we can build into our daily lives that manage and restore a precious mental resource we all have: ‘directed attention’.
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The nitrogen fertilizer monkey trap
Nitrogen fertilizers are like so many other things our modern industrial civilization requires, absolutely necessary to maintain our current trajectory of continuous growth and increasingly threatening to a sustainable future.
Why the climate justice movement should put decoloniality at its core
A true climate justice agenda will need to be about demolishing the imperial arrangements enshrined in the global economy that are today leading to an ecological abyss.
Farm Stops: A New Way to Enhance Local and Regional Food Systems
A Farm Stop is a mission-driven entity that supports small-scale farmers by sourcing agricultural products from nearby producers, and by operating on consignment.
Beyond Self-Help and Esotericism: Freedom as Political Action
All the modern short-cuts (such as self-help, esotericism etc.) are tools that can give us an illusion of being free in an unfree world. Actual freedom is nothing short of genuinely democratic action.
An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Excerpt
All organisms adapt to, and are shaped by, their places. There is no reason that humans should be exempt from that observation.
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.
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.
