We Are The Economy
Once we see that we are the economy, we realize we can change it — and when we change it, we change the world.
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Climate Deniers and the Language of Climate Obstruction
Understanding how opponents of climate action employ these discourses of delay is essential to recognizing climate disinformation and misinformation, Arena said, and ultimately to disrupting it.
Humanity in the patchwork of life
This story is on borrowed time. And it’s just a part of a story, a piece of human and living patchwork. Maybe you can borrow it, and make it part of your story too?
Building Black Wealth: Understanding the Limits of Black Capitalism
Can Black liberation be achieved through individual successes within capitalism — through Black capitalism — as Booker T. Washington suggested? Or can true liberation for Black people in the United States only emerge through a collective struggle against racial capitalism?
Denmark | Re-Scaling the Rural
Therefore, in addressing contemporary dilemmas, we must understand that academia, rural sociologists, architects, policymakers – and anyone who enjoys the privilege of speaking on behalf of ‘others’ – should make every effort to involve those who really struggle on the ground: the artists, the small-scale farmers, the young students, and the minorities who live precariously in rural territories.
Wixárika community takes back financial autonomy in historic vote
After four years of struggle, the Wixárika community of San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán in Mezquitic, Jalisco, will directly receive federal resources to manage amongst themselves without the intervention of local officials or political parties.
Jason Bradford: “A Hybrid Path to the Future of Farming”
On this episode, Jason Bradford, who is an author, activist, farmer, and teacher, talks about the energy intensity of our modern industrial agriculture system.
Learning, not diamond-class carbon markets, is the bridge to landscape scale regeneration
Changing systems is never hands off: you have to become part of the system. Changing systems has the potential to change everything and everyone implicated in the system.
Set It Back: Moving Levees to Benefit Rivers, Wildlife and Communities
Removing dams is one thing, but thousands of levees also restrict rivers in the United States — and they’re not working as intended.
Ten Little Euphemisms: What Do They Portend for Climate Policy?
Like an environmental impact study, a federal rulemaking can take several years to complete. Legal challenges can extend the overall process by years.
Growing a Revolution: Excerpt
The promise of conservation agriculture to bring life back to the land and support biodiversity both above and belowground should appeal to environmentalists and farmers alike. For like it or not, a large part of nature will be what lives on farms, because we now use more than a third of the world’s ice-free land area for growing crops and raising animals.
Seed to Wealth
The Rural Watch Africa Initiative (RUWAI) Seed To Wealth program is helping rural farmers in Nigeria to achieve sustainable income for livelihoods.
