“The Limits to Growth” after 50 years: More relevant than ever
“The Limits to Growth” was a study of the future of the global economy. Its basic message was that growth could not continue to go on forever on a finite planet.
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France | Growing Vegetables, Seeding Values – Part 2
People need to be educated to get involved: that they are supporting small systems that are not mechanised, that are not economically fragile. There’s nothing quaint about coming to help out on the farm.
Dr. Stephan Harding on Gaia Alchemy and the Animate Earth
If Earth is indeed Gaia, and we humans are a living part of Gaia, then maybe the living biosphere has something to say to us.
The supply chain crisis: Transitory or systemic?
Five decades should have been enough for us to find the path to prosperity without growth. Apparently, we didn’t take the lesson to heart.
Give Back Stolen Land
Viewed from the perspective of history, Treuer notes laceratingly, America’s national parks are a crime scene.
Democracy Rising 20: Deliberative Dialogue as Service Learning
Through deliberative pedagogy, students are prepared to participate in solving problems important to them and their communities.
Climate change, energy, and an unstable grid: The mainstream belatedly gets the connections
I enter summer with a sense of foreboding, not only about a simmering war in Ukraine, but also the stability of basic energy infrastructure and our ability to function if the lights, computers, and the water, sewer and gasoline pumps go out for an extended period.
Supporting Indigenous Practices
Supporting indigenous Territorialities goes beyond supporting biodiversity conservation; it is also an invitation to organize and reinscribe communal systems that have been erased and dismantled all over the world by the increasing expansion of the capitalist economy and the conservation paradigm.
Ukraine | the Green Road of Ecovillages – Communities that Protect
The Green Road has seen the global and the local Ukrainian ecovillage and permaculture communities involved in ongoing emergency support for people fleeing the war.
Movements are vying for political power — is ‘co-governance’ the answer?
Those promoting co-governance describe it as a new relationship between social movements and the candidates they help win office — a partnership in which activists and elected officials work to maintain a long-term relationship, closely coordinate strategy and advance grassroots priorities.
The struggle for what’s essential
Whether communities are fighting to address mining harms or standing in the way of these unwanted projects, their struggles are potent examples of the sort of reimagining and digging in for fundamental change that Arundhati Roy urged at the start of this pandemic.
A response to Adam Lee: Is degrowth wrong?
I miss critiques of degrowth. A few years back, a single online search for the term would unleash a stream of fury. But no more. In fact, I cannot remember the last time I stumbled upon a well-argued critique. Why degrowth is wrong by Adam Lee is definitely not one of them – not even close…
