Injustice for All: The Invention of Racism to Justify a Putrid Power Hierarchy (Episode 50 of Crazy Town)
When greedy power-trippers perpetrate unspeakable acts of exploitation, they often rationalize their loathsome acts after the fact.
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Can urban mining help to save the planet?
“When we talk about urban mining, we’re talking about mining what we have already made and brought into an urban context.”
What does feminism have to do with the food you eat?
On International Women’s day, March 8, 2022, we launched an animation called ‘For feminist agroecologies’ that invites you to ask yourself questions about your food, and about what food system you want to contribute to.
Organizing Across State Lines to Stop a Pipeline
In many ways, pipeline fighting is a battle between narratives—one of money versus people power—and also one of priorities—economic benefit in the short term versus generations of climate disaster.
‘My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization’ (1994)
This was one of the first books to challenge the ‘dichotomy’ of my life within technological society. It made me choose the reality I wanted to exist within – a process best described as, “a work in progress”.
What War in Ukraine means for Energy & Money | Frankly by Nate Hagens
Today I riff on longer term implications of Ukraine/Russia especially with energy and global systems.
EU Institutions – Productivity Now, Environment Maybe Later
Yet again, now is supposedly not the time to do the very things that would reduce our exposure to destructive inputs. There is a fear that this terrible war in Ukraine will give European business-as-usual forces one more excuse turn the EU Green Deal into that potentially perfect but always elusive pie in the sky.
Resources for a better future: Technology
“Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We’re living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade”
How Putin’s War Is Fast Changing Our Energy Future
Vladimir Putin’s ugly war of annihilation in Ukraine has probably ended globalization as we know it, along with our culture’s ignorance of the reality of depleting finite resources.
The Necessity of Joy in Permaculture
But we won’t be able to design healthy systems unless we really show up, and we cannot really show up unless we find our joy, more fully inhabit our forms and thus better connect with the living world around us.
How Corporate Dominance Is Driving Civilization to a Precipice
The neoliberal ideology of unrestrained markets has led to a global crisis. Humanity now faces an existential threat as the result of global dominance by corporations, whose ultimate goal is at odds with human flourishing.
Life in ‘Degrowth’ Economy: Envisioning a Prosperous Descent (Part IV of Ecological Civilisation)
What would daily life would be like in a ‘degrowth’ economy? That is, in an economy seeking planned contraction of energy and resource demands in order to achieve sustainability, equity, and social wellbeing.
