How Cooperatives are Building Solidarity and Resilience in Indonesia
Cooperatives are social and economic organizations that strengthen communities — especially in times of hardship.
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Farming Bounded By Our Biological Boundaries – Part 3
Methane has a role to play in sustainable farming. We cannot let the debate around methane emissions cloud the broader benefits of farming with ruminants…
State of the climate: Summer 2021 sets new high for average land temperature
The year so far has been one of extremes, featuring record-shattering heatwaves, wildfires and flooding, as well as the warmest-ever meteorological summer – June, July and August – in the global land-surface record.
Nature in Cities and Cities in Nature
What is the current relationship of modern cities to nature? Cities are important to nature in a backhanded kind of way: without these relatively compact human settlements we would require a lot of more of what now comprises important open, resource lands on which to live.
Will US Climate Policy Be Defeated by the Enmity Within?
In the final analysis, if national policies and programs capable of combating climate change in a meaningful manner are to be enacted, then the Democrats must find a way to reconcile their differences in ways consistent with words like harmony and congruous.
The Path to a Livable Future: Excerpt
And, to complete the circle, neither racial justice nor health justice nor environmental justice nor climate justice can be fully secured without turning the existing economy inside out, dedicating it to meeting society’s needs, not feeding the net worth of the plutocrats.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 57 Sky Nelson-Isaacs
Sky Nelson-Isaacs is a physics educator, speaker, author, and musician. He brings together the connection between synchronicity, physics, and real-life using research and original ideas. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Indigenous understanding of Salween River key for biodiversity
When external experts interpret Indigenous knowledge without the context of Indigenous perception of reality (ontology), they fail to grasp its importance.
Small Farm Future: Why some anticipated problems will not arise
Chris’s book is in my view very important in arguing for the viability of small farms, and thus supporting the claim that they will be crucial in a sustainable future. But there are many more factors that must be considered than food supply for this revolution…
The blinding lights!
Light pollution threatens our planet’s ecosystem by disrupting the light and dark patterns of the natural world. The effects of light pollution are felt not only by humans but they also have a significant impact on wildlife.
Pig apples: or, why small farmsteads are efficient and effective
How people choose to live and what they value are not fixed on tablets of stone, but respond to the circumstances they experience and the stories they’re told. Both are changing.
Cryptocurrency: A New and Dangerous Climate Disruptor
The get-rich-quick scheme, banned in China and elsewhere, is invading U.S. communities unchecked, posing as an “equalizing, democratizing” currency.
It’s not.
