Insulate Britain: blocking roads will alienate some people – but it’s still likely to be effective
Insulate Britain is a campaign group urging government action on greenhouse gas emissions and fuel poverty in the country’s housing stock.
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The fight over food at the UN’s Food Summit
So it’s also possible that this is just a ‘used future’, as Sohail Inayatullah has it—a set of ideas “created in some other context, but to which we are unconsciously holding on to, blinding us to other more authentic and empowering ideas of the future.”
Instituting liberty: Contested, changing, conflicted definitions
The definition of freedom and liberty is always contested (at any given moment, people within a society disagree); always changing (over time, societies’ understandings will shift); and always conflicted (we struggle because there are no simple policies to maximize liberty).
Time to transition to agroecology in Africa
It is time for African governments to step back from the failing Green Revolution and chart a new food system that respects local cultures and communities by promoting low-cost, low-input ecological agriculture.
Why is the political process so slow to respond to our ecological crisis?
All paths out of overshoot (genuine solutions) involve a contraction of the species and a decline of material/energy throughput. There are no exceptions.
Whither the pluriverse? Degrowth and coloniality
Will degrowth as a discourse and movement extend coloniality, by aiming to make just one world out of the many that form the earth’s pluriverse?
Climate storytelling: Creativity and imagination in the face of bleak realities
In order to write creatively about food cultivation, climate change, and social justice, we need to understand how they operate in the world we live in. Imagining a better future, therefore, requires keen and purposeful observations of the present. It requires science.
Towards a Just Recovery from the Covid-19 Crisis
As NAFSN highlighted the implications of the viral outbreak for the region, it also considered the crisis to be an opportunity to create an alternative to the current unjust and precarious systems we are living under.
The Key Is Interrelated Communities
Rather than slogging along into the Era of Disasters with incorrect mechanistic assumptions underlying our policies and practices in modernized cultures worldwide, we can, instead, apply the new relational discoveries.
From Popovers to Popunders: The Kind of Decarbonization That Can Succeed
A downsizing economy will require a smaller and smaller energy supply; in time, energy demand will become modest enough that it can be fully satisfied with renewable sources, sustainably deployed.
A Fairer, Greener Scotland
What opportunities, and risks, does government participation offer to the Scottish Green Party? And what will happen next?
Joe Manchin’s “Strategic” Paws: Will They Choke Biden’s Climate Plans?
What will Joe Biden be remembered for? It likely depends on the fate of two pieces of legislation that encompass nearly the entirety of his once-in-a-generation agenda, including infrastructure, climate, voter rights, higher taxes for the wealthy, equal justice for people of color and low incomes, healthcare, and greater assistance for low-income families and children.
