Our household farming future
A couple of posts back Greg Reynolds suggested I might write some short declarative sentences about my case for household farming, which struck me as a good idea. So here’s my best shot at it.
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Is This the Future of Civic Engagement?
Gordon says that there are no shortcuts around the amount of work involved in this model of community engagement. “You’re building relationships, building trust.”
Mapped: Where ‘afforestation’ is taking place around the world
A key finding of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) new special report is that it is likely that some degree of “afforestation” will be needed to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
Robbing the Soil, 2: ‘Systematic theft of communal property’
The radical changes known to history by the innocuous name enclosure peaked in two long waves: during the rise of agrarian capitalism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and during the consolidation of agrarian capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth.
Land Skills Fair: This is What Diversity Looks Like!
With a deliberate emphasis on BPOC and also LGBTQ+ communities, the Land Skills Fair took seriously the inseparable connection between ecological diversity and political, social and cultural diversity.
Your gas tank is not an oil well. Your battery will not be a power plant.
But if we’re ready for a serious response to the climate emergency, we should be rapidly curtailing both the manufacture and use of cars, and making the remaining vehicles only as big and heavy as they actually need to be.
Locating Power in a Neoliberal Age
Neoliberal capitalism expands, incorporates, and creates new non-transparent locations of power and decision-making, but also victims with distorted perceptions of self-interest and limited or no capacity for collective action.
Lessons for the Climate Conflict from the Afghanistan Withdrawal
I’d like to use this withdrawal as a foil to one of the many fronts in the climate war we’re waging (if you’ll forgive the militarized metaphor)—specifically geoengineering.
China, 2049
One way or another, however, we can be reasonably certain of one thing: as the term makes all too clear, the old Cold War format for military policy no longer holds, not on such an overheating planet.
The standard American diet: Downstream revenue for the U.S. health care system
Two recent reports add to the mounting evidence about how this strangely destructive system works.
The American Alley, Part 4: Rediscovering the Forgotten Human Scale
It is time that we recognize that the potential for spatially formed, human-scaled, beautiful, and prosperous urban places already lies within every urban block.
Mexican President Offers Temaca a Compromise: A Shorter El Zapotillo Dam
Obrador’s touted Fourth Transformation must include a balance between city and countryside, and a movement from the rapidly growing and unsustainable megacities back to the land. And megadams like El Zapotillo must become a thing of the past…
