The Last Mile
And there is no shame in leaving the marked trail of the race you started to follow a better course. There is only shame at not running your best race. For yourself and for Gaia.
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Agroforestry: An ancient practice with a promising future?
Traditionally defined as the growing of commercially productive trees and agricultural crops on the same piece of land, agroforestry is, despite its new-found fame, a very old practice – though one which has sadly been almost entirely lost from our landscape.
Brave New Normal
Cultivating cooperative, self-sustaining communities can undermine destructive economic systems and offer meaningful responses to social-ecological crises in the wake of the pandemic.
Degrowth: A North American Vision
Students and scholars of steady-state economics must have noticed, by now, that the Degrowth movement in Europe has attained far more traction than the steady-state movement has in the USA (or anywhere).
Clean energy minerals shortage: Who knew it could happen?
Will there be enough of the minerals critical for the technology behind the so-called green energy revolution?
The Survivors Will Be Bioregional
I want to talk to all of you today about the humans that survived the current planetary predicament. How did they organize their lives? What was the key to their success?
Ode to my broadfork
This baby will lift the impossible concretions of Carolina red clay, even if it’s pretty dry. It’ll bring water and air to roots and worms so long entombed they’re shocked by the concept of oxygen.
Explainer: Will global warming ‘stop’ as soon as net-zero emissions are reached?
Much of the confusion around committed warming stems from mixing up two different concepts: a world where CO2 levels in the atmosphere remain at current levels; and a world where emissions reach net-zero and concentrations begin to fall.
One Blue Earth – Shining a Spotlight on Climate Change Solutions
One Blue Earth seeks to raise public awareness about the consequences of global warming and to educate our communities about current scientific and grass-roots efforts to develop workable solutions to mitigate and reverse climate change.
Peter Linebaugh on What the History of Commoning Reveals
Indeed, we have wandered out of our knowledge and lost track of the commons. But there is another sun, shining in a different quarter of the sky.
Rewilding Agricultural Landscapes: Excerpt
The term rewilding is being used more broadly these days to refer to restoring diversity, variability, and function so that ecosystems can once again support the full diversity of species and become self-regulating and resilient to climate change.
The relationship of my texts to a dead fish
As a writer, my work involves a search for small islands of coherence – that I can later describe – in which social and ecological relationships thrive together.
