Life found on Mars
No, life has not yet been found on Mars, but imagine waking up to that headline. How would you react? What would this stir for you?
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Ralph Borsodi and Transition Towns
Borsodi envisioned his School as a local, self-governing organization to provide the basic knowledge and skills for a livable world and the good life.
The XR activists who took on oil giant Shell – and won
Six Extinction Rebellion activists have been acquitted in a landmark verdict at Southwark Crown Court this afternoon.
The Red Deal: Indigenous action to save our Earth
The Red Deal is a manifesto and movement — borne of Indigenous resistance and decolonial struggle — to liberate all peoples and save our planet.
5 things you need to know about measuring sustainability
For the last four years, The SFT has been working on the Global Farm Metric (GFM) – a harmonised measure of sustainability that has the potential to unite food system stakeholders, such as farmers, retailers and banks across the globe and re-situate agriculture as a solution to climate change, biodiversity loss and declining public health.
Invisible workers, invisible systems
We have to make profound changes to the way we all live, and that includes work. The problem is getting a toehold on the system whose parts are mutually reinforcing and and locks in destruction with its incessant expansion.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 37 Alan AtKisson
Alan AtKisson has been working professionally in sustainable development since 1988 and has been recognized internationally as a pioneering innovator and thought-leader in the field. Alan addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Lies, damn lies and statistics: moderating the tyranny of numbers
Metrics are gamed in order to increase (or decrease) a given number so as to support an argument, boost a political view, trigger a linked payout or justify a proposed policy or course of action.
Earth Day 2021: Awakened Not Woke
It’s Earth Day 2021, and I hope the world’s leaders will boldly go where none have gone before. I am optimistic.
“It’s More A Call To ‘Armies’ Than Arms”
There are Black Swans that you can’t do anything about because you don’t know they’re going to happen; but the Grey Swans are predictable – not in their dimensions or timing exactly; but we know there’s going to be another food price crisis, a catastrophic climactic moment of some sort, or energy problems: things like this are going to happen.
Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
Collectively we three authors of this article must have spent more than 80 years thinking about climate change. Why has it taken us so long to speak out about the obvious dangers of the concept of net zero?
Review: The Economic Superorganism by Carey W. King
In this aptly titled book, University of Texas research scientist Carey W. King argues that the modern-day global economy is a superorganism.
