Baby bees love carbs, experiments show – here’s why that matters
By considering the nuances of bees’ dietary needs, we can design nutritionally balanced seed mixes that help pollinators shore up our ecosystems and food supplies.
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Transforming Work, Reimagining Education
A proper reorganisation should be based on this understanding of work as just one of several realms of life; a life brimming with moments of connection, rest, labour, contemplation, education, and idleness.
France | Building Rural Resilience From The Ground Up
Nos Campagnes En Résilience is a new project to build rural resilience in France, coordinated by ARC2020. It’s about rural communities finding ways to live and grow with respect for people and nature.
Op-ed: Flood survivors find common ground in a divided nation
Today, Americans have sorted ourselves into communities defined by geography, demography, ideology— and opportunities to communicate across those divides are exceedingly rare. But the shared trauma of flooding offers an opening.
A Doughnut Economy Please—But Hold the Agnostic Frosting
If we are to be taken seriously about changing the goal “from GDP [growth] to the doughnut,” we better understand how that doughnut translates to GDP terms. Taking a “growth-agnostic” pill won’t cut it.
Musings on Human Supremacy, Religious Patriarchy, and Industrial Ecology
If human institutions fail to move from dominion to partnership, from patriarchy to solidarity, there can be no social/ecological justice, and we might as well forget about exploring other planets.
Is green growth happening?
So, is green growth happening? The answer is no, not really. As of today, economic growth is still a vector of resource use and environmental degradation.
The single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth…
The single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth is to stop thinking there’s a single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, or that bang for your buck metrics of this kind are helpful in formulating how best to live.
The Ecological Gardener
A wildflower meadow can be grown anywhere and be of any size, but why not start with the grassy sward many of us already possess: a lawn?
Imagine Earth Day in ten years
It’s a bit of a challenge, to imagine what Earth Day will look like in ten years. Part of that challenge arises from the fact that it depends on what we do throughout that decade to deal with and try to correct the ravages of incipient climate change effects.
The Year of Choosing Daringly
What 2021 seems to offer is a space to name and claim the full possibility that humans can still be a blessing on this earth, that the blueprints for a society based on well-being are well-developed and ready to build.
Vaccine equality: Who gets it?
Ensuring equitable vaccine access is about human rights. And access should never have been determined by wealth.
