Transitioning Our Money to Invest Local
People often ask, “So what do Transition Town groups do?” One answer to that question would be, “We take good ideas, bring them home, and make them real.”
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Native pipeline foes make inroads across Northern Plains
As Native grassroots water protectors carried on more than a decade of resistance to oil and gas pipeline construction during the first part of December, authorities across the Northern Great Plains responded in kind.
UNEP: Net-zero pledges provide an ‘opening’ to close growing emissions ‘gap’
The recent net-zero pledges by major emitting countries and the potential for a “green recovery” from the Covid-19 pandemic “presents the opening” for the world to close the growing “gap” between existing commitments and what is needed to limit global warming to meet the Paris Agreement goals.
Who eats local food?
As we leave the EU and transition to a new agricultural policy, it is imperative that Government wakes up to the rising and broad-based consumer demand for local and sustainable food.
Native youth center, rebounding from double whammy
These practices of relational and cultural connections, while missed, may also be the very reasons MIGIZI can play a unique role in mitigating some of the negative impacts of the coronavirus in the community.
Helping Indigenous Peoples Stay on Their Land
We need more information about where organizations are having success in helping with the central goal – preserving cultures so that they can evolve in the way they wish, so that families will not lose their young to the cities, and watch the incursions of exploitation fill the gaps.
Climate Policy in the Biden Era: Georgia on My Mind
On January 5, 2021, Georgia voters will again be casting ballots to fill both of its US Senate seats. The outcome of the Peach State’s balloting is second in importance only to November’s presidential contest.
Over 550 Environmental Groups Rally Around Call for Biden to Act on Plastics Pollution in 2021
Yesterday, an unusually broad coalition of environmental groups, numbering more than 550, called on the incoming Biden-Harris administration to address plastic pollution alongside fossil fuels.
Time to get defiant: Improving our collective food awareness
Good food for everyone is a matter of social justice and if you’re not angry about the current inequalities then maybe you should be.
Taking on the tech titans: Reclaiming our data commons
What strategies, structures and institutions are needed at national and international levels to confront Big Tech and advance digital justice?
Shifting baselines and coping with planetary change
It is not easy today to take an interest in the future of the planet, and especially in human civilisation, without becoming bewildered.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 26 Julian Brave NoiseCat
Julian Brave NoiseCat is Vice President of Policy & Strategy for Data for Progress and Narrative Change Director for the Natural History Museum. Julian provides his insight on What Could Possibly Go Right?
