The Worth of Wool
Many businesses and industries have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Wool is no exception.
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The Coronavirus-Climate-Air Conditioning Nexus
The severe heat is driving almost all social gatherings and group activities into enclosed, air-conditioned spaces. Getting together these days in the cool indoor world can dramatically raise the risk of coronavirus infection.
The Cure of the Earth
Appeals to self-interest will not, of themselves, stem the Amazon’s hemorrhage. We must also invoke our love of life and the purpose of service that it points to.
Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples Face a Triple Threat from COVID-19, the Dismantling of Socio-Environmental Policies, and International Inaction
The wilful jeopardising of indigenous peoples’ lives is particularly grave when you consider that the death of each elder represents the “burning of a library“.
So You Want to Downscale the Doughnut ? Here’s How.
Today is the launch of Creating City Portraits – a methodological guide for downscaling the Doughnut to the city and turning it into a tool for transformative action.
Eating Seasonally in Early Summer
I first started eating seasonally so I could save money by growing my own food, support my local economy and have the freshest and most flavorful stuff. But that’s not why I keep doing it. The truth is I just personally find it more interesting than eating off the shelf.
Beyond the Divides of Black-and-White Thinking – Coming Together in the Heart of Our Wholeness: Part 2
It is fashionable today to say we are all “racist”, but if we can get past our programmed social conditionings (and yes, there are complex historical layers), at our roots this is not true. In our bones and in our heart, we know we are not apart from each other. It is up to us who have lost them, to go to those roots.
Goodbye, Clean Water, Goodbye EPA
The rush by Donald Trump to dismantle the administrative state is producing an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) strangely complicit in its own destruction. Bit by bit, the EPA will have less to enforce.
Going on an Energy Diet
If fossil fuels are rapidly eliminated during the transition to non-fossil energy, the pool of energy available to society will shrink. How much it shrinks will depend on how fast the new energy capacity and a new electric grid can be developed.
The Revolution Will Not Be “Green”
Long imagined as a bulwark against ecological destruction, players in the mainstream conservation movement—think big NGOs like The Nature Conservancy and their corporate partners—have actually been complicit in that destruction by propping up a fundamentally unsustainable capitalist system and the nature-culture dichotomy it’s built upon.
Should No-Till Farming Be Adopted by All to Help the Earth?
Is no-till growing as great as it’s made out to be? Should it be adopted by all to help the Earth? The answer is yes and no.
50 Shades of Hay (or ‘Why not cutting the lawn is good for the imagination’)
One of the benefits of the lockdown has been an awful lot less mowing of lawns in public spaces. There are many places I walk regularly where the grass is now several feet tall, and I love it.
