Our Actions Create the Future: A Response to Jem Bendell
I believe that hope has a crucial role in healing, and in driving our engagement in effecting the deep transformation we need.
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Responding to Green Positivity Critiques of Deep Adaptation
Since my paper on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos came out in July 2018 and “went viral,” there have been some criticisms of the concept and what people think it implies.
Transition Streets Gets an Update!
This 2019 revision of the Transition Streets handbook not only captures what’s new, it includes additional information to consider in how we think about the lives we lead and the changes we want to make.
What is a Permaculture Convergence?
A conference, convention, gathering of grand wizards. Just some of the things I’ve heard a convergence mistakenly called over the years. If you’ve never been to one then you’re missing out – but missing out on what!? What is a convergence?
New Money Meets the Cost of Change: How Local Currencies Save Economies and Communities, and Help them Flourish
Of course the economic crisis was fundamental to the evolution of alternative economics in Greece. Although some thinkers have long advocated other ways of using and running currencies, most barter systems arise in times of upheaval where trust in the banks is eroded or they withdraw liquidity.
The Path To Liberating Humanity Is The Same As The Path To Liberating The Individual
The path to enlightenment is the process of becoming clearly aware of all the different aspects of the way you operate inside, which enables you to relate to life as it’s actually appearing
Funding Transformation
A healthy participatory democracy relies on forms of community development that support effective mobilisation at the local level and encourage advanced capacities for democratic decision making and critical thinking.
Climate Change is Fueling Wildfires around the World. Can Indigenous Knowledge Help us Manage Them?
Combining traditional knowledge with modern science and technology could reduce loss of property and human life from out-of-control blazes.
What are Systemic Alternatives?
The premise of systemic alternatives is that the environmental, economic, social, geopolitical, institutional and civilizational crises are part of a whole, are interrelated and feed into one another.
When People Downsize to Tiny Houses, they Adopt more Environmentally Friendly Lifestyles
Interest is surging in tiny homes – livable dwelling units that typically measure under 400 square feet. Much of this interest is driven by media coverage that claims that living in tiny homes is good for the planet.
ExxonMobil Misled the Public. Now they’re Trying to Mislead the European Parliament
Although ExxonMobil now claim to support climate action, they continue to misrepresent scientific work in order to protect profits and protect themselves from liability or responsibility.
Energy Transition in India and Southeast Asia, Part 1
At the same time, India is busily electrifying 18,000 villages, pushing forward on the electrification of transportation, and developing demand-side technologies that together are more likely to make India one of the world’s great success stories in energy transition than one of the world’s largest upcoming carbon emitters.
