Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Archaeologists have an important role to play in building a climate-resilient future, but any meaningful progress would benefit from a historical approach that considers multiple ways of understanding the environment, of operating an irrigation canal and of organizing an agriculture-based economy.
So Stroud Land Commons are partnering with the Open Food Network (OFN) to try to create more markets for local food producers. OFN provide an online shopfront for small, local food producers all over the UK (and the world).
We have much cause to worry but neither comfort nor clarity will come if we fixate on widening polarization, Constitutional crises, or warring cultures. Those maladies are symptoms of a more profound distress.
Cobb Hill isn’t the only way to find these six things, thank goodness. You’ll find them in smaller groups and larger ones, in cities, in the tropics, on the coast. In this time of transition and reflection in my own family, I hope that knowing they exist in one place might make it easier for you to imagine (or create) them elsewhere, too.
Whether we’re talking about climate change, civil rights, politics, or anything else, you control the mediums you expose yourself to. Use your critical thinking, set limits and boundaries, resist the manipulation of media.
Security is not built with barbed wire, but with wells, seeds, and justice. As Wanjira Mathai, president of the Green Belt Movement, reminds us: “Every tree planted is an act of defiance against despair.”
These are difficult times indeed, with terrible news on many fronts. What are the prospects for the degrowth alternative as we move through 2025?
Transition needs local people to get involved, lots of us – we can all help to build the story of our future, then act together to make it real. We do this for ourselves, for our children, and for our children’s children, who will inherit our Earth.
The widespread impact of Trump’s incoherent and often conflicting policies is proving as harmful to much of his base as it is to the “opposition.” As unsettling as his policies are, they offer the climate communities an opportunity to take their message directly to Republican voters.
One cannot consider it to be factual, in any way, that humans were made to rule the Earth. That’s a complete fabrication.
In this Frankly, Nate explores the limitations of using our imaginations to shape our understanding of what’s possible through the use of three categories: what can’t happen, what won’t happen, and what might happen.
I think of the motto of the French revolution: liberté, égalité, fraternité, but especially the word fraternity—which meant that everyone was united, everyone was together in the struggle. The best possible interactions with neighbors, or with the government, are predicated on the understanding that we are all in this together.
