Towards the Tipping Point: Understanding Trump in a Larger Historical Context
Every day, the news seems only to get worse.
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Obama Banned Arctic and Atlantic Offshore Drilling and Big Oil Isn’t Happy
President Obama has announced what amounts to a ban of offshore drilling in huge swaths of continental shelf in both the Alaskan Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Ocean, a decision which came after years of pushing by environmental groups.
The Macabre Petroleum Waltz of Trump and Putin
Oil has fueled a bully bromance between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Cities in Transition
CommonsPolis— a civil society initiative to create dialogue between progressive municipalist movements and city governments, and European citizens — held an encounter described as “a common space for exchange; cities in transition and citizen struggles” in Paris on November 24, 2016…
NASA Produces First 3D Animation of Global Carbon Emissions
NASA, the US space agency, has released an “eye-popping” three-dimensional animation showing carbon dioxide emissions moving through the Earth’s atmosphere over the course of a year.
‘Pesticide Powerhouses’ and the Future of Farming
Should they be approved, just three companies will control 65% of the world’s pesticide sales and 61% of the world’s commercial seed sales – the biggest agribusiness oligopoly in history.
Beyond Trump: The Path to Real Change
This webinar serves as a hopeful antidote to the paralysis felt by many following the election of Donald Trump as the 45th US President.
There is only One Culture: Bringing Back Science into the Fold of Humanism
If we want to save the world, we don’t need gadgetry, we need to be what we are: human beings.
Resources and Economy
The notion of “decoupling” energy consumption from economic growth has become vogue in policy circles, but how much evidence is there that it’s really happening?
Patterns of Commoning: A Journey Through Time to the Irrigation System in Valais, Switzerland
In Valais, Switzerland, a network of “artificial canals” was rediscovered in the 1980s.
At Standing Rock, No One Goes Hungry: The Kitchen That Serves Traditional Lakota Food and Values
Hundreds of water protectors gathered in a solar-powered 200-foot geodesic dome nestled on the plains amid tipis and waited three hours to join a traditional Lakota dinner on Thanksgiving.
In Conversation: Our Economy After Fossil Fuels
As our energy sources change, our economy will likely evolve and adapt—perhaps in surprising ways.
