Island Culture Rising
Local lean economies are emerging that can be described quite accurately as ‘island cultures,’
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“Whose Streets, Our Streets”: Democracy Still Lives in Public Spaces
Regardless of how you feel about the 2016 U.S. election results, one thing is clear: public spaces are doing their job.
Degrowth Is Punk as F*ck
“Very serious people often tell us that the word “degrowth” is too negative. People like happy, positive, nice things. Sure, the economy is systematically destroying life on earth. But nobody wants to degrow it. Instead, these critics prefer words like “post-growth,” “a-growth,” “re-growth”, even the mythical “green growth.” They want to create a circular economy, … Read more
Reflection on Journey to Earthland
Do we, as humankind, understand how dire our situation is, and how radical our responses must be?
Debating the Role of Livestock with Joel Salatin
Do livestock hold the key to a healthy planet and population? In Bristol on the 23rd November, we held an event to discuss this question.
Sustainable Activism: Managing Hope and Despair in Social Movements
In our own experience of movements for change from the 1970s onwards we’ve been struck by the way in which a failure to contain despair can lead to unrealistic hopes, built on a denial of and a flight from some difficult truths.
Meet Four Young Farmers Who Are Rising to the Challenge of Water Scarcity in the Western U.S.
A new short film, Conservation Generation, offers a look into the lives of four young farmers and ranchers in Colorado and New Mexico who are following their passion for agriculture amidst historic drought, climate change, development, and heightened competition for water.
Meet the Scrapers: Reducing Energy Use on the Cheap
In which we learn how a sensible family of limited financial means achieved their goal of reducing their energy usage and utility bills.
Questioning The Free Trade Mantra
In the matter of Free Trade, as with any ideology, there are none so zealous as the newly converted.
Not So Prolific: U.S. Shale Faces A Reality Check
U.S. shale’s possibilities may seem endless, but the low hanging fruit in terms of efficiency and costs savings has been picked and therefore current discoveries might not be so prolific.
Feeding Wessex without Fossil Fuels
How could an energy-constrained Wessex feed itself in 2039?
Growthism
Of course we all know at some level what a “healthy shopping season” is really healthy for: the economy–that thing, that thing which giveth, it is true, but also taketh away, and is still the only game in town.
