Chester Supertrees – an Inspiration for Transforming our Cities
Today I want to tell you about a really cool project which is a fantastic example of what one passionate individual can do if they put their mind to it.
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Why Should I Sacrifice when Big Companies are to Blame for Climate Change?
Here’s an easy way to differentiate wants from needs: define what you need as the future you want — and the future you want is a functional civilization. I promise.
Living in the Concretaceous Period
While biologists have long agreed that humans are the dominant lifeform of the Anthropocene, some geologists now argue that, during the pivotal Concretaceous phase, it was the automobile that served as the true apex species.
Insights From The Wilderness – Human Civilization Will Not Survive Climate Intensification
The possible future we create together cannot be the future that used to be. We cannot simply re-create the world we are living in today.
Population Wrapped Up: A Response to Jane O’Sullivan
I’d like to have devoted more time to this issue, and perhaps to have reflected further on population issues more generally but with this fairly brief response only to a few of Dr O’Sullivan’s specific points I propose to wrap things up on the population front from the Small Farm Future end.
COP24: No Response to the Crisis
The climate crisis is looming large and threatens to go beyond our capabilities. In addition, COP24 at Katowice has decided on a rulebook that in parts both lacks in substance and is unjust. The resolutions agreed are not enough to prevent disaster, by a long shot.
Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future
The capitalist system, driven at its core by the maximization of profit, regardless of social and ecological costs, is incompatible with a just and sustainable future. Ecosocialism offers a radical alternative that puts social and ecological well-being first.
Courage Before Hope: A Proposal to Weave Emotional and Economic Microsolidarity
I’ve spent most of the past 2 years travelling with my partner Nati, trying to discover what is the most strategic & wise action to take in a world that seems to be accelerating towards collapse. After an enormous amount of consideration, I have a strategy that feels good enough to engage my will and commitment.
Karen MacLean on Den Grønne Friskole, Where Imagination Flourishes
The imagination needs the whole body and all the senses. Sitting still and having to pay attention and only use some of your senses, it gets kids out of the habit of feeling the world and themselves.
What Can We Do?
Reality 101 addresses humanity’s toughest challenges: economic decline, inequality, pollution, biodiversity loss, and war. Students learn about systems ecology, neuroscience, and economics. “We ask hard questions,” says Hagens. “What is wealth? What are the limits to growth? We attempt to face our crises head on.”
Yuval Harari: Please Recognize Your Own Unacknowledged Fictions
Like the traditional religious dogmas that he mocks, his own implicit stories wield great influence over the global power elite as long as they remain unacknowledged. I invite Harari to examine them here. By recognizing them as the myths they actually are, he could potentially transform his own ability to help shape humanity’s future.
The Suburbs are the Spiritual Home of Overconsumption. But they also Hold the Key to a Better Future
Suburban catastrophists such as James Kunstler argue that fossil fuel depletion will turn our suburbs into urban wastelands. But we see the suburbs as an ideal place to begin retrofitting our cities.
