The rights of nature movement cannot be stopped
By Pamela Haines, Waging Nonviolence
From the Navajo Nation to a small town in Pennsylvania to Ecuador, then across the world, the idea of enshrining the rights of nature is only growing.
Act: Inspiration
Rural Europe Takes Action | The Sámi Environmental Programme
By Josefina Skerk, ARC2020
I am proud of the Sámi parliament for creating the Environmental Programme – called Eallinbiras in Sámi. It is more of a life programme. We are trying to convey the Sámi culture to inspire others to have a more sustainable view on life.
How to escape the slow cancellation of the future
By Gerry Hassan, Open Democracy
We have to dare to dream. To conceive and build different futures is central to being human. We cannot let the real ‘cancel culture’ steal our future.
Winter Fluff
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
Perhaps many of you are already floundering around trying to figure out how to keep the house warm despite unaffordable fuel costs. So I thought I might share my down home ways…
A Review of ‘The Age of Low Tech’ by Philippe Bihouix
By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium
The Age Low Tech is a funny, informal, practical, angry, and subtly deep book. Released in 2014, its discussion of energy crisis and supply chain fragility feel prescient to 2022.
Protect the Flame
By Otto Scharmer, Medium
It’s these fields of deepened connection — of radical shared presence — that can support the healing and can function as the soil and seed for a new civilization to emerge.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 85 Seth Godin
By Vicki Robin, Seth Godin, Resilience.org
Seth Godin is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food: An Introduction
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium
Last year, when things really got dodgy and this year looked to be the start of things becoming terrible for the near future, I bit the bullet. I stayed home to raise the food we would eat.
Losing altitude
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
In today’s world a small elite takes multiple trips a year, turning vast energy resources into pollution, in journeys that don’t have a lot of value, even to themselves.
The Power Podcast Episode 1: Introduction to Power
By Richard Heinberg, Melody Travers, Rob Dietz, Resilience.org
If we want to address this problem and reduce the chances of a chaotic collapse of society, we will have to confront our overuse and abuse of power.
Democracy Rising 26: Middle Schoolers as Deliberative Civic Actors
By Stacie Molnar-Main, Resilience.org
In addition to fostering communication and thinking skills, deliberation can lead to changes in how young people engage as learners and citizens.
“We’ll Meet Them Out in the Fields” — Challenging the Pipelines to Nowhere
By Stan Cox, City Lights Books
The pipeline struggle has brought together communities that rarely find common cause and can often be adversaries.