By Olaf Bruns, Green European Journal
Tim Jackson’s new book, Post Growth: Life after Capitalism (Polity Press, 2021), follows his ground-breaking Prosperity without Growth (2009, updated in 2017). Whilst the previous work reflected, partly, the austerity-driven answers to the Great Recession, Post Growth falls into a different world.
By Willi Kiefel, Feasta
Although Ireland still has a fairly good natural environment in comparison with some other countries, we are putting ourselves in grave danger because of the tendency to damage and even destroy our natural environment in the pursuit of commercial profits.
By Amy Goodman, Raj Patel, Rupa Marya, Democracy Now!
As much of the world struggles to cope with the pandemic and its impacts, we begin today’s show with the authors of a new book that examines the social and environmental roots of poor health. “Your body is part of a society inflamed,” write the authors.
By Elias Crim, Shareable
The site houses some 70 small businesses in what Southern Dallas County developer and human connector, Monte Anderson, calls “a collaborative village.” It’s a prime example of what’s known as incremental development.
By Christina Conklin, MAHB
Living with a paradox is being able to hold two different, even opposite, truths and allowing them to coexist in a complex relationship, because we do not, and cannot, know what the future holds.
By Amy Scaife, Transition Network
What if the plans for the thriving future became widely available? With accessible language, beautiful art and friendly faces to discuss and plot new plans with? What if these hubs of information, inclusivity and imagination popped up in a park, or a high street corner, or place of worship?
By Mary Evelyn Tucker, Center for Humans and Nature
With such an understanding of the continuity of all life we can develop a more robust cosmological ethics highlighting responsibility and reciprocity for our magnificent Earth community.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Ecological economist Tim Jackson is one of the few serious scholars trying to imagine what a post-growth world might look like.
By Vicki Robin, Dany Sigwalt, Resilience.org
Dany Sigwalt, Executive Director at Power Shift Network, has spent much of her career moving between movement building and youth leadership development, working to marry the two into one cohesive strategic reality. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
We share some of the most interesting reads from the past year, on everything from toxic weedkillers to bringing back beavers.
By Loretta Graceffo, Waging Nonviolence
Though the AIDS Memorial Quilt is the most famous example, quilts have been utilized as a medium for protest, storytelling and preserving a people’s version of history for centuries.
By Martin Kalungu-Banda, Presencing Institute
The Mandela Day has inspired me to reflect on two things: the importance of collective leadership and the need to heal from the traumas of our history.