By Jane K. Brundage, Resilience.org
Shalanda Baker’s Revolutionary Power: An Activist’s Guide to the Energy Transition (Island Press, January 2021) presents readers with quite a ride!
By Breanna Draxler, YES! magazine
A new social movement is bringing together Indigenous activists and TikTok creators to prevent drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
By Jan Juffermans, Share The World's Resources
The campaign for 'Footprint Justice' is gathering momentum with a call for UN member states to investigate the legal implications of enshrining a 'Fair Earth Share' as a human right.
By John de Graaf, Resilience.org
I have come to believe that Udall was actually in many ways, a conservative whose creative ideas may help point America’s way forward in a turbulent, polarized, and destructive time. Above all, Udall was devoted to conserving the land and the beauty of the American landscape.
By Ursula Billington, ARC2020
Small-scale urban farming is a key piece of the food resilience puzzle. In the face of crisis, local growing has proved a reliable ally.
By Andrew Willner, Resilience.org
Rondout Riverport 2040 will serve as an empowering example to our bioregion and our country – demonstrating the viability of ethical livelihoods and teaching beneficial sustainable technologies that do minimal socio-environmental harm; methodologies that foster self-reliance and promote Slow Tech hands-on work practices.
By Leslie MacKenzie, Transition US
Transition Longfellow connected climate change to the things our neighbors love and care about the most – their children’s health, their chickens and vegetable gardens, their homes, and favorite businesses.
By Shalanda H. Baker, Resilience.org
We must view the battle for the design of the new, clean energy system through the same lens we use to view broader struggles for economic and civil rights.
By Derrick Gentry, The Owl Light News
As more and more of us are turned on to the idea of small-scale self-reliance and seek to build resilient local communities, one of the most serious challenges we face is basic access to affordable land.
By Vicki Robin, Resilience.org
Many may feel this way now as we emerge from Covid and the Trump presidency - still somewhat skittish after 4 years of waking to ever crazier tweets, threats, and lies – yet cautiously hopeful.
By Arthur Romano, Waging Nonviolence
King’s recognition of profound interconnectivity demanded that human security be grounded in the quality of our relationships, the systems we have in place to support people when things get hard, and by creating international frameworks to guarantee equity and human dignity over profit.
By Kate S. Petersen, Environmental Health News
In 2019, Moomaw and his co-authors published a scientific review finding that the capacity of forested lands to sequester carbon dioxide could be increased significantly. They say the fastest way to do this is through what they call "proforestation," the natural growth and development of standing forest ecosystems.