Make Connections, Make Food
Seventeen simple sayings for scholar-activists.
Act: Inspiration
“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.
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.
Hearing More About Climate Change
Why is there a big gap between Americans’ stated interest in global warming and our discourse about it?
An ‘Undeniable Success’: Divestment From Fossil Fuels Passes $5 Trillion
Marking the divestment movement’s “undeniable success,” a new report shows the value of funds controlled by individuals and institutions who have vowed to dump their fossil fuels assets now surpasses $5 trillion.
Indigenous Rights and the Fight for Life at Standing Rock
With the announcement that the Dakota Access Pipeline will be re-routed, the water protectors at Standing Rock might have won a battle but they have not yet won the war.
Water Song: Indigenous Women and Water
Water is life and needs to be respected. For the Indigenous people in Canada, there is a reciprocal and unique relationship with water.
From Oil Age to Soil Age
To put it another way: modern citizens today use more energy and physical resources in a month than our great-grandparents used during their whole lifetime.
How Two Tribal Women Are Fighting to Protect the Arctic From Oil Drilling
The Gwich’in people of Alaska and Northern Canada have fought for three decades to protect the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling and other threats.
