Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
John Wood, Jr. is a national leader for Braver Angels, a former nominee for Congress, former Vice-Chairman of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County, musical artist and a noted writer and speaker on issues of political and racial reconciliation.
He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
To ‘enforest ourselves’, we will need an acrobatics of the intelligence and the imagination, and an indefinite, delicate suspense, as we try to translate what those plants and animals do, what they communicate and how they live.
Every tree matters—even stunted ones living out just a shadow of their tree nature—so get your shallow tray out of the house when you can, or, if possible, find ways to plant your roots in the ground outside.
To ensure a healthy, just future for all life on earth, we must embrace decolonization as our guiding environmental policy.
We need to reclaim our true past and create a future in which the care that nurtures life is the only work necessary, where money and hierarchies and all the other fancies of A Man are thrown on the compost heap, and where all work is done by and for all people.
Open democracy is a system in which power is equally distributed, or equally accessible at the very least, to ordinary citizens. E
“Diversity matters in climate and energy policy because for too long, concerns of vulnerable communities have been minimized and dismissed while white-male-dominated-fossil-fuel interests have profited from exploiting marginalized people. “
The application of True Cost Accounting can be used to re-establish farming systems that operate within planetary boundaries and produce food in harmony with nature across the globe.
Eric Kampe shares experiences and perspectives on launching a small farm enterprise with a focus on both personal values and farm economics.
In this intervention I highlight an element that has been overlooked in this important debate about “progressive environmental futures” – the dismantling of fossil capitalism.
How do we build strong local living economies for a post-carbon world? Tune into a stimulating conversation about how to move forward.
RIVERCIDE – a live investigative documentary on the shocking state of Britain’s rivers, hosted by leading environmental journalist George Monbiot (author of Feral, Out of the Wreckage, presenter of Apocalypse Cow, Guardian columnist) and directed by Grierson-winner Franny Armstrong (McLibel, The Age of Stupid) – will be streamed live on Wednesday 14 July, 7pm BST.
