Henry David Thoreau, philosopher of post-traumatic growth
Thoreau’s masterpiece Walden, in fact, can be read as a manual for post-traumatic growth (i.e., personal growth in the wake of traumatic experiences).
Society
The climate response cliff
Thus any solution must come bottom up from ordinary people making the lifestyle changes governments should be directing, prefiguring the world we want to live in…and creating community in the process.
Glasgow communities showing COP leaders the way
Plugging in to a wider network of other groups also developing grassroots climate responses can help our local ideas and projects to flourish, help us learn and share with others that have the vision of more sustainable and equal communities where we have control over our day to day lives.
Making sense of our multispecies world: Body-Forest as community
The border between the human and the non-human is far less clear than we once believed. How might this impact the way we relate to the Earth?
Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class
The social order that capital’s apologists defend as inevitable and eternal is “the product of many economic revolutions, of the extinction of a whole series of older formations of social production.” Acceptance of the wages-system as a natural way to live and work did not happen easily.
Why I’ll be giving poems as presents this Christmas
Progress is entirely incommensurable with precaution, with a ‘No’ to recklessness. It’s time to say enough to progress and begin to reorient our political narratives around a precautionary logic.
No Future Under Plutocracy
If no large segment of the plutocratic class is likely to support serious climate action, then we must be prepared to break through its confines by building a much more democratic society. Only then will we be able to transition towards a sustainable society as quickly as we possibly can, and perhaps even get there.
Hacking at the root
So how do we hack at the root? I don’t really have an answer but I think a few useful things might include: working continuously to break through corporate control of the narrative, to educate our fellow citizens; fighting to block whatever insanity is pushing through in our own locales; and working to set up ourselves, our families and our communities to get through the coming collapse with as much integrity as possible.
Appropriate Technology, Traditional Cultures and Degrowth
Traditional/original AT, based on communal social arrangements, hand-crafted from local, natural materials that cultures have used since centuries mostly for subsistence purposes, satisfies practically all of the principles of deep sustainability.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 64 Toyia Taylor
Toyia T. Taylor is the Founder and Executive Director of We.APP and is a highly sought-after educator and motivational speaker, who has used her voice to inspire audiences nationally and internationally. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
The Cult of Busy-ness
This mania for wage work is not just killing us and our planet; it is not even generating any true rewards for anyone. It is empty, useless waste. And it certainly isn’t getting any real work done.
The UK’s policing bill will make climate activism almost illegal – just when it’s most needed
The proposed legislation represents a dangerous threat to essential democratic and civil liberties such as the right to protest.
