Technology that “empowers the individual” can threaten all of us
“Empowerment” is a buzzword for our age. But when does empowerment mean catastrophic societal risk?
Society
Around the world in a shopping cart
In that paradise of capitalist productivity, who besides Jeff Bezos will still have enough income to fill their shopping carts?
Of grain and gulags: a note on work, labour and self-ownership
Self-possession implies property in some sense – being able to claim a personal right to generate wellbeing from the world we share with other people and organisms.
Blah, blah, blah, yay: Another epic fail for the COP, but seeds of growth for our movements
The winners of COP 26 were the indefatigable voices of civil society, whose actions were loud and clear: on the final Friday, many, many organizations walked out of the COP in protest, reminded me of the walkout I witnessed and took part in at COP 19 in Warsaw in 2013.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 62 Susan Campbell
Since 1967, Dr. Susan Campbell has been a couple’s therapist, relationship coach, speaker, workshop leader, trainer of professional coaches, college professor, certified Radical Honesty trainer, and founding teacher of the Getting Real work. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth
Ending the extraction of fossil fuels from the Earth while achieving material sufficiency, equity and justice would move us a long way toward the more livable future that the people who gathered outside COP26 — along with billions of others around the world — are demanding and are standing ready to create.
Can the Green New Deal save us? No it can’t.
Advocates for a Green New Deal are for a collection of admirable goals which it is usually taken for granted can be achieved within a capitalist economy and while the pursuit of economic growth continues. Here is an indication of the main reasons why these assumptions are totally mistaken.
Campaign to shut down New England’s last coal plant is doing ‘what must be done’ for the planet
“This is what the state, this is what the fossil fuel industry will do to protect this big, outdated, ancient asset — instead of protecting us, the people, and taking action against the climate crisis.”
Without missing a beat, Shapiro-Weiss boldly stated, “This is why we’re doing this.”
Regenerative agriculture in the Amazon
EcoAraguaia Farm of the Future is a former cattle ranch in the Amazon rainforest with a big mission: to show the world how producing food, restoring nature, and creating livelihoods can go hand in hand. The key to all of this? Regenerative agriculture: a holistic system for managing the land that integrates people, planet, and profit.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 61 Miki Kashtan
Miki Kashtan is a “practical visionary”, exploring the application of the principles and tools of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to social transformation. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
A Revolution of the Heart
We need to move from civil disobedience to political disobedience.
We need to move from captured corporate representative democracy (democracy in name only) to the real and deep democracy of deliberative peoples and citizens assemblies.
Confronting the Changing Climate: COP26 – Scientists’ Warnings into Action, from Local to Global
We call on all scientists to sign this paper, and act in a united effort to avoid a catastrophic collapse of civilisation.
