Dark Mountain Issue 10: Uncivilised Poetics
There’s something dishevelled and unsettling about poetry.
Society
Vindication for Press Freedom as Charges Dropped Against Journalist Amy Goodman
In a vindication for press freedom and land protectors fighting against the Dakota Access Pipeline, North Dakota has dismissed the “riot” charges against Democracy Now! journalist Amy Goodman, issued after she reported on pipeline company security guards physically assaulting nonviolent, mostly Indigenous land protectors in September.
Into the Ruins Issue 2: Review
Science fiction fans who pine for stories grounded in reality, rather than in the techno-fantasies that prevail in most other science fiction, will find much to like in Into the Ruins.
Naomi Klein & the LetÂdown of the Leap Manifesto: It’s Time We Divest From the Pipelines – the Pipelines of Film & Television (part 4/4)
There is no single extremely viable change we could make in our lives to combat fossil fuel consumption (and thus climate change) than ditching film and television.
An Afternoon in Early Autumn
I think it was the late science writer Stephen Jay Gould who coined the term “deep time” for the vast panorama opened up to human eyes by the last three hundred years or so of discoveries in geology and astronomy.
Court Rejects Dakota Access Injunction, But Standing Rock Sioux Vow ‘This is Not The End’
A U.S. federal court of appeals ruled against the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe late Sunday evening and denied its request for an emergency injunction against the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.
Casino Collapse and Economic Collapse Need not be the Same
If both work and pleasure can be a walk or short cycle ride from our doors, then the energy demands of a culture will suddenly become much simpler and will also shrink.
Finding Our Frontlines in Indigenous North Dakota: The Climate Justice Movement is Standing Up – A Special Issue of Earth News: More than News of the World
There is no doubt in my mind that this front in the epic struggle for global climate justice – and so much more – will be recognized in the future as a crucial epicenter, a ground zero, of our movement…
Capitalism Killing You? Income Sharing Could Save our Lives
Economic insecurity is the American nightmare.
The Myth of the Anthropocene
To explore the messy future that modern industrial society is making for itself, it’s necessary now and again to stray into some of the odd corners of human thought.
If Nature Is Sacred, Capitalism Is Wicked
The conflict between capitalism and the environment is the fight of the century.
Earth Church Is Not Cool
This frees us from the need to answers to the question “how should we live?”, at least in any grand manner.
