How Can We Keep from Burning Out?
How is it possible that in a movement that’s all about stopping the planet from burning out, we often make a culture where we burn ourselves out instead?
Society
Reading this Weekend: 2015
Reading this weekend: a list of the titles referenced occasionally at the end of my weekly blog from 2015. I make no claim that these are worth your time.
To Change Everything, it’s Going to Take Everything We’ve Got
We’re in a crisis so deep, so knotted, so unprecedented, and so urgent that, well, we have to change everything, pretty much. Or else.
Weather that Reminds us to Give Thanks
Our better angels – our logical analysis of problems, our compassionate desire to help others – are forever warped by the gravitational pull of our primate drive to make ourselves look good….
Retrotopia: Neglected Technologies
Our narrator attends the Lakeland Republic’s annual drone shoot, and finds out that not all technological innovations start out from the current state of the art…
Resilience Roundup – Dec 24
A roundup of news, views and ideas from the main stream press and the blogosphere including: Why Degrowth has out-grown its own name by Kate Raworth | You’re wrong Kate. Degrowth is a compelling word | What If We Just Gave People Enough Money To Live | Money for Free…
Rebel Cities: the Citizen Platforms in Power
Barcelona’s new mayor, former housing rights activist Ada Colau, has compared the experience of winning the city election this spring to giving birth for the first time.
Touching the Earth
It feels to me that we find ourselves in a new world.
The Key to Human History: Ultrasociality?
The concept of "ultrasociality" is becoming increasing popular as a tool to understand the characteristics and the evolution of human society.
Australia’s Powerful Web of Grassroots Climate Resistance
In times of crisis, the only reasonable response is to intervene, and it’s time for civil society in Australia and elsewhere to build the pathways needed to allow people to step into powerful nonviolent direct action.
From Growth Economics to Home Economics: Towards a Peasant Socialism
I have, in short, become an advocate for peasantisation, localisation, agrarian populism, anti-globalisation and degrowth – a cluster of ideas that I think of as an economics of the home
(Perma)culturally Deconditioning the Climate Crisis
It is now more than ever apparent that the permaculture/ regenerative agriculture/ carbon farming community has the more efficient solutions to sequestering carbon and reversing the negative effects of sea level rise, rising temperatures, and ecosystem exploitation.
