OVERdevelopment, OVERpopulation, OVERshoot
In reality, every discussion about population involves people, the world that our children and grandchildren will live to see and the health of the planet that supports all life.
Society
Logic Of Power
When a group outdominates the current dominators, they become the new dominators.
Cutting the carbon cost of climate research
Should the research community be exempted from the emission reduction targets applied elsewhere?
The View From Outside
Despite the rockets and rayguns that provide so much of its local color, science fiction is always about the present, which it displays in an unfamiliar light by showing a view from outside, from the distant perspective of an imaginary future.
How to Speak Transition in Spanish
Juan del Rio is the author of the recently published ‘Guía del movimiento de transición’, the first book about Transition in Spanish.
As U.N. Backs Fossil Fuel Divestment, Bill McKibben on Vanuatu, Oxford Vote, California Water Crisis
As the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu is devastated by Cyclone Pam, 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben links the storm to global warming and responds to the new decision by the the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to back the fast-growing divestment campaign to persuade investors to sell off their fossil fuel assets.
What we can still learn from “Star Trek”: a saga of harmony in diversity
A low budget TV series that influenced a whole generation. Cardboard models of spaceships, few and simple special effects, a small number of actors always engaged in the same mock-up of the command bridge of a starship. And, yet …
How to Design a Shared Backyard
When you live in the city or the suburbs, it can be hard to fit everything you want into a small or mid-sized yard.
Building Grassroots Independent Journalism: The Real Media Network
In a similar way that UKUncut brought corporate tax dodging to public awareness and the Occupy movement the corrupt banking system, Real Media wants to expose the hyperreal, hostile nature of the press that distorts rather than reports on the reality we live in.
Only Less Will Do
Violin playing constitutes an ecologically benign hobby, right?
How Agriculture Grew on us
In other words, agriculture turned destructive not because of some intrinsic flaw within larger-scale, more sophisticated cultivation. It turned destructive for the same reason mining, conflict, grazing, or governance turned destructive.
Resilience Roundup – Mar 13
The Year Humans Started to Ruin the World…
