The miniaturization of death: How technology has tipped the balance away from state power
Violence is coming in smaller and smaller packages these days.
Violence is coming in smaller and smaller packages these days.
More and more countries are becoming stingy about what natural resources they will ship abroad. That has implications for new energy economy products and industries.
Financial resources, both local and international, should support decentralized, citizen/community-led initiatives rather than large-scale private renewable energy projects that do not align with degrowth principles. It is time to prioritize community and the environment over profit in the energy sector.
Resilience here, then, is not the naïve faith in riding the storm and putting the world back together more or less as it was, issue by issue, but recognising the necessity to fundamentally reorganise and reorient human society in ways that can allow human flourishing and ecological sustainability in symbiotic and mutually supportive relations of reciprocity and regeneration – and in a multiplicity of ways.
Michael Dowd’s spirit left his body, in the wee hours of Saturday, October 7, pulling out the roots of him from thousands, tens of thousands, of people – me included.
The toxic legacy of fracking is now making itself visible in our drinking water. Expect many more stories of contamination in the coming years.
Seattle University has been a leader in pesticide-free and organically maintained landscape and land care since 1986.
The critical importance of water transportation is coming into focus as lack of water cripples river and canal navigation.
My garden is a plenum – a spatially continuous living community which includes me, its caretaker – and I intuitively experience it as such while simultaneously perceiving a visual panorama, an audible space filled with the music of cicadas, crickets and birds as well as an expanse of floral perfume.
The editorial team will be taking a short break on Monday, August 28 and Tuesday August 29. Regular posting will resume on Wednesday, August 30.
Imagining the future doesn’t make our present difficulties evaporate – but it gives us a north star to work towards and a collective vision of the difference our work could make.
Due to editorial holiday, there will be very very light posting from 9th to 16th June. Regular posting will resume on Monday, 19th June.