Graphite: A new energy economy resource is suddenly harder to get
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.
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How Community Energy Initiatives Can Be an Effective Tool for Degrowth
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.
Living in a World-in-Crisis: Thinking Beyond Catastrophism. Part 1
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.
An elegy in prose for Michael Dowd
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.
Pincushion America revisited: The legacy of fracking on our drinking water
The toxic legacy of fracking is now making itself visible in our drinking water. Expect many more stories of contamination in the coming years.
Grounds Keeper of the Earth: How Campuses Can Transition to Organic Land Care
Seattle University has been a leader in pesticide-free and organically maintained landscape and land care since 1986.
Climate change and the hidden water cost of the Panama Canal
The critical importance of water transportation is coming into focus as lack of water cripples river and canal navigation.
Plenitude
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.
Short editorial holiday August 28-29
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.
“It helped make the future visible” – Reflections on our spring gatherings
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.
Very very light posting 9 to 16th June, 2023
Due to editorial holiday, there will be very very light posting from 9th to 16th June. Regular posting will resume on Monday, 19th June.
‘Regenerative agriculture’ is all the rage – but it’s not going to fix our food system
Despite regenerative agriculture’s popularity and its focus on sustainable food production, it fails to tackle systemic social and political issues. As a result, the movement may perpetuate business-as-usual in the food system, rather than transform it.
