Swinging for the Fences
Success, for Obran, is based on employee outcomes rather than shareholder value. By using a private equity playbook for the people, Obran is pushing the worker co-operative movement out of its comfort zone.
Jay Standish
Agroecology: A Labor of Love
We propose that agroecologists explicitly aim to reconceptualize work, disrupt power imbalances, and galvanize support across classes, sectors and species of laborers to have a truly transformative transition to an agroecological economy founded on care.
How Science Fiction Can Inspire Environmentalism and Climate Action
Bluntly, storytelling is the best way—maybe the only way—to inform, persuade, and inspire people to act. It helps us assimilate facts, contextualize them, and understand and share their meaning.
Climate crisis deepens. When will we get it?
If we feel despair, the antidote is action. If we understand the world is ill, we can see ourselves as the antibodies. If we know our world is wounded, we can envision how we might heal it and create a better future for all.
Environmental protesters under attack and often treated as terrorists: Interview with Michael Forst
The repression that environmental activists using peaceful civil disobedience are facing in Europe is a major threat to democracy and human rights, according to U.N. special rapporteur Michel Forst.
Why the climate movement is actually close to winning
Despite widespread discouragement among climate activists, a tested blueprint for successful movements shows immense progress being made.
Degrowthers of the World, Unite: A proposal for degrowth academics, activists, and practitioners to join forces as equals
While we understand the necessity – and some argue, the inevitability – of degrowth, the public relations work of degrowth remains lacking, in spite of the efforts of many learned scholars and activists.
New Hay Moon
As you can imagine, I don’t have much time for much of anything besides the garden under the Hay Moon. But this is sort of what we humans live for. Certainly I do. Making food! Making tasty and nutritious food, food that has no unpronounceable ingredients and much less embedded carbon than what is found in grocery stores — even my food co-op.
Speed Is As Important As Scale
If some degree of warming is inevitable, then it is incredibly important we reach it later, rather than sooner. If we cannot yet fully avoid them, then we must decelerate our climate impacts.
MM #3: Early Life
I want to encourage you to try a little bit of awe for early, microbial life. Try some respect; try seeing yourselves from a position of humility, and extend admiration for the genius that we take for granted, but that is absolutely crucial to being who we are.
Lessons from Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson died 198 years ago on the 4th of July, but we really shouldn’t wait two more years to notice, and take to heart, an important argument in political/economic philosophy that Jefferson made in a letter to James Madison dated 6 September 1789.
How to start Participatory Budgeting in your city
In 1989, the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre developed a new model of democratic participation, which has become known internationally as participatory budgeting (PB). Through this process, community members directly decide how to spend a portion of a public budget. In other words, the people who pay taxes (all of us) decide how they get spent.
