Wolfgang Knorr – Why voting Green won’t solve the climate issue
There is no stopping climate breakdown without stopping moral decay and the death of democracy.
Wolfgang Knorr
What’s the difference between Indigenous nations co-managing or co-stewarding their land? A lot.
Co-stewardship is a broad term that describes agreements made between federal agencies and tribal nations to hash out shared interests in the management of federal lands. Co-management refers to a stronger tribal presence and decision-making power.
Ed Conway: “Material World: The Key Resources Underpinning Modern Economies”
Today’s conversation with economics journalist Ed Conway focuses on the six essential resources that underpin our modern economies – sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium – and dives into the (often unseen) environmental and human costs of extracting them, as well as the surprisingly fragile global supply chains they fuel.
Will Anytown, USA become a ghost town?
Perhaps if we can rewrite the source code at the core of business, we might have a chance at turning the tide on the massive crises facing us today.
N-wrecked
The way that humans have messed with the Earth’s carbon cycle rightly figures as planetary eco-problem No.1 in public debate, but the way we’ve messed with its nitrogen cycle probably ought to get more attention than it does.
Population “What If” Games
Near-term population decline via falling fertility may be the most humane way to gift an intact world to countless lives of the future. Ideally, the 8 billion humans around today live full lives and spare future generations (not just humans) of a dismal fate by dialing things down.
Crazy Town 92. Escaping Otherism: Why Dr. Seuss Could Never Find a Rhyme for Genocide
Jason, Rob, and Asher try not to other one another as they explore the roots and consequences of othering, and the ins and outs of belonging as a key organizing principle of society.
Gleanings of Post-polycrisis Survival
While the polycrisis will emerge differently and at different times in different parts of the world, we will all experience it, so it’s worth reminding ourselves of this and mentally, personally, and communally preparing for it. As well as fighting to help navigate through it with our humanity intact, and our understanding of our dependence on Gaia heightened.
What is nature worth? Indigenous economics says it is far beyond any monetary value
On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, Indigenous economist Rebecca Adamson argues this financialization of nature comes with perverse incentives and fails to recognize the intrinsic value contained in biodiversity and all the benefits it provides for humans. Instead, she suggests basing economies on principles contained in Indigenous economics.
Letter from the Farm: Strong Roots for a Surer Future
Investing in a small family farm is much more than an economic consideration: it can help to revitalise an entire village. Rural communities are rooted in multi-generational family farms.
Navigating the Energy Transition: Renewables Abound, but Grid Challenges Loom
Fast-forward: If many of these young individuals translate anxiety into action, this could initiate a great global fossil-hunting stampede, triggering a rough rocking motion for the fossilized apparatus of governments still beholden to fossil fuel dependencies and obsolete grids minus a plan.
A Systems Approach Towards a (More) Sustainable Future: An Invitation to Academia
There are over 200 million college students in the world. What are we teaching them and what curriculum will be more appropriate for the world we’re heading into? It is my hope that many professors, post-docs and university affiliates around the world experience this synthesis.
