Climate Change and Energy Transition: The 2023 Scorecard
The numbers are in, and it doesn’t look good.
Richard Heinberg
Antarctica’s Looming Threat
The threat of invasive species is only one of the mounting pressures facing Antarctic wildlife, including warming waters, melting sea ice, ocean acidification and pollution. But broad conservation actions, like increasing marine protected areas, could help on all fronts.
“Runner Beans Not Runways” Forest, art and community in Heathrow’s flight path
Georgia Woods, one of the founders of Grow Heathrow told me that the project “brought the ‘yes’ of Transition together with the need for resistance, linking the yes and the no”.
Carbon Farming: A Sustainable Agriculture Technique That Keeps Soil Healthy and Combats Climate Change
How one North Dakota farmer saved his farm and livelihood using carbon-friendly farming methods.
Community Economies: Reframing Wealth Building
“How can we change the system?” There are different ways one can answer this question. One way that, at least to me, is increasingly becoming the silver bullet for large-scale transformation is Community-Based Wealth Building.
Global Energy Transition: Mining Waste Management
Over the past decade, the global mining industry has become intensely focused on reducing risk to continue to qualify for financing and particularly to retain their social license to continue operation. Here, we will look a little more closely at another troubling aspect of how we expect to leave behind the fossil-fuel economy: total material requirements and waste.
Waymaking for Cultural Change
As we desire to heal the world the world truly desires to be healed, but, as Moffat found, the immensity and complexity of the mountain makes climbing it both difficult and perilous. Nevertheless the lover of the mountain accepts the challenge and, with skill, experience, tools, perseverance, and help from her friends, she reaches the summit.
Peak pork and the recoupling of people and livestock to the land
In the longer term, agriculture and food systems must be organized in a similar way as natural ecosystems where most, but not all, nutrients are circulating within the ecosystem.
Humpbacks Rebound in 20th-Century Whaling Hotspot
In summer, South Georgia island’s Cumberland Bay now sees whale numbers that rival the early days of whaling.
Reasoning with Robots
Don’t let the robots (robot-minded humans) do this to us. For any proposal, ask: how does this dial back human overshoot, restore ecological health, make more room for the community of life, starve the beastly elements of our society, and set us on a path for actual long-term sustainability.
Degrowth: A Hard Truth
Perhaps what the sustainability movement most needs is not more alternative products and technologies, but simply a confrontation with growth – something much less material. Thus, just talking about degrowth constitutes bold environmental action.
Climate Politics: The View from Washington January 9, 2024
Congress is back from its holiday recess. Although it’s a new year, Capitol Hill politicians are facing many of the same old problems—beginning with efforts to avoid a partial or complete federal government shutdown.
