Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Eliza Daley Kayaking with Lambs is a collection of essays mostly pulled from Brian Miller’s richly authentic farm journal, A South Roane Agrarian, where the author and sybaritic farmer in residence deals out eloquent vignettes of living and working on an East Tennessee farm.
Consider all of this, then, the deepest form of human madness and just hope that somehow, from the Middle East to Ukraine, Beijing to Washington, we can wake up to what we’re doing to ourselves before it’s too late.
Therefore, honesty is the only thing I demand of both political decision makers and the scientific experts.
On this episode, Nate is joined by energy industry professional Joris van der Schot to explain the basics of oil refineries, their limitations, and other cultural narratives about energy.
But once car-dependent regions and neighbourhoods are established, is it possible to retrofit them, in whole or in part, to escape this car-dependency?
Just how much has the extractivist growth mindset come to dominate Phoenix and other cities in the desert Southwest of the United States? Prepare to turn your indignation meter up to 11 as Jason, Rob, and Asher consider desalination, pipelines, and the folly of pursuing infinite growth in a dry climate.
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.
Now is the time for the real leaders to stand up and work on a European food policy that goes beyond chatter. If they fail, we will have seen just a taste of what is to come for our food system.
Last month, President Joe Biden announced the launch of the American Climate Corps, or ACC — a program that will train some 20,000 young people in careers in climate and clean energy.
When it comes to the 2024 elections and their critical importance to keeping global temperatures below any safe threshold, there is no choice other than voting for Biden or whoever the Democrats put forward for the presidency as well as lawmakers at the local, state, and federal levels. The alternative is enough to make you weep.
For most of the time, voices seeking to raise the alarm and respond to immanent processes of unfolding world collapse, are unheard in the mainstream news media.
It would serve us to better understand the spirit of the rules by which the rest of the community of life plays, and work our way into compliant behaviors.
