How climate activists won the American Climate Corps
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.
Alessandra Bergamin
What Choice Do We Have in 2024 If We’re to Save the Planet?
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.
Reporting a World-in-Crisis: The Axial Crisis of Perception and Beyond. Part 2
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.
Cheaters!
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.
India is fighting heatwaves with solar cycle tracks
This innovative new solar cycle track in Hyderabad City offers one way in which less polluting and healthier transport might contribute towards a rapid transition, despite the growing physical challenge of living with climate change-driven heat.
A common enemy: colonialism and imperialism
If imperialism is what happens when empires expand then colonialism is how they do it.
No Frost
What is small and unimportant in this culture will be its heir. The children will survive and will be concerned with tomatoes and potatoes and frost… and stories…
Small farms don’t produce 70% of the worlds food – but they could produce all
The key message is that the potential of small farms for global food production is determined by economic conditions rather than biological, ecological or agronomic limitations
Frontlines Resistance Against Fossil Fuel Expansion in the Balkans
The Adriatic Climate Camp created a vibrant training program and community that pulled off two major direct actions against the natural gas industry and remains resilient in the face of police brutality.
Holding the Fire: Episode 3. Fighting Ecosystem Collapse with Aslak Holmberg
It’s challenging to hear about collapsing ecosystems and the global climate spiraling out of balance, but by acknowledging this reality, we are able to orient ourselves and respond accordingly to the crises. On that note, I was excited to speak with Aslak Holmberg, an Indigenous Saami who lives on the Deatnu River, on the border of Norway and Finland.
Disastrous capitalism in Morocco in wake of earthquake
The term ‘neoliberal earthquake’ may seem like a cliche, but in the context of the recent natural disaster in Morocco, it really does encompass some of the defining elements of contemporary capitalism.
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.
