Review: Regenerating Life
As more and more people are learning, there’s another side to the climate that’s been overlooked, one having less to do with what we put in the air than what we do to the land and this film bring it beautifully to life.
Rob Lewis
In praise of my co-workers: (or – all I know about chickens in 12 parts)
The chickens I have known have never disappointed me. They are the cornerstone of my no-tech, no expense, off-the-grid farm backup system.
Access to Land: Looking to Europe to Secure Local Farmland? Part 1
It is impossible to focus on the re-territorialisation of food systems without looking at how urban communities access agricultural land in rural areas.
Yanis Varoufakis’s “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?”
Now, in Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, Yanis Varoufakis – the “libertarian Marxist” former finance minister of Greece – makes an excellent case that capitalism died a decade ago, turning into a new form of feudalism: technofeudalism:
Climate Politics Today: The View from Washington
The most serious question is: how can anything get done without compromise? Democracy doesn’t work without it, government fails to function, and it’s the people that pay the price.
Community Care After the Maui Wildfire
Three weeks after the fire, when asked what people in Lāhainā, Hawai‘i, needed the most, Chris Mangca didn’t answer with a list of supplies. Instead, he said, “They need a break, love, some happiness, to see that people care about them.”
United by the flow of the River Exe
Last month, the River Exe came alive with song, night swimming, stories and a wild salmon run for the first Festival of the River Exe.
Luke Gromen: “Peak Cheap Oil and the Global Reserve Currency”
On this episode, financial analyst Luke Gromen joins Nate to discuss how the availability of cheap energy has underpinned our current financial architecture and expectations – and what peak cheap oil implies for the future.
The convergence: climate and economy become one
At a minimum, we must align the signifiers of economic success with known ecological indicators — and this is just the first step on a long, complex realignment. If we fail to undertake this journey, we will be stuck paying for our own apocalypse.
The wholeness of the word: ‘Regenesis’ as myth, Part II
Myths speak through individual authors and are given definition by them, but they’re painted on a bigger canvas than any one person.
Are WE Lucky?
When contemplating an action, think to yourself: “Would this likely be a net benefit to US (the community of life), or a net harm?”
How heat pumps became a Nordic success story
Policymakers in countries where heat pumps are still in their infancy do not have to start from scratch, but can learn from – and build on – the heat-pump success story in Norway, Finland and Sweden.
