Been Drivin’ for Months Out Here
I need this desert, more than it needs me
its sound vibrating through me
the water churning
rushing down the river bed
but it was only a momentary occurrence
where did it go?
Terry McNeely
The Wisdom of Fungi Inspires Community Conservation
These mycophiles envision a massive shift in our society’s relationship with the more-than-human world—a reknitting of ourselves into webs of life and death, reciprocity and mutual obligation.
The Anthropocene? No. We’re Actually Entering the Ecocene!
If humanity is to survive, it will have to learn how to get in sync with natural systems, culturally and economically, and actively contribute to the flourishing of earthly and human systems in tandem.
The Slow-Motion Equivalent of a Nuclear War?
It couldn’t be more inappropriate to use the term “new Cold War” right now on a globe where a previously unimagined version of a hot war is staring us all, including most distinctly the United States and China, in the face.
Everyone and everywhere is now on the climate frontline
While seeing might be believing, until you’ve actually experienced a climate disaster, it’s still difficult to really comprehend – even for climate activists.
How to live without growth
Reading this back, it seems to me like a programme which, if well articulated, could resonate with people who have had close to two decades of a low growth wage squeeze, and who have watched their public resources wrecked by austerity. (Quite apart from creating a positive story about the response to climate change).
2023 – 2033, The Decisive Decade
I really, really don’t want to waste the next ten years, which may be the most crucial and decisive years of all of human history, collectively pretending that we can avert worst case future climate scenarios by dramatically increasing fossil fuel consumption.
Supporting pollinators
I don’t tell other people what to do very often, but I am telling you all to do this: don’t buy anything with pesticides in its history and do everything you can to make your part of the world a habitat for more than humanity. Because anything less will not support even humans for very long.
On Being Reasonable
A new mass constituency for fundamental change – the new way of reasoning made flesh – is visible amidst the blight and the rot. No member of this constituency would find it reasonable to trade clean air for cheap household items, health and justice for toys and gadgets.
Democracy Rising 30: Wicked Problems, Wise Communities, Part 2
If we set out to design processes to ensure horrible, unproductive conversations that keep us from addressing shared problems well, our current national system would do very well.
Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Action During the War in Ukraine
Small farmers, rural activists and scientists came together to discuss and develop their own proposition for the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, where they suggested concrete measures to help create a fair, healthy and sustainable food system in Ukraine.
Degrowth for Engineering and Engineering for Degrowth
The steady-state/degrowth movement opens the possibility of re-defining “needs” and reorienting engineers to achieving equitable prosperity on our one shared planet.
