Sailing on Planet Titanic
As I sit down to write this, April 15, 2023, it is 111 years to the day since the RMS Titanic sank beneath the waves of the North Atlantic.
Patrick Mazza
Shell admits 1.5C climate goal means immediate end to fossil fuel growth
Growth in oil and gas production ends immediately in Shell’s latest pathway for staying below 1.5C, new Carbon Brief analysis reveals.
Garden planning from the book cellar
For those who don’t know where to start or who just want more tips I have some recommendations on books that I use every year in planning and implementing food production.
It’s getting to look a lot like degrowth: Part 2
Voluntary degrowth, I fear, is beyond our leaders’ capacity to imagine and beyond our society’s capacity to implement.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 98 Kristin Ohlson
Kristin Ohlson is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. She shares her latest thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right?
Global Polycrisis as a Pathway for Economic Transition
As the global polycrisis worsens, transformational change will be significantly encumbered by crises, breakdown, and collapse scenarios.
Unite to Win: A groundbreaking coalition of groups to join ‘The Big One’
It is possible to change society in a way that is just and fair, to put care for people and nature at the forefront. It is possible to rediscover our collective power and change the course of history together. To make this a reality, this moment calls for a mass movement to stand together and become impossible to ignore.
Turning a Pain in the [Coal] Ash into an Asset
What if encapsulated coal ash could assist solar and wind energy resources to avoid their intermittency problem?
Remembering Jerry Mander
We too have had our great dreams, but now the corporate-run media, the corporate world, have them for us. Part of what Jerry Mander is crusading for is to encourage us to have great dreams again.
In the Face of Cascading Crises, What Can I Do?
If you have the capacity, I encourage you to revisit your values, review your past actions, and commit to doing something more this year. Any action, no matter how small, that’s congruent with solid values will make a difference.
Saying NO to a farm-free future
The time has come to announce my new book, Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future: The Case for an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods.
Will the West Turn Ukraine into a Nuclear Battlefield?
While the UK’s decision to send depleted-uranium shells to Ukraine is unlikely to prove a turning point in the war’s outcome, it will have a lasting, potentially devastating, impact on soldiers, civilians, and the environment.
