They are welcome here
In the end, people here understand that they have more in common with a tailor who has arrived in a dinghy than they do with the people at the top who have left them high and dry.
Bridget Chapman
Standing Up for Freshwater Biodiversity
Nearly two dozen experts from around the world have issued a call to action to protect freshwater biodiversity.
Feeding Ourselves 2023 | Fertile Ground for System Change
ARC2020 and friends were in Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Ireland on March 25-26 for the annual Feeding Ourselves gathering, which takes food and farming as an entry point for moving towards fairer, more caring communities.
Record clean-power growth in 2023 to spark ‘new era’ of fossil fuel decline
The power sector is about to enter a “new era of falling fossil generation” as coal, oil and gas are pushed out of the grid by a record expansion of wind and solar power, according to new analysis by climate thinktank Ember.
Escape from Overshoot: Excerpt
The immediate cause of overshoot is the combination of the massive increase in the number of people and what we produce made possible by the rapid and grossly uneven experience of economic growth of the past two hundred years.
Hope from the Seed of Trauma
What if, 50 years from now, instead of looking back and yearning for how things were in 2023, we find ourselves in a more equal, tolerant, and just society living more harmoniously with the rest of life on earth?
Kim Stanley Robinson: “Climate, Fiction, and The Future”
On this episode, Nate is joined by climate science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson to discuss how he contributes to the discussion of climate and pro-social changemaking through writing.
Why do we grow food?
We have to produce more to feed a growing population – but what if it is the other way round?
A lexicon of time
Richard Fisher’s book The Long View: A Field Guide was published this week—but to mark the occasion Richard published on his blog an interesting lexicon of phrases about what he calls “long-terminology”.
Climate Action Epistemology Part 4: Technological Potential in the IPCC Mitigation Report
There is good reason to expect that the transition process will be more difficult than we tend to hear about, and that technological solutions, while essential, aren’t enough to address the climate crisis.
Universal public services: the power of decommodifying survival
The power of universal public services is that we can improve people’s access to goods necessary for decent living, with provisioning systems that require less aggregate energy and material use and which allow us to accelerate decarbonization.
Crazy Town: Episode 68. How Boomer Politicians Found a Third Way to Phuck Over the Working Class
Meet Bill Clinton, who converted the Democratic Party into slightly less loathsome neoliberals. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
