A Degrowth Housing Vision for Maine
If we are to be intentional about equitably meeting human needs and prospering within ecological boundaries, I believe we need to do the work of imagining that world first if we want to create it.
Patrick Loftus
How can nature-based solutions help cities achieve their climate goals?
Two things are clear from the recent UN climate change and biodiversity summits: “nature-based solutions” appear here to stay, and not everyone is happy about it.
Czech CAP Strategic Plan – Redistributive Payments and the Counter-Productive Tension Between Small and Big
This big vs small debate needs to be sorted out with a more detailed, targeted lens that does justice to the small-medium active farmers, individual or aggregated together in larger organisations.
A Call to Defend Bicycling Infrastructure: Why Are We Neglecting Something So Essential?
In my experience, there is nothing in the human-built environment that can compete with the beauty and wonder of natural landscapes, but if I were to hold one thing in the anthro-environment sacred, it would be the cycling infrastructure.
What is the Debt Ceiling?
The debt ceiling is proof that war is not working. We cannot afford it. We have the capacity for complex problem solving, lets finally prove it.
How Black History Paves the Way for a Just Black Future
What gets us to racial justice is making sure that people have the things that they need to survive and thrive.
Permaculture for Climate Change Resilience in Mexico
Climate change is more than a terrifying crisis, it is an opportunity to restore planetary ecosystems and create healthier, more balanced societies.
The Energy Crisis, Renewable Energies and RR+E
There are already plenty of economic and political actors defending the hyper-technological renewables. The time has come to shift our discourses toward technics that will enable us to change the energy matrix while also achieving an ecosocial transition.
Rain and Heat, Fire and Snow
Over the last months, we Californians have experienced both historic drought and historic rainfall. The world as we knew it really is ending faster than some of us ever expected.
Brexit Bites – Farming in Britain after CAP
On 26 January, the future of post-Brexit agricultural policy in England became clearer with the government’s announcement of six new standards under its Sustainable Farming Incentive.
Oil companies and the windfalls of war
Do oil companies and their investors have a paramount right to profits earned through no sweat of their brows over families who, through no fault of their own, are forced to make decisions between food and fuel, between keeping the lights on and life-saving medicines?
Travels in my Time Machine Part Three: visiting the Cornish beavers of 2030
What would it sound like to live in a future in which beavers were now considered an essential part of our now rapidly-rewilding landscapes?
