Is Climate Breakdown a White Swan?
So, gaze into the eyes of the White Swan; and act like you have never have before.
Rupert Read
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 90 Sherri Mitchell
Sherri Mitchell is the Founding Director of the Land Peace Foundation, an organization dedicated to the global protection of Indigenous land and water rights and the preservation of the Indigenous way of life. After her previous appearance on episode 68, Sherri returns to the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Embrace Fearlessly The Burning World: Book Discussion
This is, I think, the cure for trauma. Making home. Here and now. Fearlessly. In this burning world.
The grain giants have made a bonanza from hunger. Time to take them apart
As economies tumble, inflation surges and global food prices soar to critically high levels, two sectors seem to have hit the jackpot in 2022 – energy giants and grain traders.
What Are Facts Anyway?
In the world of politics, the request for the facts is as often a prelude to prevarication as it is an entrée to enlightenment. What are facts, anyway?
The Free Agent Beaver
A gentle, intentional and more precise reshaping of language around beavers, and nature as whole, could help reconnect us with the origin of our knowledge of interspecies living — recognizing we are not at the “top,” and that human supremacy is a myth.
Sri Lanka’s untold story of resilience: Sarvodaya’s pathway can work anywhere
The way forward seems to involve re-forming and re-localizing the economic system to create resiliency from the grassroots up, focusing on common needs, rather than having someone else’s idea of “what’s good for us” being imposed from the top down.
Part One: The Rising of Ubuntu.Lab
The Ubuntu philosophy is: I am because you are. We have already been seeing the importance of the quality of relations threading itself through the story of Ubuntu.Lab from day one.
Cecosesola of Venezuela Wins Right Livelihood Award!
You could say that Cecosesola has learned how to ignore the market and set its own terms for providing goods and services.
What’s the problem with taking state power?
Should we maintain independence and function as a critical force outside of mainstream politics, or should we attempt to take hold of the levers of institutional power in order to create change?
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 27 October, 2022
After a relentless four-week climb, U.S. national average gasoline prices have declined, falling 5.4 cents from a week ago to $3.86 per gallon on Monday.
‘The Shock Doctrine’ Naomi Klein (2007)
A landmark book which argues neoliberal free market policies have arisen as a deliberate strategy of ‘shock therapy’, exploiting national crises to enact questionable policies while citizens are too distracted to resist effectively.
