Timothée Parrique: “Degrowth: Slow is the New Cool”
What is degrowth, and how will it help define our future?
Parrique explains how the path to societal degrowth might unfold and the social and physical obstacles we may encounter on our way there.
Nate Hagens
Rural Europe Takes Action | Creating Alternatives, Creating Community
Cargonomia officially was launched in 2015. It came out of the idea: how can we connect the farm, bike messengers and a bike workshop?
Why UK energy bills are soaring to record highs – and how to cut them
In this article, Carbon Brief sets out how and why UK household energy bills are due to reach historically unprecedented levels this winter, shows how the gas-fuelled increase in bills will push household energy costs towards £200bn and looks at the options to manage the crisis.
Botany as archaeology, to stop a lithium mine
In 2021, I heard that a lithium mine was being proposed within this sea, in a region where I had been told the wild gardens were still largely intact. Pee hee Mu’huh, also known as Thacker pass, exists in the northeast region of Northern Nevada, close to the Oregon border.
Protect This Place: Italy’s World Heritage Beech Forests
Stories about these forests and villages can help connect people to these old-growth systems and their irreplaceable worth and inspire people to continue to work to protect them.
Class struggle or degrowth?
Knowledge may not be power, but should the future ‘become what it must’, the process of building power will have been one of building knowledge.
Top Economists Hail Chilean Constitution as ‘New Global Standard’ on Climate, Inequality
A group of world-renowned economists and social scientists published an open letter Wednesday hailing Chile’s draft constitution as a transformative document…
The Status of Global Oil Production (Part 3)
This post in the series covers oil production in the Americas.
Beyond rescue ecomodernism: the case for agrarian localism restated
Anyway, that’s the ground where I stand: convinced of the need for ruralization and an orderly turn to agrarian localism so that it doesn’t happen by default in a disorderly way…
Essential services
Why can’t we quit fossil fuels tomorrow, and what implications does that have for our way of life given that we are already in a climate emergency?
Our imaginations can help create new climate possibilities
Though fictional, the book raises a very real question: Can the human capacity to imagine alternate climate futures actually help generate new, more hopeful realities?
Plunging Into the Polycrisis
The more I listened to participants, though, the more I realized perhaps most accurate word is “embrace”, for is it really possible to manage this polycrisis?
