The Deadly Sin of the Human Species
Humanity as a whole must accept its sin in order to seek to overcome it through mechanisms to stop the imbalance that, as we have seen in previous essays, is the result of industrial civilization…
Victor M. Toledo
Inflation is squeezing workers. We need a £15 minimum wage
It’s time for some bold thinking on how to fairly protect those in work from the worst of its impact. A £15 an hour minimum wage by 2024 should be the target.
Of climate crimes, community conflicts and carbon cowboys
A small farm future is not an ideal I’m championing, although there are aspects I do try to speak up for. Rather, it’s a coming reality that I’m trying to analyze in order to make the best of it.
Wasted Lives
If we accepted this as our single, solitary chance to live, then we might do better at living. We might focus on life, on the here and now, on being.
One of Spain’s governing parties adopts degrowth
That we have to live within the limits of the planet was already clear; now we are going a step further and proposing that degrowth is a reality and that together we have to design a political roadmap so that this degrowth does not fall, as always, on the most vulnerable.
The Other Reason for Putin’s Rush to War: Russian Oil Dependency
These skirmishes illustrate how deeply interwoven petroleum politics has become with the culture and geopolitics of Russian’s foreign policy. This is not the Cold War. Oil dependence is Putin’s bane, and ours.
Dirt to Soil: Excerpt
In the everyday work of my farm, most of the decisions I make, in one way or another, are driven by the goal of continuing to grow and protect soil.
Dangerous roads are no accident
If you watch network television you can see auto companies spending a lot of money making our roads more dangerous.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 7 June 2022
Headlines for the week of May 30 – June 6
The Ignorance of Wealth
Powerful and wealthy people are just not smart enough to make these changes.
Luckily, there are plenty of smart people out there doing what needs to be done. We just need to look to them.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 82 Betsy Taylor
Betsy Taylor is president of Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions LLC. For over thirty years, Betsy Taylor has built a solid reputation as a philanthropic advisor, social change leader, motivational speaker and problem solver. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Hazel Henderson – rest in the Universe
Hazel Henderson, wonder woman of green, science-based investing, the love economy, and the golden rule society, went virtual (her term for died) on May 22, 2022, at home, and very much at peace.
