The Nutmeg’s Curse: Review
In the The Nutmeg’s Curse, Amitav Ghosh presents a sweeping historical perspective of the interwoven crises of our times, showing us that our problems are structural, global and deeply rooted.
Eliza Daley
Democracy Rising 13: Getting Started with Dialogue and Deliberation, Part 2
The first step in deciding where and how to start with deliberative dialogue is to ask, what is your environment and how are you placed and rooted in it?
After the Ukraine Invasion: Sobering New Global Energy-Economic-Political Terrain
We are, in short, living through a moment that may be as politically and economically transformative as the World Wars of the 20th century, though with little likelihood of an outcome anywhere near as desirable as the boom decades of the 1920s or 1950s.
A Day at the Zoo Is No Walk in the Park: Humanity’s Overexploitation of Animals and Nature (Episode 49 of Crazy Town)
Join Asher, Rob, and Jason as they sort through some terrible human behavior, suggest encouraging ways to change our views and habits regarding our fellow Earthlings, and try to figure out what the hell “estimativa” is. Warning: animal cruelty is discussed at length.
Developing an immune system for the Transition movement
What changes to ourselves, our groups and wider society would help us to build new systems? Systems that can deliver fundamentally different outcomes to the one that has given us climate change and the many other environmental and social issues that we are struggling with globally.
Russia-Ukraine War and the Changing Energy Landscape
Moreover, some degree of decentralisation of our energy system would contribute to local and regional energy resilience, thus providing a necessary buffer against the many storms of a changing global climate that are likely to prevail upon us.
Putin and the Power of Collective Action from Shared Awareness — Part 2: The Social Grammar of Creation
The future on this planet depends on each one of us — alone and together — and our capacity to realign attention and intention on the level of the whole.
Choosing to “stay with the trouble”: a gesture towards decolonial research praxis
In the midst of growing hunger from colonial academia we reflect on the need to right our relationships with the Indigenous and other racialized peoples with whom we work in Nicaragua.
Native American Storytelling, One Pint at a Time
Crisp and other Native brewers are successfully making space for themselves, their voices, and their stories in today’s craft beer movement through lagers, sours, porters, and ales—to beer drinkers’ delight. These brewers are upholding their peoples’ pasts while looking to the future, glasses raised.
We’re All Ukrainian. We’re All Russian. We’re All Gaian.
Though as legitimate as sending money (or non-fungible tokens) to the Ukrainian government or charities, is bringing Russians and Ukrainians together; is supporting local businesses by both; is using less oil so the Russian petrostate (and all other dictatorial resource-cursed nations) are weakened, and we move to a more ecocentric, less unsustainable civilization.
Spirituality is key to building solidarity: An interview with La Via Campesina’s Nettie Wiebe
But as a matter of fact, in the household and at the community level, it’s very often the case we as women have a very important cultural and spiritual role.
Can Canadian Oil and Gas Really Help Isolate Putin?
As much as Premier Kenney and other oil and gas boosters wish to promote Canada as the happy alternative to the Russian petrostate, Canadian financial institutions and our oil and gas services have already been tied to Russian interests.
