Complexity Revisited
Only after accepting that there are hard limits has humanity a chance to change course and adopt to a drastically changing landscape. Whether we can do that, is question to be pondered…
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Watershed consciousness: Is streaming wisdom a community solution?
Watersheds are life-places. They outline and embrace distinct realms. They collect fluid intelligence from animate terrains.
To tackle the cost of living crisis, we must end the Great British Rip Off
For decades, British households have been squeezed by a pincer movement of persistently low incomes on the one hand, and extractive business models on the other. Unless urgent action is taken on both fronts, another ‘lost decade’ looks all but inevitable.
If doomsday prepping has taught me anything, it’s that we can’t survive alone
I don’t want to prepare for the end of the world. I want to prepare for tomorrow, and I don’t want to do it alone. I want to do it with you, my family, our community and a few more people who know a little bit more than me about how things work. Tomorrow is definitely coming and that is all we really know about it.
On the Great Green Wall, And Being Useful
Give that phrase free rein and see what it inspires: “A mosaic of local projects animated by a shared idea.” That may be a motto for the kind of healing that earth and society need today. Not a single solution that scales up, but an ecosystem of related solutions, each unique to its place.
A Case Study of Fossil-Fuel Depletion
I’m calling the analysis ‘a case study of oil-and-gas depletion’. In this post, I’ll analyze oil extraction like you’ve never seen it before — resolved down to the individual well. The results give a fascinating window into how humans exploit fossil fuels.
Throwaway people or valued environmental service providers?
By collecting and separating reusable or recyclable materials of their own accord, unsalaried waste pickers relieve the growing burden of mismanaged municipal solid waste.
Rural gentrification Part I: Of localists and nationalists
When localists born or made embrace or adopt a particular place to live there’s surely no reason for them to base their localism in an inherent lack of openness to people or ideas from elsewhere.
Going to Seed: Excerpt
The 1950s was arguably the decade that best matched a decent standard of living to a sustainable way of life.
The gas price crisis – in a hole, stop digging, here’s how to climb out…
Collaborating with UK research body Nesta, the Rapid Transition Alliance looked at several cases of successful escape pathways from dependence on gas, with all its pollution and price volatility.
Thinking food: What’s ‘healthy’ and ‘sustainable’?
You can be an omnivore that eats grass-fed beef and lamb, or a vegetarian enjoying plain yoghurt or go vegan and veg out on veg – just don’t make your staple diet one of ultra-processed junk food.
Proudly ‘Made in Prison’: Italian co-ops hire inmates to make food and fashion
‘Made in Italy’ labels are coveted by shoppers internationally – Italy is, after all, a famous creator of fashion and food. Could ‘Made in Carcere’ go global too?
