The Divestment Movement’s Big Month
Investors, foundations, universities and governments pulled their assets from fossil fuel companies in record numbers in October.
John R. Platt
Inflationary pressure in the US
We cannot continue consuming cheap goods imported from countries and then criticize them for burning fossil fuels. It’s time to wake up and recognize that living on renewable energy will require a totally different lifestyle from the one we’ve been living.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 61 Miki Kashtan
Miki Kashtan is a “practical visionary”, exploring the application of the principles and tools of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to social transformation. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
How to Grow Mushrooms on Woodchip
Growing mushrooms on woodchip can be done under trees in the field or garden, or you can put the chip into containers and grow either inside or outdoors. Scale of production, available facilities, and time at one’s disposal are things that might affect your choice of system.
Our new autumn journal Dark Mountain: Issue 20 – ABYSS is now here!
And the suspicion arises that, behind all these manifestations of extraction, lies the same emotional and metaphysical vacuum – a hole in the heart as long and wide as the Berkeley pit: unappeasable, irrational, and ultimately incapable of ever being filled.
A Revolution of the Heart
We need to move from civil disobedience to political disobedience.
We need to move from captured corporate representative democracy (democracy in name only) to the real and deep democracy of deliberative peoples and citizens assemblies.
Confronting the Changing Climate: COP26 – Scientists’ Warnings into Action, from Local to Global
We call on all scientists to sign this paper, and act in a united effort to avoid a catastrophic collapse of civilisation.
Blah, Blah, Blah, the Climate Blame Game
It may take a bit to integrate better all the moving parts—or, as a friend and colleague says the community needs to slow down to go faster. Will a better alignment and integration be worth it?
Think of it this way. To change the power, you must be the power.
Democracy Rising 3: Deliberation and Ecological Resilience
The world is heating up; parts are it are already ablaze. But democratic deliberation isn’t futile fiddling—it’s a precondition of dousing the flames.
It’s not too late, but it’s over: how COP26 changes everything
So my plan for meeting the climate apocalypse is to keep thinking, keep writing, keep farming and keep being hopeful (but not ‘optimistic’) as best I can. What’s yours?
The elites can’t stop climate change, but democratic cities can
It is time for the radical democratization of cities, in order for a meaningful and resourceful plan for action from the grassroots to be initiated. Anything less than this is simply a waste of time.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly: 15 November 2021
Prices notched the longest stretch of weekly losses since March, with President Biden keeping investors guessing about whether he’ll act to tame higher energy prices that are driving a surge in inflation.
