Colorado River trouble, rainwater harvesting, private wells, and the future of desalination
Preparing for coming water crises may involve water restrictions, conservation, and implementing self-supplying methods.
Jeremiah Castelo
Appropriate Technology, Traditional Cultures and Degrowth
Traditional/original AT, based on communal social arrangements, hand-crafted from local, natural materials that cultures have used since centuries mostly for subsistence purposes, satisfies practically all of the principles of deep sustainability.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 64 Toyia Taylor
Toyia T. Taylor is the Founder and Executive Director of We.APP and is a highly sought-after educator and motivational speaker, who has used her voice to inspire audiences nationally and internationally. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
‘Support for a wellbeing economy grows’
It remains to be seen whether we will be able to effectively tackle the major challenges of nature and the environment in time. But the opportunities to do so will undoubtedly increase significantly.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 13 December 2021
Futures saw their biggest weekly gain in more than three months as the worst fears over the new virus strain have receded.
The Cult of Busy-ness
This mania for wage work is not just killing us and our planet; it is not even generating any true rewards for anyone. It is empty, useless waste. And it certainly isn’t getting any real work done.
The UK’s policing bill will make climate activism almost illegal – just when it’s most needed
The proposed legislation represents a dangerous threat to essential democratic and civil liberties such as the right to protest.
From the dawn of everything to a small farm future: a review of Graeber & Wengrow
In that sense, I endorse GW’s upbeat conclusion that it’s within people’s power to change things and remake their social world – not a power or a social world restricted to particular classes, groups, genders or political ideologies, but one available to everyone.
Notes on Community
Maybe we are just Irish monks in a new dark age emerging, copying texts for a future generation to decipher. Yet involvement in where we live is the tapestry of who we are.
Supply Chains No Longer Fit For Purpose
Farmers in England and Wales want to move away from centralised supply chains where they say they have little influence over prices, not enough connection to consumers, and are not rewarded for delivering positive climate and nature outcomes.
Andrew Nikiforuk on Getting Real about Our Crises
The best response to this constellation of emergencies is to actively shrink the technosphere and radically reduce economic growth and energy spending. Our political class can’t imagine such a conversation.
Noam Chomsky says we have no right to gamble with the lives of climate-vulnerable people: Video
Prof. Chomsky has long argued that the roots of the climate emergency, and of our failure to deal with it, reach deep into the capitalist economic system.
