The black elephant in the room
The Black Elephant In The Room, in this case, is that nothing grows forever. Unlike what our system – the Elephant in The Room – pretends to do, which is designed to do so and doesn’t know how to slow down.
Juan Bordera Romá
Cooler, Cleaner Megacities, One Rooftop Garden at a Time
Gardening on a rooftop is more than just a clever use of limited space, though. Rooftop gardens have substantial positive effects on air pollution and city temperatures.
US Climate Policy: A Nation at War with Itself (Infrastructure)
This is the first in an occasional series on US climate policy at a time when uncivil wars are raging within the two major political parties and, indeed, the nation itself.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 49 John Wood, Jr.
John Wood, Jr. is a national leader for Braver Angels, a former nominee for Congress, former Vice-Chairman of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County, musical artist and a noted writer and speaker on issues of political and racial reconciliation.
He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Covid-19 and the Changing Climate: Seeking the Word
The prospect of getting back to normal, of being released from the current peculiar restricted condition is suddenly almost as overwhelming as was the initial lockdown.
On The Animal Trail: Excerpt
To ‘enforest ourselves’, we will need an acrobatics of the intelligence and the imagination, and an indefinite, delicate suspense, as we try to translate what those plants and animals do, what they communicate and how they live.
Upon Consideration of a Lone River Birch
Every tree matters—even stunted ones living out just a shadow of their tree nature—so get your shallow tray out of the house when you can, or, if possible, find ways to plant your roots in the ground outside.
Protecting 30% of the Earth by 2030 would threaten Indigenous peoples
To ensure a healthy, just future for all life on earth, we must embrace decolonization as our guiding environmental policy.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 19 July 2021
Prices declined the most last week since March as a resurgence of Covid-19 threatened the outlook for near-term global fuel consumption.
Further Exegesis of A Man
We need to reclaim our true past and create a future in which the care that nurtures life is the only work necessary, where money and hierarchies and all the other fancies of A Man are thrown on the compost heap, and where all work is done by and for all people.
Elinor Ostrom’s Essential Lessons for Collective Action: Excerpt
Earth’s climate system has the attributes of a common-pool resource. The climate system’s limited ability to absorb greenhouse gas pollution makes it a depletable resource. I
No Time for Castles: From Closed to Open Democracy
Open democracy is a system in which power is equally distributed, or equally accessible at the very least, to ordinary citizens. E
