Star Parasites: Carbon-Based Life and the Future of the Universe
Nowadays, we are obsessed with the idea that we need to “produce energy.” That is, of course, a wrong way to express the concept.
Ugo Bardi
Public Gardens in the Time of Contagion: An Ark of a Different Sort
This is a story about the critical role of public gardens and the pandemic-induced recession’s impact on them—as seen through the experiences of the Green Ark Botanical Garden Foundation (Foundation or Ark) in Costa Rica.
Credibility from Apparent Hypocrisy
But next time someone deploys the hypocrisy weapon, think about flipping the script: perhaps it exposes just how hard it is to change and only reinforces the weight of the alleged hypocrite’s message.
The What Next Summit: a pivotal moment for social justice in Transition?
How do we turn those visions from rewilded imaginations into reality? How might ideas of initiatives for environmental sustainability and social justice drive transformative collective action?
7 Things I Learned by Collaborating with Indigenous Wisdom Keepers
This model of cooperation is something that can be applied to any other skill area—from architecture, to agriculture, to medicine-making, to river restoration, and fire literacy—to amplify Indigenous voices, so that we can support each other more effectively in building a future that works for all of us, for generations to come.
Creating a tropical paradise closer to home
Imagine a tropical paradise alive with plants and animals, all living in perfect harmony and producing plentiful food for local people. You might be imagining somewhere like South America, but this story is actually set in Devon, England.
Elizabeth Heyrick’s Consumer Campaign to Abolish Slavery
Elizabeth Heyrick teaches us that it is precisely the personal responsibility fostered by the exercise of consumer democracy which most effectively leads to political engagement and participation.
US Climate Policy Caught Between Two Worlds—Are We Smarter Than Buridan’s Ass?
Are fossil fuels and clean energy alternatives equally attractive choices as Aristotle’s food and water, Al-Ghazali’s dates, or Buridan’s bales of hay?
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 43 Richard Heinberg
Richard Heinberg is an author, Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute, and widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost educators on the need to transition society off fossil fuels. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Life After Fossil Fuels: A Reality Check on Alternative Energy
This book makes the case that the deadliest crisis facing our civilization is energy decline. Peak oil production may have already occurred.
Pond Life Revives Hope for On-Farm Wildlife
Where ponds are cleared, wildlife and biodiversity return rapidly to farmland. Plants recolonise within just 6 months, creating rustic oases amidst bland fields of monocrop.
Back To Normal? Is That What We Really Want?
If we do have that revelation, there’s a chance that from the ashes of our current rapacious culture will be born an ecocentric, just, and restorative one.
