KXL Victory Celebrations Roll Across the Great Plains
The Keystone XL victory was sweet for Native pipeline foes in unceded Lakota treaty territory, and a month later, they were still celebrating.
Talli Nauman
Review – Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too
Paint Your Town Red clearly maps new forms of democratic collectivism across the UK. We catch glimpses of an alternative strategy beyond inner party struggles and electoral tactics.
Bristol Bites Back | Fruits & Roots of Radical Resilience in South-West England
We can learn from the communities in and around Bristol who are defying top-down challenges by coming together at local level. Radical approaches to resilience are more important than ever, and bearing fruits for the grassroots.
What if we treated the climate emergency as seriously as we treated COVID–19?
If we don’t take advantage of this moment in a time where we have demonstrated that society can accept deep changes, then we will pass up our opportunity of a lifetime to help future generations.
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.
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.
