Baby bees love carbs, experiments show – here’s why that matters
By considering the nuances of bees’ dietary needs, we can design nutritionally balanced seed mixes that help pollinators shore up our ecosystems and food supplies.
James Gilbert
Transforming Work, Reimagining Education
A proper reorganisation should be based on this understanding of work as just one of several realms of life; a life brimming with moments of connection, rest, labour, contemplation, education, and idleness.
France | Building Rural Resilience From The Ground Up
Nos Campagnes En Résilience is a new project to build rural resilience in France, coordinated by ARC2020. It’s about rural communities finding ways to live and grow with respect for people and nature.
The anti-colonial politics of degrowth
What degrowth adds is the assertion that growth in high-income nations is not required in order to achieve a flourishing society. What is required is justice.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 38 Glacier Kwong
Glacier Kwong is a political and digital rights activist born and raised in Hong Kong. She is founder of the NGO Keyboard Frontline and is a Research Fellow at Hong Kong Democracy Council in the US. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
New Booklet on False Solutions to Climate Change
Starting last summer, people from several organizations have been working to update a booklet on false solutions to climate change (I was involved with this effort for awhile and wrote the first draft of a couple of the sections).
Op-ed: Flood survivors find common ground in a divided nation
Today, Americans have sorted ourselves into communities defined by geography, demography, ideology— and opportunities to communicate across those divides are exceedingly rare. But the shared trauma of flooding offers an opening.
A Doughnut Economy Please—But Hold the Agnostic Frosting
If we are to be taken seriously about changing the goal “from GDP [growth] to the doughnut,” we better understand how that doughnut translates to GDP terms. Taking a “growth-agnostic” pill won’t cut it.
Musings on Human Supremacy, Religious Patriarchy, and Industrial Ecology
If human institutions fail to move from dominion to partnership, from patriarchy to solidarity, there can be no social/ecological justice, and we might as well forget about exploring other planets.
Is green growth happening?
So, is green growth happening? The answer is no, not really. As of today, economic growth is still a vector of resource use and environmental degradation.
The single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth…
The single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth is to stop thinking there’s a single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, or that bang for your buck metrics of this kind are helpful in formulating how best to live.
The Ecological Gardener
A wildflower meadow can be grown anywhere and be of any size, but why not start with the grassy sward many of us already possess: a lawn?
