Agriculture’s Greatest Myth
It is agribusiness that most aggressively alleges that all other forms of agriculture are inadequate. This Malthusian spectre is a good story, it’s had a tremendous run, but it’s just not true.
Jonathan Latham
Climate Policy in the Manchin Era: Say It Ain’t so Joe!
With the Senate evenly divided, the loss of one Democratic vote with no Republican replacement changes the balance of power.
How a Seattle Neighborhood Confronted Food Insecurity in the Pandemic
Over the past year, more than 20 food supply organizations have contributed in one form or another to providing hot meals to residents through the community center.
Defibrillating democracy
In case you’ve not come across citizens’ assemblies, they are gatherings of people (usually 100-150), selected to be a true snapshot of the place in question (say, a country or city) based on demographic criteria such as gender, age, income and education level.
Reclaiming the forest: The Indigenous struggle for land rights in Kenya
The Sengwer have lived in the Embobut Forest for centuries, but they lost a vast proportion of their territories to British colonial administration in the early 1900s. Since, their land rights have been limited and precarious…
Resources for a better future: The commons
Autonomy refers to the capacity of a given system to self-manage. In other words, the more autonomy that a commons has, the less dependent it will be on external inputs.
The Right to Remain Silent
It’s just one point of view of one morning of one rebellion, it’s just one drop in the narrative ocean, but my blood ran so cold when I saw the bill recently proposed to further strengthen the police and weaken the people during protests that I had to warm it up again somehow.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 12 April 2021
The markets posted their worst week since mid-March amid concerns that rising global coronavirus cases slowed economic recovery.
The Needful Garden
Our systems do not meet our needs. None of them are designed to do so. It is time to make new systems.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 35 Trae Crowder
Hailing from Celina Tennessee, Trae Crowder is a standup comedian, writer, and self-proclaimed “Liberal Redneck.”
Trae addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” through his socially aware comedic view…
Reclaiming the Desert
Because there is no other option and no better deal for the natural capital, soil, biodiversity and climate. Our task is to accelerate this transition and to avoid doing even more damage.
A Sense of Déjà Vu
Once again, only a handful of people are warning that petroleum is a finite resource and that fracking was a temporary fix at best, and all right-thinking people dismiss them as cranks.
