Yes, White-Tailed Deer Populations Should Be Managed
Like it or not, we are now the apex predators. Because we manage the land and its creatures, I believe we have the responsibility to do so in an ecologically beneficial manner.
Adrian Ayres Fisher
Why Local Solar Costs Less
Our returning guest in this episode, energy modeler Christopher Clack, says according to his recent modeling, that investing more into local solar will deliver more public benefits than investing in utility-scale projects.
Fire and water: Mutual aid in the aftermath of the Texas freeze
In the latest episode of The Response Podcast, we hear Chad’s perspective of what worked and what really didn’t, as well as how some local organizers plan to be even more prepared for when the next disaster strikes, which most likely will be sooner rather than later.
‘The future sucks’: why the work you love won’t love you back
In Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone, Jaffe draws on her deep experience reporting on workplace organising in the US to explore why love is not a necessary component of our jobs…
Who Grew Your Clothes? Soil to Soil Textiles – Part 1
Whilst awareness around the environmental impacts of global food systems and their sustainable counterparts appears to be growing, there is a widespread disconnect of perception between the state of the environment and the garments we clothe ourselves in.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 39 Victor Lee Lewis
Victor Lee Lewis is a progressive life coach, trainer, speaker, and Founder of the Radical Resilience Institute. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Bright Green Lies: Review
It’s been a year since ‘Planet of the Humans’ caused the leaders of climate campaigns to go into heated meltdown. By comparison, this film throws them an even greater challenge to try and respond to.
What roles for markets and for the state when climate risk is existential?
The climate policymaking orthodoxy is that markets can efficiently price and mitigate climate risks, but this blog argues that when risks are existential — that is, a permanent and drastic curtailing of human civilisation’s future development — then the damages are beyond calculation.
The Last Mile
And there is no shame in leaving the marked trail of the race you started to follow a better course. There is only shame at not running your best race. For yourself and for Gaia.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 10 May 2021
The struggle between the spreading pandemic in the less developed world and the revival of economic activity in the US, Europe, and China continues to keep prices volatile as they move steadily higher.
Agroforestry: An ancient practice with a promising future?
Traditionally defined as the growing of commercially productive trees and agricultural crops on the same piece of land, agroforestry is, despite its new-found fame, a very old practice – though one which has sadly been almost entirely lost from our landscape.
Brave New Normal
Cultivating cooperative, self-sustaining communities can undermine destructive economic systems and offer meaningful responses to social-ecological crises in the wake of the pandemic.
