Around the world, Indigenous seed banks are helping to preserve culture, boost nutrition and protect the environment
From Guatemala to Oklahoma, communities are tackling multiple challenges by saving seeds of traditional agricultural crops.
Andrew Wight
Review – Work Won’t Love You Back
Love builds social movements. It is the connective tissue of collective action. And its potential is revolutionary.
Resources for a better future: Slow violence
Slow violence: Suffering, degradation, and pain inflicted upon people and communities by impersonal, dispersed forces; spread across time and space, with no defined point of impact, but nevertheless the result of a perpetrator/s’ actions.
Running out of Ice on the Moon. The Path of “Resource Depletion” in the Memesphere
Thomas Huxley said that “it is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.” It is a sentence that describes the cycle of ideas, — call them memes — which tend to have a life-cycle similar to that of living creatures. They are born, grow, and disappear.
Horizon
Barry Lopez 1945-2020. Of time and human existence, you said
it needs to be redreamed.
Narrating inequality, eliding empire
Not accounting for the historical processes and legacies of colonialism in the construction of inequalities both within and across countries is a fatal flaw in Piketty’s analysis and undercuts the possibility of constructing a politics that could address the problems of our time.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 29 March 2021
Prices were volatile last week as the grounding of the “Ever Given” container ship in the Suez Canal set off a chain of events that wreaked havoc on global trade.
New England Ecology
We need to adapt ourselves to living within these ecosystems again. And to do that in New England, we need to eat the damn deer.
The Tale of the Camden Future Journal
A year ago we shared with you the story of the Camden Think & Do, the amazing community-led What If space created by Transition Kentish Town (TKT) in partnership with other community organisations. This is the story of what they did next, the tale of the Camden Future Journal.
21st century crimes against nature: ecocide as international law
Just as genocide has become the norm in international law, it is time to make war on nature a prosecutable crime also.
Going to extremes
It only took us a century to use up the best of the planet’s finite reserves of fossil fuels. The dawning century will be a lot different.
New Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Climate Action as Congress Weighs Big Infrastructure Bill
Americans support the steps taken by the Biden administration thus far to tackle climate change by large margins, according to a new poll.
