The Red Deal: Indigenous action to save our Earth
The Red Deal is a manifesto and movement — borne of Indigenous resistance and decolonial struggle — to liberate all peoples and save our planet.
The Red Nation
5 things you need to know about measuring sustainability
For the last four years, The SFT has been working on the Global Farm Metric (GFM) – a harmonised measure of sustainability that has the potential to unite food system stakeholders, such as farmers, retailers and banks across the globe and re-situate agriculture as a solution to climate change, biodiversity loss and declining public health.
Invisible workers, invisible systems
We have to make profound changes to the way we all live, and that includes work. The problem is getting a toehold on the system whose parts are mutually reinforcing and and locks in destruction with its incessant expansion.
Can the Resilience Movement Learn from Thacker Pass?
If there were a time to allocate some of your resilience work toward the global and national scene, that time might be now, and the place might be Thacker Pass.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 37 Alan AtKisson
Alan AtKisson has been working professionally in sustainable development since 1988 and has been recognized internationally as a pioneering innovator and thought-leader in the field. Alan addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 27th April 2021
Prices fell last week with spreading coronavirus cases in countries such as India tempering optimism around positive signs out of the US and Europe.
The Evolution of Social Power
From laws to police and prisons, to armies and weaponry, to fame and high political office, to paychecks and taxes, to debt and credit, to advertising and public relations, to propaganda, to household and workplace gender dynamics, to organizational chains of command, to extremes of wealth and poverty, people have found endless ways of modifying one another’s behavior to suit their wants and needs.
Lies, damn lies and statistics: moderating the tyranny of numbers
Metrics are gamed in order to increase (or decrease) a given number so as to support an argument, boost a political view, trigger a linked payout or justify a proposed policy or course of action.
The Yurok Tribe Is Using California’s Carbon Offset Program to Buy Back Its Land
What is most important to Myers, though, is that the Yurok’s participation in California’s cap-and-trade program has strengthened tribal members’ relationship to their traditional territory.
Earth Day 2021: Awakened Not Woke
It’s Earth Day 2021, and I hope the world’s leaders will boldly go where none have gone before. I am optimistic.
“It’s More A Call To ‘Armies’ Than Arms”
There are Black Swans that you can’t do anything about because you don’t know they’re going to happen; but the Grey Swans are predictable – not in their dimensions or timing exactly; but we know there’s going to be another food price crisis, a catastrophic climactic moment of some sort, or energy problems: things like this are going to happen.
Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
Collectively we three authors of this article must have spent more than 80 years thinking about climate change. Why has it taken us so long to speak out about the obvious dangers of the concept of net zero?
