A new book tells us what is really behind the ‘K-shaped recovery’
The Asset Economy, a new monograph published by Polity Books may help shed some light on the economic structures that could provoke this unusual K-shaped economic phenomenon.
Neal Rockwell
The Collapse of Rhetoric. Can Economists and Ecologists Talk to Each Other?
At the time of Seneca, rhetoric was perhaps the main skill of a man of culture: the capability of debating was valued and practiced.
Regenerative Agriculture part 2 | A Soils-First Farming & Food Policy
Regenerative agriculture seeks to re-integrate knowledge of the soil food web and the biology of soils into agricultural thought processes and decision-making, and to apply this knowledge to both short- and long-term decisions.
The Edges of the Earth
If human ingenuity were a story, one of its main motifs would be transportation. Creatures of land by birth, we have transcended our limitations, reaching across air and water, beyond our own biosphere.
Can Big Tech Save the World? A Review of Gates and Kolbert
Today our situation calls to mind the myth of Icarus as much as that of Prometheus. When will the cycle end? Will it be when we finally get the technology right? Or when nature says, ‘Enough’?
Regenerative Agriculture part 1 | Resources Must Be Replenished
Regenerative Agriculture is a system of farming principles and practices that increases biodiversity, enriches soils, improves watersheds, and enhances ecosystem services.
Why ‘rebound effects’ may cut energy savings in half
In a new paper, published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, we examine the economy-wide impact of these effects and find they may erode more than half of the potential energy savings from improved energy efficiency.
Global Coup d’État: Mapping the Corporate Takeover of Global Governance
Corporations have stepped beyond lobbying governments. They are integrating in policy-making at the national and international levels.
Andreas Weber on Aliveness and Interdependence
If I may crudely summarize Andreas’ thinking in a sentence or two: relationality, aliveness, subjectivity, and wholeness are central to the functioning of healthy living systems.
The value of biodiversity
It came as a bit of a shock to open a government news release that reads more like an editorial in the Ecologist, but I think it’s an indication of the speed at which the landscape is changing here.
From the arable corner to the recaptured garden
So, to escape the arable corner, the forms of state coercion associated with it and the ecological problems it creates I argue that our best chance is by becoming our own arable farmers, or rather mixed-arable gardeners…
Baking Homemade Bread Becomes a Public Good
For today’s mutual-aid societies, the catch line is often “solidarity, not charity.”
Community Loaves, too, draws on the model of neighbors helping neighbors.
