Don’t throw the cow out with the feedlot
While there are many environmental and ethical reasons to criticize industrial forms of livestock production, there are no valid reasons to shun the rearing of livestock in general.
Gunnar Rundgren
Textbook Tour: Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet
In this post, I take a bit more time to introduce new elements in the book that Do the Math readers have not seen represented in some form in earlier posts. In other words: what new insights or calculations lurk within the book?
From the Commune to communalism
Why has the Commune inspired so many different movements and tendencies? How could this idea be transferred between so many different social, political, cultural and economic contexts?
Planet Farm
As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. Time to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 22 March 2021
On Thursday, prices suffered their biggest weekly fall since October as signs of flagging demand in key markets halted a strong rally.
What are Regenerative Cultures?
For me, a regenerative culture is a culture that is consciously building the capacity of everybody in a particular place to respond and change and accepts transformation as something that life just “does”.
Movie review: Annihilation
Loosely based on an eponymous 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation centers around a journey to the heart of an anomalous region known as Area X on America’s southern coast.
The fat-takers cross the oceans
From its beginnings more than five centuries ago, European colonization has been based on an unsustainable exploitation of resources.
Resilience and Change in the Age of Pandemic
Here was an environmental challenge for which we had no precedent in our lifetimes. Would we persist and adapt? Would we be resilient through change?
Introducing ‘Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet’
The first thing is to announce the launch of a textbook at eScholarship ‘Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet: Assessing and Adapting to Planetary Limits’ that is free to access electronically
Barn Club: Excerpt
A craft that is rooted in its materials inevitably places you within the natural world rather than being simply an observer of nature. You develop a personal relationship with the landscape and the lives of animals, insects, birds and plants within it.
Kate Raworth: Doughnut Economics at the city scale
And here’s the question that we invite every ambitious city to ask itself. How can our city, be a home to thriving people, in a thriving place, while respecting the well-being of all people and the health of the whole planet?
