Jason Kenney’s Government Denounces the Bigfoot Family
Jason Kenney’s spin shop the Canadian Energy Centre (otherwise known as the War Room) has stuck another foot in its oily mouth.
Andrew Nikiforuk
Zero by 2050 or 2030? 1.5°C or 2°C? Overshoot or not? Demystifying carbon budgets.
The Breakthough Briefing Note on “Carbon budgets for 1.5 & 2°C”, released March 2, explores some of the myths and realities about the Paris Agreement targets and the associated carbon budgets, and what it would really take to achieve them.
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 5)
The body politic was sick long before the virus arrived, already at risk of collapse under the weight of its elite hierarchies. When its fever breaks, we must learn the right lessons about how to overcome the underlying issues that threaten its very existence.
Resources for a better future: Permaculture
Permaculture has transformative potential when practitioners move away from promoting it as a depoliticized set of ecological design practices and principles.
Relative Status and Environmental Breakdown, or… the Story of Bartenders and Bird Feathers (Episode 33 of Crazy Town)
How can the climate disaster and humanity’s overall sustainability crisis be explained by 80s sitcom characters, birdbrained hats from the late 1800s, and a dubious new use for scratch-and-sniff technology?
Carbon offsets offer a fantasy of capitalism without crises
On some level, people want to believe in carbon offsetting because it offers to rekindle capitalism’s promise that we can enjoy consumerism without being too concerned about ecological crisis, by delivering a seductive story of power and status in which somebody else cleans up the mess.
Collective learnings from the 2020 Latin American Degrowth Forum
Facing the threat of an “economic reactivation” that reproduces and deepens the ideology of infinite economic growth and its impacts, it becomes necessary to make visible, share, and co-create alternatives to our current model of civilization.
Share Catch Chile’s waste reduction bus – how behaviour change, new infrastructure and different business models are cutting waste
This is the story of the potential for a rapid transformation of the waste crisis illustrated by one social enterprise in Chile, and its work to encourage people in communities and in industry to produce less waste and to recycle more.
How Sustainable is High-tech Health Care?
Health care is one of the most important economic sectors in high income countries, but its environmental footprint is underreported and not often considered.
COVID-19 is here to stay. Now we must redesign our economies around it
We need to think about COVID-19 as a relatively long-term problem, rather than something that can be dealt with as a short, sharp shock.
In Search of Mycotopia: Excerpt
The average person can be forgiven for a lack of fungal literacy. After centuries preoccupied with plants and animals, the institutions of natural science have been slow to prioritize fungi, and few of us receive even a basic education in their biology or ecology.
Painting the world green
The fate of the United States has never been more linked—virally, environmentally, economically, and existentially—to the fate of the rest of the world.
