Taking on the tech titans: Reclaiming our data commons
What strategies, structures and institutions are needed at national and international levels to confront Big Tech and advance digital justice?
Kirstie Crail
Shifting baselines and coping with planetary change
It is not easy today to take an interest in the future of the planet, and especially in human civilisation, without becoming bewildered.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 26 Julian Brave NoiseCat
Julian Brave NoiseCat is Vice President of Policy & Strategy for Data for Progress and Narrative Change Director for the Natural History Museum. Julian provides his insight on What Could Possibly Go Right?
Make markets matter
Stand-alone independent food markets strengthen all sorts of community relationships and support local food economies.
Slowing Down Fashion with Italia A Collection
By learning about sustainability at FIDM and being introduced to Fibershed’s perspective— that’s really grown my design philosophy. Since then, I have been making zero-waste products made only with sustainable materials.
Embedding the economy with care
What we urgently need is an economy that replaces the universal of profit with a universal of care, both for each other and the natural world which keeps us alive.
Going nuclear
Here, I continue with my theme from this post about energy futures, particularly the notion that we can transition from our present high energy, high carbon civilization to a future high energy, low carbon one based around nuclear power.
Transforming life on our home planet, perennially
With nearly eight billion people on the planet, we aren’t going back to hunting and gathering. But around the world, often under the banner of agroecology, people are using modern science and traditional knowledge to develop ways of farming that are less ecologically and socially destructive.
Bioregional Regeneration for Planetary Health
Bioregional regeneration is about refitting human patterns to the bio-geo-physical patterns through which life creates conditions conducive to life.
How we went from “makers” to “trash-makers” – and how to get back
Why do we have so much stuff? Why is it so hard to find good stuff? And when our cheap stuff breaks, why is it so hard to fix it?
For Australians Looking for Political Will on Climate Action – It’s Found at Local Government
Ten months since our major cities were blanketed by smoke from the Black Summer bushfires and nine months since the National Climate Emergency Summit considered the radical emergency footing that is now Melbourne’s COVID-19 reality, a quiet suburban revolution is taking place.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 7 December 2020
Prices rose for a fifth straight week with support from the OPEC+ deal and hopes for another round of US stimulus.
