How capitalism started, and why it still matters
In fact, capitalism isn’t particularly about markets or selling things. This needs stressing over and over, because powerful narratives to the contrary repeatedly fool us into supposing otherwise.
Chris Smaje
Covid-19 has shown us that good health is not just down to biology
Our society’s recovery from this disease should be centred on building more equal, resilient societies, where people in all parts of the world have access to both protection from the disease and access to research developments.
Perilous Bounty: Review
Tom Philpott has a book out that examines the impending crises in US agriculture caused by short-sightedness, a relentless profit motive, and the power of corporations over US farm policy.
Bill Vitek: In Pursuit of Better Agriculture (and a Better Society)
About 40 years ago, Wes Jackson at the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas asked this radical question: Why can’t we have perennial grains? Since grains make up about 65% of worldwide calories, why not develop perennial versions?
Musings on a soufflé dish or why capitalism has no space for love
That is why there is no room for love in capitalism. You cannot love a thing and at the same time be indifferent to its demise.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 28 December 2020
Weekly prices declined for the first time since October, as a new coronavirus mutation spread through parts of the world and poses risks to energy demand.
Podcast from the Prarie: Methodism in my madness
In this episode of “Podcast from the Prairie,” Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen discuss the role of religion, both in Jackson’s life and in our human future.
Gaia is Responding to our Actions. Will We Act Differently in Time?
It does not much matter if you devote yourself to deep adaptation or to slowing the collapse—both are essential and both are part of our bigger collective struggle. The only thing we cannot afford is no corrective action at all.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 28 Douglas Rushkoff
Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. Through this lens, he answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Light posting over the holiday period
We wish each and every one of you a safe, healthy, and resilient holiday celebration time, whenever, however and wherever you may be celebrating this year. May 2021 bring better tidings!
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 21 December 2020
Prices rose for a seventh straight week as efforts to pass another US virus relief package added to optimism that the vaccine’s rollout will provide a boost in demand. Futures rose 1.5 percent in New York on Friday, extending this week’s rally to over 5 percent.
Have yourself a merry little agrarian populist Christmas
This is the field of agrarian populism, where both the greatest challenges and the greatest opportunities lie in the fact that so few of ‘the people’ in so many countries today are agrarians.
