80° North
80° North is part sailing adventure, part beautifully photographed travelogue and part eyewitness account of the environmental threats faced by the Arctic.
Frank Kaminski
We Don’t Live in a World of Cartoon Villains
There are people at every part of that spectrum who care about building local resilience. The Strong Towns approach is radical, but not in a way that fits into ideologues’ narrative boxes.
Independent thinking: Why local businesses need our support this Christmas
So, if you’re planning on celebrating this Christmas – albeit unconventionally – here are some of the reasons why, now more than ever, independent businesses need your support.
2020: The Year Consensus Reality Fractured
In short, prior to the year now ending, consensus reality in the US was already starting to crumble. But 2020 delivered two sledgehammer blows: a pandemic and a polarizing presidential election.
Gifts are a love language. But in the era of climate change, what are we really saying?
We need to build a truly healthy and sustainable economy, where “robust” growth is fueled not only by exchanging new stuff, but by gifts of care, gifts of service, gifts of experience and, occasionally, gifts of truly good stuff.
The Economic Superorganism
Will we run into fundamental limits on resources and debt? Or can human ingenuity and technological innovation continue to overcome any limits we encounter?
Rekindling Family Farming at Owl Oak Acres
People need to eat. People need to have clothes to wear. So it’s important, it really is. For me, it’s about preserving that in whatever way we can.
Solidarity Forever: Initiatives in the Global South as a model of the post-COVID-19 solidarity economy
“Unlike identity, solidarity is not something you have, it is something you do – a set of actions taken toward a common goal…[It] is the practice of helping people realize that they – that is to say, we – are all in this together.”
Climate Policy in the Biden Era: A House Divided
The momentum of the 2018 Congressional midterm elections in which the Democrats gained 42 seats and regained their majority status in the House of Representatives lost steam in 2020.
Should Adaptive Governance be part of the new normal?
Adaptive Governance focuses on the aspects of governance that help to increase societal resilience by strengthening the adaptive capacity of its institutions and actors.
Re-regionalisation as a pathway to diverse regenerative economies
Re-localising and re-regionalising economics — while maintaining international collaboration and fair trade — creates jobs and community resilience.
Alaska Drilling Project Squashed By Court Decision Was Touted By Oil-Friendly Former Trump Official
This week, a federal court overturned the Trump administration’s approval for what would have been Alaska’s first drilling project in federal waters, citing faulty analyses of how the Arctic oil and gas facility would affect the climate and polar bears.
