Fermentation as Metaphor: Excerpt
The only thing that makes do-it-yourself fermentation radical is context: our contemporary system of food mass production, which is unsustainable in so many ways.
Sandor Katz
A debt reckoning is unavoidable — will activists seize the moment?
These crises offer a vivid illustration of the cruel nature of elite rule and expose economic myths that have long convinced everyday people that their deprivation is inevitable. There is an opportunity here to open up space for a new society to emerge. Activists must seize it.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 19 Alnoor Ladha
Alnoor brings spirituality and big picture thinking to today’s conversation on What Could Possibly Go Right?
Stephen emails David: a collaboration
Hopefully these thoughts and linked writings will help with your own plans to grasp the opportunities of rapid changing context, contribute to minimising the damage in the local and wider world, and find the wisdom to recognise what we cannot change and deal with the resulting grief.
Harnessing Food Waste to Empower Communities in Brazil
In 2011, Tchelly gave her first course on how to cook with food scraps to six other housekeepers in her slum, which led her to create a social enterprise called Favela Organica.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 19 October 2020
Futures posted a small weekly gain on signs that demand is picking up in China even as a new wave of coronavirus infections casts a shadow over the global market.
Caring and Thriving: The Social Security Engendered by Commoning
So there is a direct link between economic crises and the crisis of our social security system. This should scare us all. We know there will be another crisis.
These Indigenous educators are bringing Western and Native science together in the classroom
By meshing laboratory science with Traditional Ecological Knowledge, college professors aim to cultivate better environmental decision makers — and decisions.
How one Swedish city grew the commons by foodsharing during the pandemic
Solikyl aims to create the latter, a food commons, where food is seen as a shared resource through social practice rather than as a private good.
Structural violence and the automobile
The car remains a weapon of choice against anti-racist protestors as the uprisings against systematic racism ignited by the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor stretch into their fourth month.
American environmentalism’s racist roots have shaped global thinking about conservation
American environmentalism’s racist roots have influenced global conservation practices. Most notably, they are embedded in longstanding prejudices against local communities and a focus on protecting pristine wildernesses.
Can we predict collapses before they happen? What we learned from the pandemic
The overshoot of human activity is driving the planet from the stability of the Holocene to the instability of the Anthropocene.
