Find Your Mettle
Have you ever fallen in love with someone who is dying? That’s some of the sentiment of this time. Some of what we know in the world will no longer be here, that’s the world we have created.
Winona LaDuke
Resolving Energy Poverty in Sarawak: Indigenous Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Much of the climate debate centers on targets to cut fossil-fuel use, and this is where the majority of resources, campaigning and media focus their attention. But one of the most cost-effective carbon capture technologies is forests, both leaving existing forests alone and rewilding damaged ones.
In the Age of Extinction, Who is Extreme? A Response to Policy Exchange
We must do all we can to protect the basic environmental conditions that allow humanity to flourish. In this context, Extinction Rebellion’s economic and political program is on the side of reason, and well supported by academic research.
Agroecology as a Pathway Towards Food Sovereignty in Ethiopian Forest Communities
I think that agroecology can be the solution to many woes of forest communities in the southwestern part of Ethiopia for the reasons mentioned above and more.
Why You Don’t Hear Trump or Farage Talking About the Tech Revolution
This is the basic argument of a book I have been lost in for the last 10 days: The Technology Trap, by the Swedish-German economist and historian Carl Benedikt Frey. His basic thesis is that this phase of the 21st century is turning out to be very like the early 19th, in the sense that technology is causing a great crisis of status, security and trust in institutions.
Global Pandemics
The threat of a pandemic is much greater because we refuse to address the causes of climate change. Yes, in the short term we can take steps to survive an emergency, but in the long term the only way to reduce the threat is to address climate change.
Biting the Hand That’s Fed Me
We need to end my family’s way of making money. To dig, strip, frack, mine, and drill is sinful—it is insulting to our intelligence, and it’s an insult towards our better creativity.
Remarkable Communities that Create Systems Change after Disaster
Maybe the best thing we can do in the wake of a disaster is to cultivate closely knit, organized, and empowered communities that are more resilient during catastrophes and better able to demand the resources they need to not only survive those acute disasters, but to rebuild on a more just and sustainable basis.
Redwashing Capital
It’s as if, as environmental humanities scholar Anthony Galluzzo posted recently, humanity, not tech is—ha—the engine of history. Again, it’ll be people, not science alone, environmental scientist Erle Ellis wrote in another Times op-ed, who’ll save us from ecological collapse.
Climate Politics/Capitol Light (18)
The latest addition to President Trump’s reelection campaign’s online store is a 10-pack of plastic straws each emblazoned with “Trump.” The listing features a photo of an unwrapped, solitary red straw, which Trump supporters might want to purchase, it suggests, because “liberal paper straws don’t work.”
Reflections while doing dishes
let’s fight for what’s right not because we will win (and we’ll want to) but because it’s just what we do. Let us let this be okay. I am not hopeless. I am only without the hopes I had.
Three Practices for a Time of Crisis
We have to draw on each other’s brilliance, get together, set aside our egos, listen with our hearts, and imagine something that’s worth getting up for in the morning.
