Factcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high
The UK’s high electricity prices have become intensely political, with competing claims over the cause of rocketing bills and how best to get them down.
Simon Evans
Thomas Crowther — No Economies Without Biodiversity: Why Our Markets Rely on the Complexity of Nature
In this episode, Nate is joined by ecologist Thomas Crowther to discuss the critical importance of biodiversity as an intricate web of life that supports all other living beings, not just through the sheer number of species, but because of the complexity of interactions within ecosystems.
(Not Quite) Tinder for New Activists: “Why don’t we already have this?”
All of US is poised to play matchmaker for these two groups – newly mobilized and seasoned activists on the one side and, on the other side, the organizations that could provide a constructive outlet for their energies. Many hundreds and thousands of matches will contribute to a critical guardrail against Trumpism.
Eye of Newt
I’m not saying you can wave a wand, click your heels three times, wink and nod, or any such quick remedy to pop yourself out of modernity. It may take generations, and I’m plenty guilty myself. But it’s time to start considering other ways of being—through the eyes of a newt.
Crazy Town: Episode 104. Bunkers, Bazookas, and Bespoke Moats: How to Be Safe in an Unsafe World
The world has gone bunking mad. The bespoke security industry is burying bunkers stocked with arsenals of automatic rifles and surrounded by flaming moats. Is there a better way to prepare for the polycrisis, the zombie apocalypse, or whatever hard times are on the horizon?
Letter From The Farm | Community Farming in Ireland
Community owned farms may not be able to answer every question posed by a dysfunctional agri-food system, but they can offer insights and realistic alternatives to many of them.
Information Burnout: Are We Past Peak Sensemaking?
In this week’s Frankly, Nate reflects on the increasingly wide variability in people’s ability to consume and metabolize information on the converging crises actively playing out in our world.
Who Heals the Earth’s Healers? Ways to Avert Burnout for Environmental Advocates
Take this lesson to heart: If the healer can’t function, the healer can’t heal. Nature offers us so much for our efforts to protect it. Let’s make sure our engagement with nature is as strong and balanced as our dedication to protect and heal it.
Limits to Growth was right about collapse
The only question is whether we manage degrowth or just let it happen to us. This isn’t a neutral question. I know which one of these is worse.
Complexity, energy, people and inequality
Summing up, I believe there are many indications that the ever increasing complexity clearly shows diminishing returns and that people will turn their backs on global capitalism and modernity (whatever that is).
Anthropocene: A Dispute of Words, A Dispute of Worlds
So yes, perhaps, with the Anthropocene, it is not something that will end—but something that will begin.
How Some Independent Radio Stations Avoid Sounding Like Corporate Drones
Local radio stations and digital networks of independents are keeping “human-driven, anti-algorithm expression” alive.
