The Next Regeneration
Dobson’s work is an early step toward finding a way to grow food that restores, rather than exhausts, the earth. “We’re not all the way there yet,” he said. “Humanity has yet to discover 98 percent of what’s under our feet.”
Greta Moran
One Cheer — More or Less — For the Green New Deal
In framing the alternatives, I start from the assumption that our primary purpose is actually building the post-capitalist society, and that our engagement or lack of engagement with the state is a secondary course of action whose main purpose is to create a more conducive, less harmful environment in which to do the building.
Peak Oil Review: 14 May 2019
Uncertainty was the watchword of the week as oil traders juggled the faltering US/China trade deal, increasing tensions in the Middle East, and falling US crude stocks.
Bringing Wendell Berry (and Business) to Sterling
Well, however one construes it, keeping in mind that rebuilding a sense of place will probably also mean rebuilding a sense of mutual obligation between different types of places is an important lesson, I think.
These Indigenous Women Are Reclaiming Stolen Land in the Bay Area
The idea behind establishing a land trust, which was sparked after Gould attended a meeting with existing Native-led land trusts in 2012, was for these Indigenous women to create a land base for their community.
This Just in: Trump Says Climate Change is Real (humor)
@realdonaldtrump, reversing years of denial, declared that climate change is real and it will make America More Greater.
Escaping Extinction through Paradigm Shift
This is the conversation we need to begin having, from our boardrooms, to our governing councils — for those of us who have woken up to what is at stake, the real question is, how can I actually mobilise to build the new paradigm?
Tackling Inequality, One Pair of Lederhosen at a Time (Episode 10 of Crazy Town)
Chuck Collins joins Asher, Rob, and Jason in Crazy Town to describe his startling journey from undercover trust fund kid to tireless campaigner for economic equality. Together they examine why Richie Rich, Donald Trump, Scrooge McDuck, and Jeff Bezos keep getting richer.
We’re Failing Our Kids
Video and transcript of an emotional talk given by Post Carbon Institute’s Executive Director for other parents to respond to the climate emergency.
Community-Led Solutions in Housing Crisis
Eugene is charting a new path for community outreach, using its downtown areas as places to address housing challenges, head-on.
4 Simple Guidelines from the Fibershed Clothing Guide
Inside our own closet is one place we may begin to make changes that will have lasting impacts on our biosphere, climate and personal health, and for this reason we created the Fibershed Clothing Guide to share a menu of actions and options.
A Convenient Untruth
Virtually all of these papers and the FAO’s figure of 14.5 percent are flawed because they employ a formula for equating the climate impact of methane emissions with that of carbon dioxide— through the unit known as “CO2 equivalent “— which is highly misleading.
