Psychologists Explain our Climate Change Anxiety
Understanding climate anxiety, and how to incorporate psychology into our plans for tackling climate change is growing, but only slowly.
Kyla Mandel
Be the Hummingbird. Be the Bear
Protecting the children is a formidable responsibility. But it is our responsibility, and we bring to the task a formidable set of powers, honed, sharpened, and passed down mother-to-daughter over generations.
National Energy Board Pushed to Correct Errors in Original 2016 Trans Mountain Report
Now that the Federal Court of Appeal has ruled on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, the National Energy Board should correct “serious mistakes” in its original 2016 report, says economist Robyn Allan.
Improving Air Quality with Clover
Greater action to address the root causes of air pollution from the agricultural sector is needed. To face the growing environmental crisis caused by nitrogen pollution there needs to be a fundamental shift in the way that we produce food.
Ecosocialism’s Greatest Challenge: The Color-Line and the Twenty-First Century Ecoleft
The Solidarity to Solutions Week of Actions that took place in San Francisco this past week exemplified these gains for the climate movement. They were not “feel good” exercises.
There is an Alternative to Neoliberalism – in Britain and Beyond
‘New Thinking for the British Economy’ – a new eBook published today by openDemocracy – brings together leading thinkers to outline the broad pillars of a new post-neoliberal agenda, and the type of policies that are needed to get us there.
Competition, not Consumption, Drives Global Destruction
“We have to reduce consumption and resource use”, is a statement that is gaining some traction. Considering that all that is consumed has to be produced and vice versa it is a logical claim that we also have to reduce production, but that seems to be a lot more provocative.
When We Look at the Crisis Rationally, the Only Logical Response is to Declare a Climate Emergency
People engaged in the climate debate are often bewildered by society’s lack of response. How can we ignore such overwhelming evidence of an existential threat to social and economic stability?
Plastic Pollution: The Age of Unsolvable Problems
Does that mean that the problem of plastic pollution unsolvable? No. It is, actually, a minor problem in comparison to other, much more difficult problems we face.
What Public Banks Can Do for Food Systems
A public bank is a government-run financial institution that takes banks’ power to create value through lending and turns that power into a public utility, lending at low interest to meet public needs.
Why Growth Can’t Be Green
Ultimately, bringing our civilization back within planetary boundaries is going to require that we liberate ourselves from our dependence on economic growth—starting with rich nations. This might sound scarier than it really is.
Too Angry to Govern?
Without compromise, the nation will continue to see years of politics at the extreme—periods of doing and undoing much as we see now in Trump’s dedication to erasing Obama’s environmental legacy. I ask you–is this any way to govern the greatest nation on earth?
