Community Development and the Commons
What if community development was actually shaped by all members of the community, not just the most privileged and most likely to profit?
Chris Tittle
Climate Change: Democrats in the Age of Trump
With the odds favoring a Blue Wave in November, it would seem a reasonable time for Democratic candidates and sitting Senators not up for reelection to follow in the footsteps of a political upstart who was courageous enough to take on a powerful incumbent with a message that included climate change and the need to act.
Climate Change in the Anthropocene: An Unstoppable Drive to Hothouse Earth?
Can the global climate be stabilized before runaway change creates conditions that are too hot for human civilization and deadly for most species?
Making Charcoal
With more careful measurements, I or others could see if we could use these techniques on some kind of fast-growing wood, like willow, and see if we could do with terra preta in temperate climates what Amazonian tribes did in the rainforest.
Light Posting 14-17 August
There will be light posting 14-15 August as the co-editors are taking a short break. Normal posting will resume 20th August.
The Fracking Industry Is Cannibalizing Its Own Production, Increasing Spill Risks
So, while the industry likes to claim that fracking poses little risk to the environment, the issue of frac hits appears to raise a whole new set of environmental risks.
Tomato Canning as Protest: How a Community Resisted Corporate Farming
We neighbors have made a commitment to support small farmers, and we’re working it out in this kitchen. We are finding new ways to pass on the old food traditions.
How the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative is Pioneering a Model for Equitable Housing
The East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative is an impressive burgeoning commons legal institution that’s aimed at the decommodification of housing.
The Social Ideology of the Motorcar
The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and nature were never intended for the people.
Peak Oil Review 13 August 2018
Oil prices slid about 3 percent last Wednesday as the trade dispute between the US and China escalated and after Chinese import data showed a slowdown in energy demand.
Beyond Paris: The Next Step, The Earth’s Atmosphere as A Global Trust
This resolution can then become the basis for a treaty—initiated by the developing states– that recognizes the Earth’s atmosphere as a global trust as a critical component of the Common Heritage of Humanity.
Money Through the Looking Glass
Many of the severest crises we’re facing at present – e.g. climate instability, biodiversity collapse, the depletion of vital resources, and the dangerous compromise of ecosystem health through the spread of waste plastic and other pollution – stem directly from economic expansion hitting against ’hard’ limits in the physical world.
