The World at 1°C — February 2017
We need a vision of prosperity that is ambitious, bold, accessible and attentive to local concerns. Climate justice movements have always known that to address the climate crisis would require addressing inequality.
DemandClimateJustice Staff
On International Women’s Day, Honoring Women Land and Human Rights Defenders
The violation of women rights and land defenders speaks in a profound way to the derangement of our times, and to the dangerous worldviews of domination and exploitation, which sit at the root of both degradation of Earth’s natural systems, and violence against women of the world.
Little Free Library Launches ‘Action Book Club’ to Inspire Community Service
Recognizing the power of Little Free Libraries to transform communities, the Little Free Library organization recently launched the Action Book Club. The book club is like any other book club in that it brings people together to read and discuss books — what makes it unique is that it encourages its members to take a positive action in their communities.
Ecosystem Change: An Exhilarating Year in Review
In a year chock full of surprises, contradictions, warning signs, and increasingly vocal calls for systemic change, it is easy to overlook the many ways that new economic paradigms and practices are cropping up in everyday awareness as an essential vector of the immense transitions underway.
Letters to a Young Farmer
Today, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture released Letters to a Young Farmer, a book which compiles insight from some of the most influential farmers, writers, and leaders in the food system in an anthology of essays and letters.
Thermodynamic Model of Oil Depletion Sparks Controversy
A report on the world’s oil depletion problem published several years ago by an obscure association of anonymous consulting engineers and professional project managers is suddenly coming under fierce criticism.
The Curse of the iPad Stalks the Land or In Praise of Boredom
It’s as though every waking minute has to be filled with some kind of stimulation, the “intensification of nervous stimulation” which Matthew B Crawford in The World Beyond Your Head argues is increasingly underpinning our world.
Climate Ecoforestry
Climate Ecoforestry is a viable methodology for retracing our way back to the Holocene relatively quickly. Permaculture and ecovillage design provide the means to implement and to take that to scale rapidly enough to matter.
Food Jobs Grow Sunny Side Up
The sun is going to power up what is now Alberta’s Number One industry — food production, processing and preparation — which was the topic of my keynote speech at an Edmonton conference called Cultivating Connections: Alberta Regional Food System Forum 2017.
Tapping into Ocean Power
The oceans of the world are a vast unexploited source of clean, reliable and predictable renewable energy. Could this energy help replace fossil fuels and be a solution to climate change?
The Greek Left Takes Stock of the Commons
Since the left cannot necessarily advance its larger agenda of social justice, fairness and human rights through the state – subservient as it is to neoliberal circuits of global power – it should entertain how the commons might open up some new solution-sets.
Teaching Resilience and Sustainability to Young People
I’ve found that teaching resilience and sustainability by these new definitions doesn’t come easily. It’s rarely about teaching information.
