Indigenous Rights and the Fight for Life at Standing Rock
With the announcement that the Dakota Access Pipeline will be re-routed, the water protectors at Standing Rock might have won a battle but they have not yet won the war.
Eryn Wise
Water Song: Indigenous Women and Water
Water is life and needs to be respected. For the Indigenous people in Canada, there is a reciprocal and unique relationship with water.
Peak Oil Review – Dec 12 2016
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including: -Quote of the week -Graphic of the week -Oil and the global economy -The Middle East and North Africa -China -Russia -Nigeria -Venezuela -The Briefs
An Act of Remembrance
With Vince Guaraldi in the background, we wrote and addressed our annual Christmas cards last night. An old-fashioned exercise that echoes in our warm kitchen with news of the past year.
From Oil Age to Soil Age
To put it another way: modern citizens today use more energy and physical resources in a month than our great-grandparents used during their whole lifetime.
Growthism
Of course we all know at some level what a “healthy shopping season” is really healthy for: the economy–that thing, that thing which giveth, it is true, but also taketh away, and is still the only game in town.
The post-fact world and the need for a new consensus
Debate is no longer a means to find the truth by testing ideas against the questions and criticisms of other, it is mostly propaganda designed to win no matter what the truth is.
How Two Tribal Women Are Fighting to Protect the Arctic From Oil Drilling
The Gwich’in people of Alaska and Northern Canada have fought for three decades to protect the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling and other threats.
The 2016 Elections: 6 Takeaways for the Economic Cooperation Movement
The election of America’s most prominently parasitic and malicious real estate capitalist to Chief Executive says “this is what happens, Larry.”
How Standing Rock Has Changed us
Here are just a few things that have shifted in our world because of the extraordinary Native-led uprising at Standing Rock.
Black Food Sovereignty: Urban, Rural, and International Connections
Food sovereignty and not merely security, land ownership not tenancy, and thriving not just surviving are the goals of an Earthcare Coalition mobilizing around the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent.
The Commons: A Quiet Revolution
In the contemporary political landscape, the commons blur the lines of the ‘private’ and ‘public’ sectors as we have known them in the last century.
