We started a farming club. Why you should start one too
We are long overdue for a return to growing our own food, and the farming club offers a promising way to reconnect with that tradition.
Jason Bradford
Interview with filmmaker Josh Fox: Meeting mass migration with ‘Welcome Tables’ (not walls)
For the 100th episode of The Response Podcast, host Tom Llewellyn interviewed Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Josh Fox about the climate crisis, human migration, and welcoming people with compassion.
Beyond the supermarket: What Greece’s alternative food networks teach us about degrowth
Thessaloniki’s grassroots food networks offer a glimpse of what food systems organized around care and democracy, rather than profit and endless growth, can look like.
The case for smartphones as a contributor to falling birth rates
Among economic stress, affordability, and climate change dread, is smartphone use another factor in the downward trend in fertility rates?
Affordability, not scarcity, is the real energy crisis
In this post, I examine differences in economic behaviour by comparing two types of periods: those with low energy affordability and those with high energy affordability.
Donald Trump gives decline new meaning
Donald Trump’s America is undoubtedly going to give imperial decline new meaning, while just one major power seems to be on top (so to speak) of the situation in any way whatsoever. And that power is, of course, China.
Why I paint endangered species as sacred icons
I started painting endangered species the way I once painted saints and angels. Each painting became a kind of prayer and an appeal to our capacity to widen our love and awaken our conscience.
The Australian oyster reef revival
A successful restoration project on the Adelaide coast is raising hopes for the future of a long-lost ecosystem.
Inside the struggle to dismantle America’s greenhouse gas data
New accounts show the oil and gas industry trying to weaken methane reporting while saving the federal emissions system it relies on.
Are we in a multipolar world yet?
Everyone is now on board with the theory of multipolarity. But now that it’s mainstream that unipolarity is dead, it’s time to ask: is the world actually becoming multipolar?
What fighting back actually looks like
In an old cottonwood tree in Arizona, a small group of Americans are doing what lawsuits and letters couldn’t.
Four food safety laws under threat from the ‘Save Our Bacon Act’
For several years now, a few Republican lawmakers and their Big Ag allies have pushed federal legislation to effectively preempt, or block, state food safety and animal welfare laws.
