By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
For the foreseeable future, we will have our hands full getting past the ugliness of cultural disintegration. We’ll need whatever morsels of beauty we can preserve or produce just to keep ourselves sane.
By Richard Heinberg, Ensia
Art can help us cope with the implications of our collective challenges. It can help prepare society for a possibly traumatic future. It can give voice to suffering and loss, helping people deal with life’s inevitable stress. And it can also offer beauty, which can be especially important in hard times.
By Wendy Wheeler, Dark Mountain Project
I regret the lazy oversimplifications of our time. As our world becomes ever fuller withaccessible information, ever more porous, ever more pressing with demands for our attention, so our subtler semiotic capacities appear to stall before the task. Our attempts at interpretation and meaning-making are overwhelmed: more information means less meaning.
By Nancy Averett, Resilience.org
Two California artists are creating public sculptures that heal damaged ecosystems and eventually disappear back into nature.
By Stuart McMillen, Stuart MacMillen Blog
The story of peak oil presented as a graphic novel.
By Lucy Neal, Transition Culture
The evidence people are reading a book you’ve written is enough to make you swoon. Like a dish you’ve spent time cooking that proves to be edible and delicious - times about a million.
By Greg Dalton, Jonah Sachs, Climate One
Stand-up economist Yoram Bauman uses humor to explain carbon tax, cap and trade and the ‘Five Chinas’ theory.
By Leo Stout, Center for a New American Dream
You have immense powers." That’s one of the messages of Post Carbon Institute's Public Energy Art Kit (P.E.A.K.) project.
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
Can the climate change story be told better in pictures? Two recent books attempt just that.
By Asher Miller, Steve Lambert, Resilience.org
I usually hate this kind of thing...I did it because I’m excited about the world we can create.
By Leslie Moyer, Energy Reality (P.E.A.K.)
Our request is simple: we are asking YOU — activated citizens, community organizers, students, as well as anyone who cares about our future and our relationship to the natural world — to help us get the word out in a BIG way.
By Peter Hanlon, Leslie Moyer, ecocentric
Read on to learn about Leslie Moyer’s work with artists and energy, the undeserved un-sexiness of energy conservation and a particularly mind-blowing uphill car ride.