By Permaculture Association Staff, Permaculture Association
Biotime, or biological time, runs at a very different pace and rhythm to human time. It can be observed by recording events in the natural world. These can be as varied as the day the first spring bulb opens, the last frost before summer, or the first sighting of a species of bird or insect in a new habitat.
By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
By now you have probably read about the so-called “tech backlash.” Facebook and other social media have undermined what’s left of the illusion of de…
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
I don’t think I’m being too Spenglerian to express the fear that in present troubled times, when the modernist state-industry-warfare nexus is manifestly unraveling, something similar could easily take hold again and do the same. And that, I submit, is a thoughtstarter, not a thoughtstopper.
By Tegan Tallulah, The Climate Lemon
The fact that climate change is mostly caused by the rich and yet the poorest, who have done least to cause it and have the least resources to respond, will be hit most seriously by the damaging impacts – is uncomfortable. But it is important.
By Jake Marble, Resilience.org
We may think like the wild, or we may think like the tamed. We humans, products, beneficiaries, and dependents of the web of life from which we were spun, can continue our collective course on this tangential path from the natural processes, limits, and communities of this planet.
By Russell Arben Fox, In media res
I don't think there is a duty to vote, and I wouldn't support compulsory voting, even if that was a political possibility in this country. I do think voting is responsibility though.
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Network
My main take-away from the 2018 IPCC report is that there may still be time, but only if we can bring about a deep reimagining of what the world could be and how it might work. As Daniel Aldana Cohen put it, “we are only doomed if we do nothing”.
By Karen Lynn Allen, Musings
On the 157th anniversary of the Great Beaufort Skedaddle, it's worth remembering that sometimes doubling down on one's way of life brings about catastrophe from which there is no recovery.
By Matías Bianchi, Cristian León, Open Democracy
All alarms have gone off in Latin America’s democracies. Bolsonaro's triumph in Brazil is the consolidation of an emerging global trend which uses social aversion to politics to establish authoritarian and often openly anti-democratic alternatives.
By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul
The illness of American life is our ignorance of the energy we consume, the products made from it, and the luxuries we take for granted. It's time to wake up and stop dreaming.