Psychologists Explain our Climate Change Anxiety

By Kyla Mandel, Climate Progress

Understanding climate anxiety, and how to incorporate psychology into our plans for tackling climate change is growing, but only slowly.

Be the Hummingbird. Be the Bear

By Kathleen Dean Moore, Earth Island Journal

Protecting the children is a formidable responsibility. But it is our responsibility, and we bring to the task a formidable set of powers, honed, sharpened, and passed down mother-to-daughter over generations.

There is an Alternative to Neoliberalism – in Britain and Beyond

By Laurie Macfarlane, openDemocracy

'New Thinking for the British Economy' – a new eBook published today by openDemocracy – brings together leading thinkers to outline the broad pillars of a new post-neoliberal agenda, and the type of policies that are needed to get us there.

What Will it Take to Avert Collapse?

By Richard Heinberg, David Fridley, Resilience.org

In our view, at some point scientists and policy makers must begin discussing the one scenario that world leaders seem to want to avoid at all costs, i.e., managed economic contraction. The irony is that this scenario could reliably cut greenhouse gas emissions and is achievable without appeal to magic (CCS or decoupling).

Maria in Puerto Rico: America’s Least Natural Disaster

By Stan Cox, Paul Cox, Green Social Thought

Heroes don’t blame others when calamity strikes; victims don’t manage to find a way out of their vulnerability. Those who suffer unnatural disasters do both, as required, and that is the way the world will heal.

The Problem with Storytelling

By Daniel Stanley, STIR to Action

In the case of ‘storytelling’, the central issue is an assumption that what is needed to solve our social problems and change the public’s mind is a ‘method’ – that we have all the materials that we need, and all that’s needed to present alternative ideas is a better way of conveying them.

The Flood Washes over us

By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul

Can a “never-seen-before ” weather event that happens every few years really be called “never-seen-before”?  Does a “1 in a 1,000 year” event that happens twice in two years become a warning of something different happening?

Human Predators, Human Prey: Part 3

By Richard Heinberg, Resilence.org

Perhaps seeing the class and power dynamics of society through the lens of “predation” can highlight the machinery of inequality and exploitation, helping us avoid being “preyed upon” and “preying upon” others.

What Barcelona’s Social and Solidarity Economy Means for NYC

By Evie Zavidow, Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City

At the end of June, activists from Mexico, the United States, and Canada gathered at the Fearless Cities Conference—North America’s first ever municipalist summit—to discuss local strategies to build a more just, democratic, and inclusive economy...

A More Inclusive Global Climate Action Summit can Stop us From ‘Losing Earth’

By Danielle Dean-Ryan, Grist

What Rich left out is that the mainstream environmental movement – the ecosystem of big green organizations and funders – consistently excluded and failed to provide resources to organizations representing those most vulnerable to climate change: communities of color and low-income communities.