Global emissions must drop by 50% by 2030

By James R. Martin, The R-word

My point is that if we're going to really have an energy transition it will have to be primarily a transition to a much less energy intensive economy and material culture.

How to escape the slow cancellation of the future

By Gerry Hassan, Open Democracy

We have to dare to dream. To conceive and build different futures is central to being human. We cannot let the real ‘cancel culture’ steal our future.

A Review of ‘The Age of Low Tech’ by Philippe Bihouix

By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium

The Age Low Tech is a funny, informal, practical, angry, and subtly deep book. Released in 2014, its discussion of energy crisis and supply chain fragility feel prescient to 2022.

Protect the Flame

By Otto Scharmer, Medium

It’s these fields of deepened connection — of radical shared presence — that can support the healing and can function as the soil and seed for a new civilization to emerge.

Douglas Rushkoff: “The Ultimate Exit Strategy”

By Nate Hagens, Douglas Rushkoff, The Great Simplification

Douglas and I discuss how human behavior interacts with technology and how we have arrived at a place with enormous wealth and income inequality just as society is rapidly approaching biophysical limits.

The Power Podcast Episode 1: Introduction to Power

By Richard Heinberg, Melody Travers, Rob Dietz, Resilience.org

If we want to address this problem and reduce the chances of a chaotic collapse of society, we will have to confront our overuse and abuse of power.

We Are the Middle of Forever: Excerpt

By Kyle Powys Whyte, Stan Rushworth, Dahr Jamail, Resilience.org

Kinship is a certain type of relationship that we all have with each other. No matter what society you live in, there’s going to be some degree of kinship.

Havana: Its low-tech internet, its urban cultures, its informal networks

By Caroline Pultz, Corentin de Chatelperron, Low-tech Lab

In a world where the digital footprint seems to be increasing every day (it will have tripled in 15 years according to the French GreenIT), we were looking forward to this stopover to study what is called “the low-tech Internet”.

Entering the Pluriverse: Beyond universal blueprints of good life and sustainability

By Amerissa Giannouli, Resilience.org

Imagine a society where bottom-up, community initiatives and actions based on people coming together to reflect and practice their visions are promoted more compared to individualistic, self-absorbed behaviors of success

There is no ‘Safe Haven’ from Climate Change

By David B Lauterwasser, An Animist’s Ramblings

I would rather live in a society that remembers a time before the overabundance of fossil fuels that caused this mess, in a place where the favorite pastime of people is basically hunting, fishing, gathering and napping, and where every home has a small, diverse, multi-layered garden in the backyard.

A Sexy Future

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

Degrowth leads to a sexy place where we all want to live. Neoliberalism forces us all to exist in solitary confinement until we die…

Karate-Do: The Official Sport of the Gaian Way

By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism

Following the way—whether karate-do or the Gaian Way—without energy will not sustain its power—whether its power to transform oneself, one’s community, or one’s culture, and especially will not sustain its power to transform humanity’s relationship with Gaia.