By Christine E. Hatch, The Conversation
I believe we can learn from beavers’ water management skills, coexist with them in our landscapes and incorporate their natural engineering in response to weather and precipitation patterns disrupted by climate change.
By Sarah Queblatin, Medium
Over the last few years my organization, Green Releaf Initaitive, has been prototyping our permaculture gardens on select sites affected by disasters and displacement. At the core of our theory of change is not just “design” but regenerative design that invites us to go beyond sustainability and ways that we can apply it in contexts of aid and development.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
You and I and termites have a lot in common. For one thing, we are all dependent on microbes to stay alive. Besides, humans and termites, along with every other multi-celled living creature, belong to just one small branch on the evolutionary tree of life, where we’re vastly outnumbered by bacteria.
By Green European Journal Staff, Kim Stanley Robinson, Green European Journal
Like Dante in the inferno, for humanity in the first decades of the 21st century, the only way is through. In The Ministry for the Future, writer Kim Stanley Robinson imagines that path, telling the story of a world that somehow manages to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
By Bruce Glavovic, Iain White, Tim Smith, The Conversation
Given the unfolding tragedy, a moratorium on climate change research is the only responsible option for revealing and then restoring the broken science-society contract.
By Jem Bendell, Jem Bendell blog
How can one celebrate heroic individualism in response to a film that shows how stupid that is (in the first comet deflection attempt) and how deadly it can be (in the abortion of that attempt to allow an entrepreneur’s greedy dream of risking the human race to mine the asteroid)?
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
We must adapt to climate changes in future, and we are adapting already. But if the adaptations are merely ad hoc and not thoughtfully considered, they are more likely to be maladaptations than great adaptations.
By Rupert Read, Resilience.org
Progress is entirely incommensurable with precaution, with a ‘No’ to recklessness. It’s time to say enough to progress and begin to reorient our political narratives around a precautionary logic.
By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
In other words, data is no substitute for knowledge or wisdom. And knowledge and wisdom seem to be the scarcest of resources in modern Canada.
By Stan Cox, Seattle Times
Ending the extraction of fossil fuels from the Earth while achieving material sufficiency, equity and justice would move us a long way toward the more livable future that the people who gathered outside COP26 — along with billions of others around the world — are demanding and are standing ready to create.
By Justin Kenrick, Bella Caledonia
We need to move from civil disobedience to political disobedience. We need to move from captured corporate representative democracy (democracy in name only) to the real and deep democracy of deliberative peoples and citizens assemblies.
By Chris Rhodes, Energy Balance
We call on all scientists to sign this paper, and act in a united effort to avoid a catastrophic collapse of civilisation.