Immunity is liberty
By Amitabha Sarkar, Transnational Institute
The demand for vaccine citizenship is an opportune moment to create bonds between people across borders. This is a time to shoot for progressive internationalism.
Tag: coronavirus strategies
Energy and Emissions after COVID
By Chris Nelder, Energy Transition Show
What trajectory of global energy consumption and carbon emissions can we expect as the world starts to recover from the COVID pandemic in the years ahead?
Urban Walkability Gains a Foothold in the U.S.
By Andy Hirschfield, YES! magazine
Only time will tell, but a city built around 15-minute travel via nonmotorized transportation is one that can upend the way planners think about neighborhoods and mobility, and may ultimately render cars unnecessary in all aspects of personal transportation.
Ten Lessons from Covid for Stepping into the Decade of Transformation
By Otto Scharmer, Medium
If this is the decade when all the “streams” finally converge into a larger “river” of global movement building — if this is the decade of transformation — what can we learn from the Covid disruption about how to move forward?
Back To Normal? Is That What We Really Want?
By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism
If we do have that revelation, there’s a chance that from the ashes of our current rapacious culture will be born an ecocentric, just, and restorative one.
The Last Mile
By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism
And there is no shame in leaving the marked trail of the race you started to follow a better course. There is only shame at not running your best race. For yourself and for Gaia.
India’s crisis is our crisis
By Luke Cooper, Red Pepper
India has been added to the UK ‘red list’. With the country setting a global record for case numbers reported in a single day and reports of oxygen shortages and hospitals becoming overwhelmed, a year into this pandemic we may well be facing its most serious crisis yet.
Vaccine equality: Who gets it?
By Heidi Chow, New Internationalist
Ensuring equitable vaccine access is about human rights. And access should never have been determined by wealth.
Working on Overdrive: The Future of Platforms and Working Time
By Green European Journal Staff, Juliet Schor, Green European Journal
It might be a bit of a hunker down message, but it’s about focusing on people’s needs: security, resilience, and minimising risks.
How a Seattle Neighborhood Confronted Food Insecurity in the Pandemic
By Lornet Turnbull, YES! magazine
Over the past year, more than 20 food supply organizations have contributed in one form or another to providing hot meals to residents through the community center.
Coronavirus, Capitalism and Eco-communitarianism
By Sirio López Velasco, Resilience.org
In this article, the author takes stock of the capitalist response during the pandemic to the educational and health challenge in contrast to the eco-communitarian response.
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 5)
By Aaron Karp, Resilience.org
The body politic was sick long before the virus arrived, already at risk of collapse under the weight of its elite hierarchies. When its fever breaks, we must learn the right lessons about how to overcome the underlying issues that threaten its very existence.