By David MacLeod, Integral Permaculture
What does it mean to honor Grace Limits? Dowd considers Grace Limits to be “the inescapable, geological, ecological, and thermodynamic constraints to which humanity must rapidly adjust.”
By Erik Lindberg, transitionmilwaukee.org
That being said, I find the alternative vision for the future that Trainer suggests improbable as well, though I should also add that it is only presented briefly in the article in question.
By Aaron Vansintjan, Entitle Blog
Talk about the Anthropocene often has a tendency to rely on apolitical and colonialist assumptions. But the turn to ecology in the humanities will require acknowledging—and, more importantly, supporting—those peoples who have never turned their back on ‘ecology’ in the first place.
By Patrick M. Lydon, FinalStraw.org
Is it possible for a humble seed and a patch of soil to be the catalysts for stronger, healthier, more equal urban communities?
By Giorgos Kallis, The Great Transition
Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism.
By Tom Butler, Resilience.org
Keeping the Wild was conceived to confront the notion of human hegemony and also to join the growing conversation within the conservation movement about the so-called Anthropocene.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
The idea of blending sports action with a story about the Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline project first came to filmmakers Anthony Bonello and Nicolas Teichrob not long after Hann’s paddling adventure.
By Sandra Postel, Basia Irland, National Geographic Newswatch
Basia Irland is a sculptor, poet, and installation artist who has focused her creativity on rivers for thirty years.
By Juan Pablo Orrego, Post Carbon Institute/Foundation for Deep Ecology
Destroying wild rivers to generate electricity is a false solution to humanity’s need for energy, with extremely high costs to individuals, communities, and ecosystems.
By David Gessner, Onearth
We’re living in a time of growing fear of what I have come to call the “Big Primal.” ...Our scientists confirm that we’re not all simply imagining that our weather has gone wild; for them, the warming of the oceans and the rising of the seas are facts, not theories.
By Luanne Armstrong, The Global Oneness Project
I live on a farm that was once part forest, part swamp. I live with animals both domesticated and wild, with plants, with flowers, with a garden. My grandparents lived here, my parents, my siblings and I, and then my children too. I walk on the land every day and never get bored. There is always something new to see and learn. In the summer, I sit on my deck, which overlooks a pond, a field, and past that, the lake. Barn swallows nest over my head. Paper wasps build small grey cones among the swallow nests.
By Dana Visalli, Global Research
Working with school children in Afghanistan, one experiences the great sweetness of the people there and the commonplace lack of ecological understanding of how the physical world works. This absence of understanding is magnified by the striking deterioration of the Afghan land and the American effort to address these pressing problems with bombs and bullets.