By Roger Boyd, Humanity's Test
We have built our society, economy, and belief systems around the benefits and sustainability of economic growth. As further growth endangers our welfare by destroying the earth's ecology upon which we are dependent, the inability to move away from such growth is truly pathological.
By Rob Hopkins, Richard Heinberg, Transition Culture
While in the US recently Richard and I pulled up a chair under a tree in his garden and chatted about his book The Party's Over.
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
Time spent here, and talking to people, gives a sense of just how powerful the forces of nature are, and how we tamper with them at our peril.
By FDE and PCI staff, Post Carbon Institute/Foundation for Deep Ecology
Recognizing that all human economic activity is a subset of nature’seconomy and must not degrade its vitality is the starting point for systemic transformation of the energy system.
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
The unavoidable tradeoff between efficiency and resilience can be understood easily enough by considering an ordinary bridge. All bridges these days have vastly more structural strength than they need in order to support their ordinary load of traffic. This is inefficient, to be sure, but it makes the bridges resilient; they can withstand high winds, unusually heavy loads, deferred maintenance, and other challenges without collapsing.
By Rhys Kelly, Permaculture Magazine
I have come to question some of the assumptions that underpin mainstream education, and to consider what can be done...to provide an education that is appropriate to the challenges of the 21st century.
By Greg Dalton, Climate One
A conversation with two former state chief executives on bridging the partisan divide and adapting to climate change.
By Howard Silverman, Solving for Pattern
In ways both scientific and pragmatic, there can be no resilience without transformation.
By Laurie Mazur, NewSecurityBeat
From the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to Superstorm Sandy, the last decade has seen an incredible array of natural disasters...The proliferation of disasters is raising awareness about our collective need to minimize vulnerability and to bounce back afterwards – our need for greater resilience.
By Laurie Mazur, NewSecurity Beat
When Superstorm Sandy slammed into the U.S. East Coast last October, it was the latest in a series of “teachable moments” about our growing vulnerability to climate change.