By Peter Newell, Freddie Daley, Michelle Twena, Rapid Transition Alliance
A major new report by the Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Behaviour Change calls on policy makers to target the UK’s polluter elite to trigger a shift to more sustainable behaviour, and provide affordable, available low-carbon alternatives to poorer households.
By Vicki Robin, Trae Crowder, Resilience.org
Hailing from Celina Tennessee, Trae Crowder is a standup comedian, writer, and self-proclaimed “Liberal Redneck.” Trae addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” through his socially aware comedic view...
By Marissa Mommaerts, Transition US
“Winds of Change,” the third part of the trilogy that began with The Dandelion Insurrection, is so rich that I simultaneously want to share it with every visionary changemaker I know...
By Adam Szymanski, Post-Growth Institute
Before we can set to work tearing down old systems and building up better ones, we first have to imagine where we want to go.
By Vicki Robin, Kumi Naidoo, Resilience.org
Kumi’s current roles include Professor of Practice, Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University; Global Ambassador, and Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity. Kumi shares his thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right?
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
The world seems to be coming apart at the seams. It’s critical to understand why, so that we can avoid the worst and find the best responses so as to move toward the environmentally and socially healthy future we want. It turns out that there’s a relatively simple frame for gaining such understanding.
By Joe Guinan, Red Pepper
The climate clock is unforgiving. Multiple overlapping crises – political, ecological, economic, pandemic – are already upon us. We lost the election, we have lost the party leadership, but we have not yet lost the chance to build our movement.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
David Graeber was a cruel loss in these already-difficult times. Graeber was only 59....he clearly had many more dazzling books ahead of him....and those of us questing for system-change as multiple crises converge, took great inspiration from his thinking.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
I’m thinking of these present two posts more as a kind of position statement on the politics underlying my forthcoming book, A Small Farm Future, and its arguments for renewable agrarianism, using the debate about XR as my foil.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
The tactics of ‘get off our land’ and ‘hey, we have a collective civilizational problem that needs greater action’ are not the same, even if they’re part of the same larger story.
By Frank Fischer, Great Transition Initiative
Thinking about the post-pandemic future and the scenarios that could emerge is as challenging as it is important. One cannot conceive of a more pressing issue for a progressive movement. Finding a workable response is thus of critical importance.
By John Harris, The Guardian blog
At the heart of a new climate emergency bill lies a simple idea to cut through Westminster groupthink: a citizens’ assembly.