Just… Stop…
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
To effect real change you have to do something to create those changes. Change is work, not theatre. If you want tangible benefits, you have to craft something more tangible than a message.
Tag: social change
Why Resistance Matters: Resistance & Regeneration
By Marissa Mommaerts, Transition US
The growing movement for regeneration offers a much needed reframe of how to fully show up in our humanity at this critical moment in our planet’s history.
Our Politicians in Washington Are Behaving Like Kindergarteners on A Playground!!
By Dick Rauscher, Dick Rauscher blog
We need to intentionally create a more mature and evolved collective human consciousness. And we are rapidly running out of time to do that essential work.
New (and Free!) E-book from Island Press Spotlights Opportunities for Action in an Era of Change
By Laurie Mazur, Resilience.org
In this hopeful and frustrating year, contributors to the Island Press Urban Resilience Project celebrated our collective progress, while highlighting how far we have yet to go.
Reflections on COP26
By Kumi Naidoo, Global Tapestry of Alternatives
We find ourselves in the most consequential decade in the history of humanity. The choices we make now will determine what kind of future we'll have, or whether we will have a future at all.
Evolutionary Mismatch, Partisan Politics, and Climate Change: A Tragedy in Three Acts
By Helen Camakaris, This View of Life
It is apparent that our focus should not only be on solving climate change, but should also address other planetary boundaries, and perhaps even democratic renewal, but in every case, we need the means of transitioning from an unsatisfactory system to a better one that focuses on our strengths, and mitigates against our psychological shortcomings.
A radical land occupation in Brazil shows how to reimagine our societies for the better
By Stellan Vinthagen, Waging Nonviolence
Resistance will always face repression if it is strong and poses a real challenge to the elites and the privileged. It will need resources and a community to survive and endure.
Individuals and social pressure: how to change the world
By Julia Steinberger, Medium.com
I recently had an extraordinary and rare experience, as an academic, activist and citizen: I participated in a victorious movement.
Debate: Municipalism and the feminisation of politics
By Laura Roth, Minim
These and other feminist practices depend on face-to-face interactions, a disposition to change, trust and shared experiences. New municipalism offers a great opportunity to experiment with these innovations. It is one we must embrace.
Reflections on tsunamis, determination and a week in Glasgow
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
And so I leave Glasgow not optimistic or pessimistic, but infinitely more determined. And feeling like the power, the flow, the surge of Friday and Saturday’s tsunamis will carry us forward. I feel it at my back, I feel it in my stomach, and I will feel it forever.
Act Global, Think Local
By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism
Some thrive at the local, others the global, others at the regional, and others, still, do great bouncing from one to the other to the other. But I think there is value in considering this honestly, and better understanding at what level you want to enact change, and then focusing there.
Degrowth strategies: thinking with and beyond Erik Olin Wright
By Carol Baedi, Jacob Smessaert, Joe Herbert, Nathan Barlow, Degrowth.de
Degrowthers have recently seemed to find a lot of inspiration in Erik Olin Wright’s framework of political strategies for transformations beyond capitalism. In this blog post, we wish to highlight some crucial insufficiencies of Wright’s framework in relation to degrowth transformations...