A Long Way to Venus
We may not end up like Venus, but we are already at the brink of a hot, unstable world well beyond our ability to cope as a civilization.
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Collapse 2.0
Not only does the collapse of modern industrial civilization appear ever more likely, but the process already seems underway.
The Inflation Reduction Act: Standing at a Double-cross Roads
Biden has consistently mentioned in his roadshow presentations that many—if not most—people probably don’t understand the peculiarly named act’s relationship to combatting climate change and expanding the domestic economy.
Walking in an Oven World
Given the giant impression — think major meteor-sized explosion — we humans have made on Planet Earth, could we try something else?
The Hubris of Plutocrats: They Can’t Escape the Heat That’s Coming
The only way that we humans can live within nature’s resource restraints and ecological boundaries is to redirect our economies toward meeting all people’s basic needs, and away from producing material overabundance.
The Past Can’t Tell You the Future
Whatever climate emerges over the coming decades and centuries, it will bear little relation to our past. If we are to survive, the same must be true of us.
Thinking about a world of scarcity
As scarcity increasingly becomes an issue for many key resources, the call for government intervention is rising. That’s because the marketplace is failing in the face of scarcity brought on by geological limits and climate change.
Sundressed: Natural Fabrics and the Future of Clothing – Excerpt
The idea that regenerative grazing systems have the capacity to restore carbon to the soil has been proven by Rebecca Burgess in California. Fibershed’s Climate Beneficial Wool Program measures soil carbon storage so that wool coming from regenerative grazing landscapes can be verified as climate-beneficial.
Please, Stop Considering the Environment
I’m asking us to stop considering the environment and make some space—mental, political, or spiritual—for global-scale economic restraint.
A Lifeline for Winter-Run Chinook
During the signing ceremony, Chief Sisk spoke about the significance of the salmon’s return to the river and Winnemem Wintu homelands, and the role salmon play as both harbinger and provider of health.
A Walking Reflection on Millan Millan and the Mystery of the Missing Mediterranean Storms
The Earthward turn is the inevitable turn. We are on that path whether we recognize it or not.
‘Where Should I Live?’
So make that neighborliness, backhoes, and a devotion to the world around us, which remains beautiful even this savage summer. We’re in a mess, but together we have some chance of working our way out of it.