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Food: from commodity to commons

The ride will be easier if we halt the depletion of resources and the degradation of nature and build a regenerative food system now, before we are faced with the possibility of worrying whether we will get any food at all before going to bed.

How Republics Succeed, Falter, and Fail

John P. Ruehl, Resilience.org

The United States today faces inherent challenges that have weakened the republic, making lessons from the Roman Republic even more necessary to avoid greater political instability.

States have a shelf life of about 200 years

Thinking about civilisations as being time-limited immediately leads you to a particular perspective about them, which is in effect, that as civilisations age they are more likely to show signs of decline, in the same way that we can make the same kinds of assumptions about people.

The Dumb and Dumber Economy

Nick King, Resilience.org

If critical masses of people could recognise this fully, and join forces to finally say ‘enough!’ to this misleading belief about ‘making it’, perhaps there would be a real chance that something better could arise in its place.

The View from Washington (3)

It’s chaotic—perhaps surreal is a better word—here in Washington. In this third essay on Trump 2.0 and climate politics, I’ll be touching on the continuing transition activities of the Trump administration, both parties in Congress, and efforts by the Biden administration to Trump-proof his climate legacy.

Wild Communities, Tamed Publics

Chris Smaje, Resilience.org

At present, we can only try to shape the emergence of resilient livelihood communities as best we can and speak up for agrarianism and against the industrial food system and its processes of corporate enclosure.