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How Illinois Is Bringing Grocery Stores Back to Main Street

January 15, 2025

A team at Western Illinois University, bolstered by a first-of-its-kind initiative, is helping towns across the state democratize their food economy.

2024’s extreme ocean heat breaks records again, leaving 2 mysteries to solve

Annalisa Bracco, The Conversation

January 15, 2025

From a practical standpoint, however, the extraordinary impacts the planet has witnessed – including extreme weather, heat waves, wildfires, coral bleaching and ecosystem destruction – point to a need to swiftly reduce carbon dioxide emissions to limit ocean warming, regardless of whether this is a continuation of an ongoing trend or an acceleration.

Crazy Town 96. The Frequent Flyer Tree: Losing the Last Bit of Sense in the Climate Emergency

Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org

January 15, 2025

In the world of college sports, money talks and the volleyball team walks, er, flies 33,000 miles to play games. Who cares, as long as we can wring a few more dollars out of the TV deals — am I right?!? Jason, Rob, and Asher propose a new plan for college sports and for taking the climate emergency seriously.

Decoupling what!?

Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

January 14, 2025

Adding up, when discussing decoupling, it is extremely important to look into the definitions, the boundaries and the evidence presented – regardless what message they have – in a very critical way.

The Wrong Lesson From Trudeau’s Fall Is That Climate Action Is Unpopular

Mitch Anderson, DeSmog Blog

January 14, 2025

Canadians clearly want to turn the page on Trudeau’s image-infatuated tenure. However, it would be a grave mistake for the Liberal party to also assume they need to jettison climate policy under the mistaken assumption that being too progressive is what led to the party’s current decline.

From Local Roots to Global Vision: ARC2020 President Welcomes 2025

Hannes Lorenzen, ARC2020

January 14, 2025

Having a dream helps against sleepwalking into a nightmare. Taking action makes the dream, however big, a reality.

Four touchstones for dealing with a world careening into chaos

Patrick Mazza, The Raven

January 14, 2025

I can’t say I find these days easy to take. Some days I wake with a sense of dread, not sure what the day will bring. These four touchstones help me navigate, and find shards of sunlight in the dark skies. I hope they help you, my readers, as we ready ourselves for the days ahead.

Decolonizing California’s Wildfire Zone

Sarah M. Pike, YES! magazine

January 14, 2025

Verbena Fields in Northern California is an emerging model of what decolonizing land via Traditional Ecological Knowledge can look like, supported by partnerships between Native and non-Native communities.

Equality as a Process: Reimagining Power, Justice, and Social Structure

Yavor Tarinski, ZNet

January 14, 2025

If we place equality only as an aim for the distant future, then we have already lost the fight. Instead, let it be the foundational basis on which we begin building, from today, a more just and democratic society.

View from Washington (5)

Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

January 14, 2025

The 119th Congress has opened for business. Once President-elect Trump is sworn into office on January 20th, the Republicans will control both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. Whether they have control over themselves is another matter.

Review: In the Drift by Michael Swanwick

Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press

January 13, 2025

Michael Swanwick’s 1985 novel In the Drift takes place in an alternate reality in which the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident—rather than remaining a partial meltdown with minimal environmental impact, as in reality—escalated into a full-scale disaster that rendered much of the United States uninhabitable.

The Arts Organization Helping Transform Appalachia’s Craft Economy

Kristi Eaton, Barn Raiser

January 13, 2025

Creative entrepreneurs are getting needed support to grow and sustain their businesses after Hurricane Helene.

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How Illinois Is Bringing Grocery Stores Back to Main Street

2024’s extreme ocean heat breaks records again, leaving 2 mysteries to solve

Crazy Town 96. The Frequent Flyer Tree: Losing the Last Bit of Sense in the Climate Emergency

Decoupling what!?

The Wrong Lesson From Trudeau’s Fall Is That Climate Action Is Unpopular

From Local Roots to Global Vision: ARC2020 President Welcomes 2025

Four touchstones for dealing with a world careening into chaos

Decolonizing California’s Wildfire Zone

Equality as a Process: Reimagining Power, Justice, and Social Structure

View from Washington (5)

Review: In the Drift by Michael Swanwick

The Arts Organization Helping Transform Appalachia’s Craft Economy