As US-EU trade tensions rise, conflicting carbon tariffs could undermine climate efforts
The two visions for climate policy tariffs involve different paths toward somewhat different goals, so they cannot easily be reconciled.
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A Degrowth Housing Vision for Maine
If we are to be intentional about equitably meeting human needs and prospering within ecological boundaries, I believe we need to do the work of imagining that world first if we want to create it.
Czech CAP Strategic Plan – Redistributive Payments and the Counter-Productive Tension Between Small and Big
This big vs small debate needs to be sorted out with a more detailed, targeted lens that does justice to the small-medium active farmers, individual or aggregated together in larger organisations.
A Call to Defend Bicycling Infrastructure: Why Are We Neglecting Something So Essential?
In my experience, there is nothing in the human-built environment that can compete with the beauty and wonder of natural landscapes, but if I were to hold one thing in the anthro-environment sacred, it would be the cycling infrastructure.
What is the Debt Ceiling?
The debt ceiling is proof that war is not working. We cannot afford it. We have the capacity for complex problem solving, lets finally prove it.
How Black History Paves the Way for a Just Black Future
What gets us to racial justice is making sure that people have the things that they need to survive and thrive.
Permaculture for Climate Change Resilience in Mexico
Climate change is more than a terrifying crisis, it is an opportunity to restore planetary ecosystems and create healthier, more balanced societies.
Travels in my Time Machine Part Three: visiting the Cornish beavers of 2030
What would it sound like to live in a future in which beavers were now considered an essential part of our now rapidly-rewilding landscapes?
Who will Guard the Guardians: Direct Democracy as Suspicion of Authority
It is only by opening up institutions and decision-making processes to the whole of the population, that we can create a more just society.
Amazon’s least-deforested areas are due to ‘vital role’ of Indigenous peoples
Only 5% of net forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon occurs in Indigenous territories and protected areas – even though these areas contain more than half of the region’s forest.
Binna Choi of the Casco Art Institute: Curating Art through Commoning
Choi has brought the ethic and practices of commoning to the creation of art and its exhibition. She and her colleagues have embraced commoning as an organizing principle for how a diverse team of artists can make art and work together.
Sustainability can (and must) be beautiful
To fulfill the vision that sets the practice of sustainability in motion—the vision of life coordinating with life in ways that ensure the flourishing of life—ethics and aesthetics must be reintegrated.