Be (grateful) here now: Deep Adaptation Gratitude Month
“Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.”-Joanna Macy
building resilient societies
Now is the Time to Prepare
In economics there is a proposition known as Dornbusch’s Law that states: Crises take longer to arrive than you can imagine, but when they do come, they happen faster than you can possibly imagine.
Is degrowth the future?
The Future is Degrowth is arguably one of the most complete works on the concept of degrowth, clearly and thoroughly discussing the need to think beyond economic growth and why and how degrowth is an alternative.
Silent Stalwart
Like the profuse blooms of the brown-eyed susan, a multitude of people must come forth to fully pursue, serve and save life.
Three Tons of Fascism with a Bull Bar
Like the brave women in Cedar Rapids, we must neither surrender the public square to the extremists nor allow them to bestow rights on vehicles and fossil fuels while revoking rights that belong to us and to the rest of nature.
Democracy Rising 23: Scaling Deliberation—the Maclean’s Magazine Experiment
Despite their differences, the intense time pressure, and being continuously filmed by a crew from Canadian TV (for an hour-long public affairs program) these ordinary citizens by the end of their third day had all signed a detailed, co-created, visionary agreement charting a course to greater mutual understanding by all Canadians.
Electric Shock! Technological Complexity and the Modern Lifestyle
A certain level of technology certainly improves human lifestyle; but beyond a certain point technology creates a ‘trap’ – where growing complexity creates a higher risk to our well-being should those systems suddenly fail.
Misplaced positivity on climate is harmful. Preparing for breakdown could help.
Moments of international media attention to climate change have been rare. So let’s not waste them with fairytales.
Will civilization collapse because it’s running out of oil?
This time, we’re going to have to start coming to terms with nature’s limits. That means shared sacrifice, cooperation, and belt tightening.
Joan Diamond: “From Kool-aid to Lemonade”
Diamond helps us imagine the future in an uncertain time. How can we create robust strategies to help us plan? How can we avoid thinking only of worst-case scenarios?
The Local Planet and the Global Empire of Corporations
From all that has been seen, it can be affirmed that the future of the planet will be local, or it will not be.
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution
Away from the screens of the mainstream media, the crude ‘bigger is better’ narrative that has dominated economic thinking for centuries is being challenged.