Marketing the planet: The financialization of nature
How did we reach this precarious point in our collective existence, and more importantly, can we craft a clear and secure path out of this mess?
building resilient societies
Evolutionary Mismatch, Partisan Politics, and Climate Change: A Tragedy in Three Acts
It is apparent that our focus should not only be on solving climate change, but should also address other planetary boundaries, and perhaps even democratic renewal, but in every case, we need the means of transitioning from an unsatisfactory system to a better one that focuses on our strengths, and mitigates against our psychological shortcomings.
A practical radical politics
Politics is the art of the possible, and politics also is the pursuit of goals that are impossible. We can pursue reforms today, knowing them to be inadequate, with revolutionary aims for tomorrow, knowing that the transformation needed will likely come too late.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 65 Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and a renowned lecturer who has keynoted conferences and led workshops on the impact of commerce upon the environment. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Ecological Civilisation: Beyond Consumerism and the Growth Economy (Introduction)
This is the introduction to the Ecological Civilisation series, written and presented by Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute.
Degrowth: Taking the Debate Beyond GDP
Deep, systemic, positive change arises when we collectively dream and enact a different form of society altogether — one focused on free and flourishing lives for all.
My Manifesto: Toward a Politics for Life
The most recent events tell us that the time has come for us to assume our responsibility as human beings who share a common destiny, and that implies the end of ideologies, not one or the other, but all of them, those of the left, center and right, and their replacement by the eco-political, generic and planetary consciousness of women and men.
Amitav Ghosh: The Nutmeg’s Curse
As we’ve seen, the few environmental movements that have succeeded in the long run are almost all built around certain ideas of the relationship between humans and certain spaces.
Not a Democracy
This is not a democracy. But it may be… soon… if we just acknowledge that it is not democracy. And start working toward making something that is.
“The possible has been tried and failed: now I want to try the impossible”: What Sun Ra can teach the climate movement
What if, as climate activists, we were to respectfully adopt that concept of “I’ve been to the future. We won” and build on it.
January Notes: Making Peace with Our Ancestors
So how, indeed, can those of us of colonialist heritage and good will do the serious work of deconstructing, then reconstructing and healing our ancestral heritage in our own minds and lives, while sorting out and holding fast to the beliefs, attitudes, practical knowledge and skills that might be useful and beneficial?
Warre and peace: of gifts, government and men with guns
Anyway, as governments wrestle with the increasingly impossible predicaments of our times, it seems to me likely that this space of publics versus governments will become a lot more politically diverse. And that’s the point at which the question of ‘public ownership’ becomes a really live issue.