Sitting with the Trouble
I wanted to write something useful in these times of lockdown and uncertainty, to share practices from those years that might help others navigate this unknown territory.
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Divesting for Beginners
One of the reasons we find it hard to face the facts about collapse and climate change is because there are so few imaginary or real life stories about powerdown. There are plenty of success-through-adversity stories, hero stories, princess stories…And somewhere in the bones of ourselves we know this is a key to our future: we don’t know the outcome of the play. Or whether back up will arrive. We go in anyway. Something is pulling us. It’s time.
Can We Have Our Climate and Eat It Too?
As much as world leaders would like to focus attention on their economies, terrorism, or winning the next election, the heat is rising.
Degrowth and the Carbon Budget: Powerdown Strategies for Climate Stability – Part 1
In order to keep within a ‘safe’ temperature threshold, deep and rapid decarbonisation is required, and yet existing trends show that global emissions are still growing rapidly.
Our Power climate gathering builds ‘roots to weather the storm’
The campaign intends to accomplish two broad goals: end the era of extreme energy and implement a just transition to local, living economies.
Scientists vindicate ‘Limits to Growth’ – urge investment in ‘circular economy’
A fundamental reorganisation of the way societies produce, manage and consume resources could support a new high-technology civilisation, but this would entail a new "circular economy" premised on wide-scale practices of recycling across production and consumption chains, a wholesale shift to renewable energy, application of agro-ecological methods to food production, and with all that, very different types of social structures.
The sower’s strategy: how to speed up the sustainable energy transition
In order to survive the double threat of resource depletion and climate change we need to move as quickly as possible to a sustainable society based on renewable resources.
Foreward from Notes to Nowhere
The illusion that progress will solve the problems of the future is presented to obscure the ancient truth that future-problems are created by the present.
The Crocodiles of Reality
I’ve suggested in several previous posts that the peak oil debate may be approaching a turning point—one of those shifts in the collective conversation in which topics that have been shut out for years or decades finally succeed in crashing the party, and other topics that have gotten more than their quota of attention during that time get put out to pasture or sent to the glue factory.
Charting Collapseniks
A ferment in the environmental movement, brewing for many years, has now bubbled up into the blogosphere. We are dipping our ladle in here to take a little taste of it, even though we are quite certain it is not done fermenting.
Economic Descent, hopefully with Skillful Means
In case I don’t use sufficiently ‘skillful means,’ please let me begin with stating: I am not advocating for intentionally creating an economic crash.