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Sustainability Boils Down to Scale
Sustainability Boils Down to Scale Only small scale systems can sustainably impose “skin in the game”– consequences, accountability and oversight. Several conversations I had at the recent Peak Prosperity conference in Sonoma, CA sparked an insight into why societies and economies thrive or fail: It All Boils Down to Scale. In a conversation with a […]
The Path to a Regenerative Future: The Importance of Local Networks and Bioregional Contexts
The Path to a Regenerative Future: The Importance of Local Networks and Bioregional Contexts The sustainability approach to harmonizing environment, equity, and economies has come under strong critique in recent years. It has been 30 years since the publication of Our Common Future and twenty-five years since the adoption of Agenda 21 at the Earth […]
What Lies Beyond Capitalism and Socialism?
What Lies Beyond Capitalism and Socialism? The status quo, in all its various forms, is dominated by incentives that strengthen the centralization of wealth and power. As longtime readers know, my work aims to 1) explain why the status quo — the socio-economic-political system we inhabit — is unsustainable, divisive, and doomed to collapse under […]
Beyond Sustainability? — We are living in the Century of Regeneration.
Re-greening the Forest Planet (Image Source) Beyond Sustainability? — We are living in the Century of Regeneration. Valuing Ecosystem Function higher than material things is the paradigm shift that determines whether we understand the meaning of our lives and survive or whether we remain ignorant and selfish and destroy our own habitat trying to gain more wealth or […]
Where’s the “eco” in ecomodernism?
Where’s the “eco” in ecomodernism? Image: Richard Walker If you hadn’t heard, despair is old hat. Rather than retreat into the woods, now is the time to think big, to propose visionary policies and platforms. So enter grand proposals like basic income, universal healthcare, and the end of work. Slap big polluters with carbon tax, […]
Climate Truth: a Plan for Sustainability
Climate Truth: a Plan for Sustainability Photo by U.S. Department of Agriculture | CC BY 2.0 There is a practical path for tackling climate change, for organizing from your house to your neighborhood, city, state and beyond. It’s clear. It’s simple. It’s 3 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per person per year as a goal […]
Transformative Thinking on Resilience in a Year of Crisis and Resistance
Transformative Thinking on Resilience in a Year of Crisis and Resistance These are trying times for those who care about equity, sustainability and climate change—the issues that will shape our common future. In 2017, we saw the ascension of a US presidential administration that denies the reality of climate change, emboldens hate groups, and borrows […]
Transitioning to Sustainable Societies: Eco-communities in Denmark
Transitioning to Sustainable Societies: Eco-communities in Denmark Prologue The current article is a compressed, shortened version of a Master’s thesis that has been developed by two master students from the Environmental Management and Sustainability Science study program at Aalborg University in 2017. In the present paper, we intend to show that when it comes to […]
Richard Heinberg – Author and Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow
Richard Heinberg – Author and Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg joins Sustainable Nation to discuss: The current state of energy and its contributions to the climate crisis The shale gas and tight oil bubble Community resiliency The transition to a fossil fuel free future Recommendations and advice for sustainability leaders Final Five Question […]
Can we cure the global eating disorder?
Can we cure the global eating disorder? We stayed overnight in Dodson, Montana in a charming Bed and Breakfast owned and managed by Sandra Calk. At breakfast we got a peep view into her fridge. There were fruit and vegetables, cheeses, juices, marmalade, honey pickles, condiments and everlasting tortillas. There were eggs and rhubarb from […]
Are Modern Cities Sustainable?
Are Modern Cities Sustainable? Photo by Grant252 | CC BY 2.0 Around 4 billion people, or more than 50 % of the world’s population, now live in cities. By 2050 that percentage is expected to rise to 75%, as the world population soars to 9.7 billion. Fifty of those cities will be mega cities, i.e. […]
Clean Food: If You Want to Save the World, Get Over Yourself.
Clean Food: If You Want to Save the World, Get Over Yourself. From Salt Bae, via Facebook I’m a permaculture farmer. My goal is to develop natural ecosystems that produce food. My dream is a world with ready access to a diet that nourishes the body of the consumer, provides a living for the producer, and […]
Three acres and a cow
Three acres and a cow My title comes from a 19th century English song, which includes this verse… If all the land in England was divided up quite fair / There would be work for everyone to earn an honest share / Well some have thousand acre farms which they have got somehow / But I’ll be satisfied […]
Is it possible for everyone to live a good life within our planet’s limits?
Is it possible for everyone to live a good life within our planet’s limits? Imagine a country that met the basic needs of its citizens – one where everyone could expect to live a long, healthy, happy and prosperous life. Now imagine that same country was able to do this while using natural resources at a […]
Constructing Hope: A Discussion of “Green Earth”
Constructing Hope: A Discussion of “Green Earth” Neither hope nor its cousin joy are to be confused with optimism. The latter tends to be more a quality of temperament than a realistic assessment of prospects. As for the former, well, you have to go looking for them, or even, laboriously, construct them for yourself, at […]
