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Let’s get ‘creaturely’: A new worldview can help us face ecological crises
Let’s get ‘creaturely’: A new worldview can help us face ecological crises No farmer has ever gone out to the barn to start the day and discovered that a baby tractor had been born overnight. For farmers who work with horses, the birth of a foal would not be surprising. That observation may seem silly, […]
What a Waste
What a Waste Our modern industrial economy traces a straight line from resource extraction to manufacturing to sales to waste disposal. Since Earth has finite resources and limited ability to absorb pollution, the straight-line economy is unsustainable; it is designed for eventual failure. Why not make the economy circular, with waste from one process feeding into […]
Managing without Growth. Slower by Design, not Disaster
Managing without Growth. Slower by Design, not Disaster It took homo sapiens some 200,000 years to reach the first billion by about 1800. In just the 10 years separating the first and second edition of Managing without Growth: Slower by Design, not Disaster, the human population increased by the same amount putting increased pressure on an already crowded […]
Why Liberals Should be Conservative: Climate Change, Excellence, and the Practice of Happiness, Part 2
Why Liberals Should be Conservative: Climate Change, Excellence, and the Practice of Happiness, Part 2 Ed. note: Part 1 of this series can be found on Resilience.org here. The Resurgent Aristotelians: Hopkins, Fleming, Francis, and Holmgren What then does a modern Aristotelianism look like? How might we reconcile his ideal of a singular, philosophically deduced definition […]
Living in the Concretaceous Period
Living in the Concretaceous Period Scientists long ago determined that Earth had entered the Anthropocene period, based on a determination that humans were altering fundamental planetary parameters such as biodiversity and the chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans to the degree that it warranted an entirely new geological designation. Following another millennium of observation and […]
The Big Picture
The Big Picture Humanity has a lot of problems these days. Climate change, increasing economic inequality, crashing biodiversity, political polarization, and a global debt bubble are just a few of our worries. None of these trends can continue indefinitely without leading to a serious failure of our civilization’s ability to maintain itself. Taken together, these […]
The Demise of the Official Future
The Demise of the Official Future Americans are more likely to think the US is heading in the right direction since Donald Trump’s election. Why? The poll results are extraordinary: the proportion of Americans who thought the country was ‘heading in the right direction’ rose sharply when Donald Trump became president of the US, while […]
Feeling Resilient in Tumultuous Times
Feeling Resilient in Tumultuous Times As I read the thoughtful blogs on this site, I feel grateful for the vision, practical wisdom, and creative thinking that I see so often expressed here. In a time when the very foundation of our way of life is breaking down, it is inspiring to hear from so many […]
Drawdown: the Most Comprehensive Plan ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming: Review
Drawdown: the Most Comprehensive Plan ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming: Review Drawdown was a major collaborative effort involving 70 research fellows from 40 countries. It’s not so much a cohesive plan as a list of partial solutions: 80 that are tested and in use at least somewhere in the world, and another 20 that […]
The Ghosts of Past Political Failures Haunt Environmental Challenges
The Ghosts of Past Political Failures Haunt Environmental Challenges We will not solve climate change and other pressing global threats until we admit, and learn from, the repeated failures of past proclamations and promises. The general public, the American news magazine proclaims in its cover story, ‘The ravaged environment’, ‘has been seized with such anger […]
Money –Some points for revolutionaries to think about
Money –Some points for revolutionaries to think about The monetary system we have is a fundamental cause of our problems, and setting up new systems is crucial in the development of alternative economies. However some popular initiatives are sadly mistaken and can have few if any beneficial effects. The goal must be to set up […]
The Secret of Eternal Growth? It’s Wishful Thinking
The Secret of Eternal Growth? It’s Wishful Thinking I want to believe in eternal economic growth. Given what humanity is facing with climate change and other consequences of our collective consumption, it must be awfully comforting to have faith in a cornucopian future where no one ever goes wanting. Especially if all we have to […]
After Florence, Carolinians Know the Climate is Changing; Now we Must Act
After Florence, Carolinians Know the Climate is Changing; Now we Must Act Across the Carolinas, the floodwaters have receded and rebuilding is under way. But the epic 2018 hurricane season has left a mark, like a ghostly high-water stain on the wall of a flooded building. Today, Carolina residents increasingly accept the reality of climate […]
Our Bonus Decade
Our Bonus Decade “The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, […]
Durable Goods
Durable Goods Ed. note: The post below is a transcription of Post Carbon Fellow Stephanie Mills’ remarks at the 50 year anniversary of the publication of the Whole Earth Catalog. Gratitude to Mother Earth, ground of being. Gratitude to Stewart and Ryan and their colleagues for realizing this event. Gratitude to Stephanie Feldstein for her […]
