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The Bulletin: June 12-18, 2025
The Bulletin: June 12-18, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Australia – carbon bomber of the Indo-Pacific The Gas Industry Is Redefining Methane as “Clean Energy” The role of aerosol declines in recent warming By Disaster Or Design The Renewables Farce US […]
The Radical Step
THE RADICAL STEP BUILDING A COMMUNITY FOR SURVIVAL Climate news this week is bleak. More floods, more wildfires, more death, more nature lost. The climate change warning bell is tolling hard. It’s time to take the most radical step you’ve ever taken in your life. It’s time to build the community you need to survive. […]
Micro utopias for an inclusive future
Micro utopias for an inclusive future When Gijsbert Huijink, a Dutch national living in Banyoles, in the Catalan province of Girona, set out to install solar panels in his home he stumbled upon a legal labyrinth that criminalized energy self-consumption. “If I wanted to connect to the grid to recharge my batteries and supply my […]
Supply Chain Failures Prove Growing Need for Localized Economies
Supply Chain Failures Prove Growing Need for Localized Economies Organizations fighting for local food sovereignty are among the largest social movements in the world, representing more than 200 million small farmers.TOM WERNER / GETTY IMAGES The mainstream media — television, print and digital — routinely cycle through the litany of crises gripping the world. One […]
The Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog, 03.26.2020
The Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog, 03.26.2020 It may sound paradoxical, but philosophers have proved useful in times of collapse and rebuilding. Some of the greatest works in philosophy–at least in terms of their longevity and influence–were written in and during such times.1 (More on this below.) Alfred North Whitehead, one of those philosophers writing in […]
Localisation: A strategic solution to globalised authoritarianism
Localisation: A strategic solution to globalised authoritarianism For those who care about peace, equality and the future of the planet, the global political swing to the right over the past few years is deeply worrying. It has us asking ourselves, how did this happen? How did populism turn into such a divisive and destructive force? How […]
What can we do?
What can we do? Rainbow over the Tapajós River in the Amazon © Todd Southgate / Greenpeace At the University of Minnesota Dr. Nate Hagens teaches an honours course called “Reality 101: A Survey of the Human Predicament.” Hagens operated his own hedge fund on Wall Street until he glimpsed, “a serious disconnect between capitalism, growth, and […]
The Transition Towns Movement … going where?
The Transition Towns Movement … going where? The global predicament cannot be solved other than through a Transition Towns movement, and the emergence of such a movement has been of immense importance. But I fear that the present movement is not going to do what’s needed. Four years ago I circulated reasons for this view. […]
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 Viable Economy – and Viable Finance
The Viable Economy – and Viable Finance via openclipart.org It is all too clear that our economy is precarious, economically, socially and ecologically. Steady State Manchester promotes the Viable Economy1, which means greater resilience, localisation, and balance as economic activity is treated not an end in itself, but rather as a means to deliver a […]
The devil shops local
The devil shops local Veterans of this blog may recall that some time ago I had a fascinating discussion about the ‘balance of nature’ with a curious fellow who turned out to be none other than the devil himself. Well, blow me if I didn’t meet him again as I journeyed home from the Oxford Real Farming […]
How to change the world in 3 easy steps
How to change the world in 3 easy steps I often get asked by people about what they can do to change things, to change the world, when each of us is just one person, in the face of so much that we cannot even hope to control or influence. What can we do? Why […]
Local Currency–Money For Us, Not the Bankers
Local Currency–Money For Us, Not the Bankers “Back in the 1930s on the Olympic peninsula, people were paying their taxes in alternative money…The banks shut them down. This is an example of the monopoly the banks have, and the level of control they have over peoples’ economic lives… People need to know [local currency] is […]
