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Permaculture
Permaculture A design system that offers a radical reimagination of the possible Permaculture is a design system that mimics the patterns of flourishing ecosystems to create ecologically regenerative human societies. First developed by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the 1970s, permaculture takes inspiration from Indigenous and ‘traditional’ agrarian practices. Mollison and Holmgren created […]
Population
Population “Neo-Malthusian promotion of family planning as the solution to hunger, conflict, and poverty has contributed to destructive population control approaches, that are targeted most often at poor, racialized women.” While often thought of as a given reality, definitions of population are highly political. They are most often negatively associated with notions of “overpopulation” or […]
The Revolution Will Not Be “Green”
The Revolution Will Not Be “Green” A truly equitable and sustainable conservation movement must abandon both green capitalism and the idea of pristine nature Our planet is dying, and conservation as we know it isn’t helping. In fact, it’s making things worse. Long imagined as a bulwark against ecological destruction, players in the mainstream conservation […]
Now is the time to end the climate emergency
Now is the time to end the climate emergency Reading “The Green New Deal and beyond” in the middle of a global crisis In The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can, Stan Cox has a message for all who were counting on the Green New Deal to help save […]
When viruses shatter limits
When viruses shatter limits Viruses are invisibly small, cause monumental pandemics, and force us to rethink our taxonomies All that is left to us, therefore, is to understand what the disaster is producing within us, to pay attention to the explosion of affects it reveals. Therein lie the complexity of the situation and its rare […]
This pandemic IS ecological breakdown: different tempo, same song
This pandemic IS ecological breakdown: different tempo, same song Comparisons between the toll of COVID-19 and climate change are not helpful because they view each as two separate “things” In late 2019, a novel coronavirus (SARS CoV-2) emerged from a wet market in Wuhan in the province of Hubei in China. At the time of writing, […]
How much will the US Way of Life © have to change?
How much will the US Way of Life © have to change? On the future of farming, socialist science, and utopia Debates about the Green New Deal—Ocasio-Cortez’s version and occasionally radical varieties such as that of the US Green Party—have incited much discussion about paths to utopia. Central to these conversations is the labour question: who […]
How radical municipalism can go beyond the local
How radical municipalism can go beyond the local Fighting for more affordable, accessible places to live means fighting for a less carbon-intensive future by the Symbiosis Research Collective Climate change, global finance, the neoliberal state: today’s crises require action on a big scale. And yet fighting for local democracy is – perhaps counter-intuitively – […]
Hierarchy, climate change and the state of nature
Hierarchy, climate change and the state of nature We can start building new tools for a democratic and ecological society once we understand hierarchy as the central problem The Sumerian Standard of Ur is 4,600 years old, showing the king in the top middle, standing taller than any other figure. Image: Wikipedia We briefly mentioned […]
Let’s define Degrowth before we dismiss it
Let’s define Degrowth before we dismiss it The reluctance of degrowth-critics to define growth makes for poor debate Diverse leftist commentators such as Samuel Farber, Paul Krugman, and Leigh Phillips are arguing that economic growth is necessary to protect existing and future well-being. But rarely do they define what they mean by economic growth. Recently […]
