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Corporate Giants to Soak Up Global Water Supply?
The increasing privitazation of natural resources threatens to diminish the commons. The corporate merger of Veolia and Suez is currently endangering public control of precious water resources.
Could a Green New Deal Save Civilization?
To fully and systematically address the climate/energy crisis, the plan will have to be far broader in scope than what is currently being proposed. And while we need to mobilize society as a whole with a World War II-level of effort, the reality is that there’s never been a challenge like this before.
A Project for the COP26 – and Beyond
In early 2020, Arkbound Foundation began putting together a landmark publication on climate change for the COP26 Summit in Glasgow. The summit was postponed to …
Seaspiracy: New Documentary About the Fishy Side of the Sea Food Industry
If you ever thought that eating more sea fish is much more sustainable than, let’s say, eating beef, then you ought to think again. If you ever want to know why, then watch Seaspiracy, a shockingly effective expose of the dark secrets of the fishing industry by Ali and Lucy Tabrizi.
Making Peace with Paradox
Dualistic thinking is dividing us so how do we integrate complexity and multiplicity in our work towards positive social change?
Future Primal: How our Wilderness Origins Show us the Way Forward
Today, the story we tell ourselves about our economics and politics has run its course and is exhausted. Humanity enters the twenty-first century in a state of extraordinary crisis. Yet we are on the cusp of a revolution of human consciousness.
Karl Polanyi: The Economic Prophet Who Predicted Why the Market Would Fail Us
Long before it was fashionable to be an environmentalist or critical of the capitalist growth economy, Karl Polyani predicted the market economy’s inherent contradictions and ultimate failure.
What Would a Regenerative Economy Look Like?
Daniel Christian Wahl offers a series of questions that can support your community to explore what a regenerative economy would look like in your bioregion.
Decolonizing Environmentalism
Environmentalism has been unconsciously steeped in the Judeo-Christian concept of man’s dominion over the natural world. Jazmin Murphy explores how this crisis can be redressed by the inclusion of indigenous communities in environmental dialogue, research and action.
Pandemic Response Requires Post-Growth Economic Thinking
The coronavirus pandemic has caused a sea change in priorities, which requires entirely different thinking and policies—ones much more closely aligned with heterodox post-growth thinking than with pro-growth economic orthodoxy.
Reclaiming Our Common Home
The path to an ecological civilization is paved by reclaiming the commons—our common home, the Earth, and the commons of the Earth family, of which we are a part. Through reclaiming the commons, we can imagine possibility for our common future, and we can sow the seeds of abundance through “commoning.”
What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
We need to forge a new era for humanity—one that is defined, at its deepest level, by a transformation in the way we make sense of the world, and a concomitant revolution in our values, goals, and collective behavior. In short, we need to change the basis of our global civilization. We must move from a civilization based on wealth accumulation to one that is life-affirming: an ecological civilization.
From Nature’s Mutualistic Networks to More Resilient Human Networks
We have been taught to live in a competitive, survival-of-the-fittest world. But in reality, the natural world is mostly about cooperation. What can we learn from nature’s mutualistic networks to help us make our human networks more resilient?
What Will It Take to “Build Back Better”?
In discussing our options, we too often get sidetracked into a debate between political philosophies—capitalism vs. socialism—that sidesteps the larger issues. We need a different framework. Our common future depends on serious institutional rethinking and restructuring to localize power and share it on a global scale.
Buen Vivir: A Concept on the Rise in Europe?
The concept of buen vivir has gained visibility in Latin America in recent years. Rooted in indigenous worldviews, buen vivir rests on an understanding of humanity’s relationship with nature that is fundamentally at odds with the anthropocentrism of modernity. Gustavo Hernández and Henkjan Laats trace the concept’s rising trajectory and its influence and echos in Europe.
