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Conflict, climate change and other big challenges facing Africa’s Great Green Wall
Africa’s Great Green Wall mega project holds many hopeful about its potential to resurrect ecosystems, save livelihoods and preserve cultures. However, taking a systemic look at this huge undertaking, experts have echoed concerns that conflict and climate change, among other issues, are complicating efforts on the ground.
Voices of Resilience and Systems Change – Book Review of Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation: Accounts of Resilience, Self-Sufficiency and Systems Change, bravely sets out to take a systemic look at the issue of climate change, while supporting the voices of those that stand to be the most affected by it.
Beyond Carrying Capacity: Developing a Wellbeing Economy
The technology and economic growth enthusiasts will argue that new, more sustainable technology will counter any problems caused to the environment. We can grow indefinitely. There is some truth in both outlooks.
Facebook Is Now Meta. And It Wants to Monetize Your Whole Existence.
Mark Zuckerberg’s turn toward the “metaverse” claims to put an extra digital layer on top of the real world. But Facebook’s new Meta brand isn’t augmenting your reality — it just wants to suck more money out of it.
Not on the agenda in Glasgow: real climate action
The fastest and most reliable way to reduce emissions is to make fundamental changes to the economy. But how can the economy be transformed in ways that actually improve people’s lives – providing the huge environmental benefits we need without enormous social and economic costs?
The answer is simple: economic localization.
IPCC Climate Report: Capitalism is Unsustainable
Nothing short of economic systems change can save us now.
The Path to and beyond COP26 : Why it’s Important and what needs to Happen Pt III
The global capitalist system that rewards competition and the exploitation of nature for the accumulation of individual wealth can no longer be logically and ethically argued as best system for an economy bounded by social injustices and planetary restraints.
The Path to and Beyond COP26 : Why it’s Important and what needs to Happen Pt II
A balance of power towards the groups that have historically been excluded or had their voices ‘white-washed’ in climate negotiations to include more socially and ecologically just approaches will be an unequivocal factor in finding effective solutions going forward.
The Path to and Beyond COP26: Why it’s Important and what needs to Happen Part I
An overwhelming number of people around the world have listened to the climate science and now want those in power to act with urgency and resolve, rather than continue the conflated lip service we have heard from environmental negotiations over the past three decades.
COP26 — Real Change or Just Another Blah Blah Summit for the Rich and the Powerful?
Will the COP26 have the power to create much-needed systemic change? Many experts, writers, and activists are critical of the underlying motivations behind, as well as the proposed outcomes of, the COP26 summit.
What makes a ‘refugee’? It could be a life-or-death question in the climate crisis
A new analysis by the Environmental Justice Foundation says that international laws covering refugee protection are too narrow for the climate crisis, calling for a new global agreement to protect those who are forced to flee the effects of climate change.
Sensitivity to scale, uniqueness of place and local culture
How do we create functional experiments and case studies of the transition towards regenerative cultures at a scale where feedback is rapid enough so we can learn from mistakes before unwanted side-effects lead to catastrophe and systemic collapse?
The Invisible Hand: Capitalism’s Biggest and Most Destructive Myth
Adam Smith’s most famous and most quoted idea is that of the invisible hand–the notion that if you work for your own selfish goals, the result would still be the same as if you worked to serve society as a whole. But did it stand the test of time?
Mutual credit: an introduction
Discover the world of mutual credit: a means of exchange that doesn’t involve conventional money, interest or banks, and is based on networks of businesses, traders and individuals who get to know and trust each other.
The Pawn That Roars, Selfies And Amusement Parks, Or Localism And Soft Islam: The Futures Of Afghanistan
While there is considerable commentary on the current situation in Afghanistan the literature on the futures of the nation is sparse. This article seeks to address this by developing scenarios on the possible futures of Afghanistan.
