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The Future of the Electric Car: A Systems Change Perspective
Innovating scientists and economic policy makers committed to maximizing profit margins promise that we can stop global warming with great inventions coupled with a free market to sell them. The electric vehicle (EV) is one such great invention. But is it really that simple?
Resist Locally, Renew Globally
Resistance to corporate rule at the policy level will need to be coupled with the generation of alternatives, to fill the gaps left by the departing old system.
How I became hopeful again through a year of local, grassroots action
What can living locally teach us about change-making? A restrospect on a year of local engagement, complete with the top ten lessons Neal Gorenflo took from his local living experiment.
7 Things I Learned by Collaborating with Indigenous Wisdom Keepers
Through her own childhood experience and the making of short film, One Word Sawalmem, director, Natasha Deganello Giraudie shares the core lessons that she has learned about indigenous cultures.
20 lessons from The Response: How communities are changed by disasters
What effect do natural and other disasters have on the underlying culture of a community? Through the lessons of The Response podcast, book, and film we’re learning that they bring out the best in people and strengthen community ties.
Indigenous to Life — Coming Home to Place
Regeneration is about more than just ‘net positive impact’ or ‘doing good’. It is about evolving the capacity to manifest the unique and irreplaceable gift of every person, community and place in service to the life-regenerating context in which we are all embedded.
Nine Ways to Create a Local, Regenerative Economy
We need to address the failures of capitalism and its ineffective reforms head-on by creating decentralized and cooperative local economies, emphasizing local production with local resources, to meet local needs, and to build local wealth.
Economic Degrowth: The Solution to Climate Breakdown
Certainly, global warming will negatively effect certain resources and thus reduce economic growth—but, ironically, few economists will admit that degrowth may be the only solution to solve climate change.
Local food and global food security
Local food systems provide a truly sustainable alternative to unwieldy and environmentally damaging global food chains.
Highlights: The Corona Chronicles – Envisioning a New Normal for Regeneration and Thriving – by Ralph Thurm
“The Corona Chronicles” by Ralph Thurm is a must-read for all those that want to move to wiser action, beyond empty sustainability promises, fatalism or the illusion of progress.
Scientist Who Spent Year at ‘Epicenter’ of Climate Crisis Warns World May Already Have Hit Arctic ‘Tipping Point’
Atmospheric scientist, Markus Rex, says that we still have a short window to save the summer Arctic sea ice. What systemic changes do we need to put in place to ensure that happens?
World’s Peasant Farmers Unveil ‘Anti-Imperialist Manifesto’ in Defense of Nature
Via Campesina, a movement representing millions of people across the globe, has released a powerful manifesto highlighting the destructive role of imperialism.
E.F. Schumacher and the Limitations of Green Capitalism
E F Schumacher’s groundbreaking work may have spurned the sustainability movement. But green capitalism is still taking us closer to planetary breakdown.
Restoring Broken Boundaries: Scientist Johan Rockstrom’s Message for Dark Times
Johan Rockstrom’s work is making a splash in the climate narrative. But is changing our habits enough to divert the course we are on? Or are there more powerful culprits to blame?
The Radical Power of Your Sourdough Starter
What does fermentation have to do with systems change? More than you’d think, according to author and fermentation enthusiast, Sandor Katz.
