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The Path to and Beyond COP26: Why it’s Important and what needs to Happen Part I

03/11/2121

Part I: Time for planet-altering commitments This article originally appeared on NatashaChassagne.com in October, 2021. We are in the lead up to the most pivotal climate conference in history, from which the outcomes have the potential to eithe…

COP26 — Real Change or Just Another Blah Blah Summit for the Rich and the Powerful?

02/11/2121

At the COP26 summit in Glasgow, more than 100 world leaders representing over 85% of the planet's forests have committed to ending deforestation and land degradation by 2030, a British government statement says. Among the nations taking part are C…

What makes a ‘refugee’? It could be a life-or-death question in the climate crisis

28/10/2121

This article was originally published in Mongabay In late 2020, a succession of violent storms slammed into Central America during the worst Atlantic hurricane season on record. The effects were devastating. Flooding and mudslides caused…

Sensitivity to scale, uniqueness of place and local culture

27/10/2121

One way to avoid — or at least minimize — the risk that new ‘solutions’ will result in catastrophic and widespread unintended consequences is to limit the scale of experimentation. At the local and regional scale, feedback is faster and ecological li…

The Invisible Hand: Capitalism’s Biggest and Most Destructive Myth

19/10/2121

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. In economic terms this means that…

Mutual credit: an introduction

15/10/2121

“It only requires that we each take control of our own credit and give it to those individuals and businesses that merit it and withhold it from those that do not.” – Thomas Greco What is mutual credit? It’s a means of trading, of exchange, tha…

The Pawn That Roars, Selfies And Amusement Parks, Or Localism And Soft Islam: The Futures Of Afghanistan

13/10/2121

Article by Sohail Inayatullah, Satya Tanner, Roar Bjonnes, Jose Ramos, and Kiran Ahmed While there is considerable commentary on the current situation in Afghanistan the literature on the futures of the nation is sparse. We seek to address this by…

The Future of the Electric Car: A Systems Change Perspective

15/09/2121

Albert Einstein supposedly said that “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” This statement, made a long time before global warming, is acutely relevant today, not only in solving chronic health problems bu…

Resist Locally, Renew Globally

20/08/2121

The Promise and Pitfalls of Localism The fact that the language of localism is being increasingly co-opted by authoritarians around the world is itself a sign of localism’s appeal. Left uprooted and adrift by the globalized economy, people are des…

How I became hopeful again through a year of local, grassroots action

12/08/2121

In January 2020, I committed to living as locally as possible for one year in my hometown of Mountain View, California, and blog my experiences. I was highly motivated. I felt that our society was drifting toward disaster and that our toxic medi…

7 Things I Learned by Collaborating with Indigenous Wisdom Keepers

11/08/2121

This article first appeared in Yes! magazine, June 2021. I first met Indigenous wisdom keepers as a child. After days of off-road driving to the Gran Sabana in Venezuela, we had arrived at the ancestral lands of the Pemón people, where they still …

20 lessons from The Response: How communities are changed by disasters

10/08/2121

What effect do natural and other disasters have on the underlying culture of a community? This was the driving question that led to the development of Shareable’s The Response project three years ago. On the heels of the release of “Sharing Cities…

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Rewilding and Permafrost Conservation with Paul Streifeneder

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Paul Streifeneder
March 23, 2022

In the fifth episode of the A Systems Change Deep Dive podcast, we explore rewilding and permafrost conservation with Paul Streifeneder, Project Manager at the Pleistocene & Permafrost Foundation.

Digital Verification and Community Empowerment with Jean-Pierre du Plessis

Apr 09, 2022

In the eighth episode of the A Systems Change Deep Dive podcast, we explore Digital Monitoring, Verification and Reporting (D-MRV) of Nature-based Projects and Community Empowerment with Jean-Pierre du Plessis, Co-Founder of African Data Technologies.

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