Category: Less of What We Don’t Need

The Voyage to Resist the End of the World is one of several fluvial civil society activities that aim to make the colour, flavour and sound of Cop30 unlike anything seen in the history of climate summits. Recent conferences have been dominated by corporate lobbyists and billionaires who fly in on private jets. In the…

After screening out “risky” areas, like those that are vulnerable to earthquakes, a team of researchers from Europe and the U.S. found that the Earth can only safely store about 1,460 gigatons of injected carbon in its sedimentary basins. This is an order of magnitude less than previous estimates…

A decade ago, I heard someone ask Suzan Shown Harjo, the Cheyenne and Arapaho writer and Indian policy advocate, “What’s the most important event in Native American history?” While I imagined her saying something like “the arrival of Europeans to North America” or “the Battle at Wounded Knee,” Harjo replied, “We received teachings about using…

Regenerative farmer Richard Daley recently defined ecological literacy as understanding how living systems work, how they break down and how they can be restored.

And in the permaculture world, enclosure shows up when ideas rooted in Indigenous land stewardship or communal agrarian subsistence are marketed through $1,200 online courses, gated certifications, or branded consulting models based on spectacle and cults of personality.

Chemicals found in everyday products—from plastics and pesticides to cosmetics and non-stick cookware — interfere with the body’s hormone systems in ways that may increase the risk and severity of prostate cancer, according to a new report. Data from a review of nearly 500 studies shows that these endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) may act as potential…

And in the permaculture world, enclosure shows up when ideas rooted in Indigenous land stewardship or communal agrarian subsistence are marketed through $1,200 online courses, gated certifications, or branded consulting models based on spectacle and cults of personality.

On October 1st a group of Santa Fe New Mexicans inspired by Jijmegen, Sweden began reading the names and ages of people who have died in Gaza since October 7, 2023. There are 828 Jewish Israelis on this list, and nearly 69,000 Palestinians.

There are numerous books that speak about the legacy of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’s destruction.[0] There is no place they have intervened where the people have become more prosperous. This defensive military alliance that is only versed in being offensive, consumes much energy to maintain the imperialist hegemony; energy that can be used…

New Delhi’s decision to auction, for the first time in the country, 13 offshore mineral blocks for deep-sea mining, vide the Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2023, has met with a rare show of political unity in Kerala. Following protest demonstrations by fish workers’ unions, the ruling party and the opposition in…