Posts in ENVIRONMENTALISTS
Cosmolocalism and CANs - with locals and refugees - at Manchester Urban Diggers (MUD) and their market garden
As the blades of Dogger Bank start turning, renewable energy looks on track to help us stay at 1.5C of warming
“Who would want the future to be the endless repetition of the past?” Some new level of machine-biology evolution is coming, suggests Karen Bakker and Mark C. Taylor
Our societies are tilting against being choked with plastics. So how does Lego get on the right side of history?
Chris Smaje thinks local food production will save us: George Monbiot responds that too much risks global starvation. An advanced localism is at stake
COMMUNITY, LOCALISM, NEW ECONOMICS, 4TH SECTOR, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, PLANETARIAN, REGEN ECONOMIES, YES WE CANpat kanefood politics, food, george monbiot
Powered by methanol made of gas from landfill, the "Laura Maersk" is a major step towards net-zero shipping
Redonda reborn: the transformed and revived Caribbean island that's exciting environmentalists everywhere
Hannah Ritchie asks: how do we become the First Generation to be truly sustainable - rather than worry about being the last?
ACTION, YOUTH, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, FEATURED, FUTURES, LEARNING, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANETARIANpat kaneTED, big data, data, climate crisis, progress
Fast-fashion can solve its waste problem by using recycled textiles—but we have to push pressure on brands to use it
Jeremy Rifkin creates the biggest picture: an Age of Progress superseded by an Age of Resilience
We'll have to reimagine our holiday season, as climate crisis compels us to change our means of travel and destinations
Norway's Minus makes "carbon-negative" chairs that you "subscribe" to - ensuring they end up as bio-char
4TH SECTOR, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, INGENUITY, NEW ECONOMICS, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, ARTISTS, REGEN ECONOMIES, TECHNOLOGYpat kanedesign, design ethics, circular economy, furniture, norway
If you really want a climate-friendly garden, then lower your shovel, and become a eco-slacker
There is a pluriverse of alternatives, movements of radical transformation, across the planet. What if they “outscaled” together?
“You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.” The pioneering systems thinker Donella Meadows, profiled by Kate Raworth
Birmingham's Zero Carbon House is doable, scalable and beautiful - and expresses what the "climate majority" want, says Rupert Read
“If we design well, we design for shared aliveness”. Speaking from China, John Thackara lays out an economy defined by care
REGEN ECONOMIES, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, INGENUITY, NEW ECONOMICS, NEW ENERGY SOURCESpat kaneJohn thackara, ecodesign, ecocivilisation, design, DESIGN, design thinking, design ethics
If we're to overcome climate paralysis and inactivity, hope will come from the youth and civil society, say Christiana Figueres and Kevin Anderson
BEHAVIOUR, BIG PICTURE, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, FUTURES, PLANETARIAN, PLANET Apat kaneChristiana Figueres, Kevin Anderson, climate crisis, climate emergency, climate breakdown, united nations
Vandana Shiva, Robert Pirsig, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Einstein and others speak on the inner change that system (and climate) change requires
Understanding time - how different it is for individuals and cultures - may be the key to the race against climate change