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B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

What Energy Paradigm Might Underpin Degrowth and Steady State Economies?

Resilience - Tue, 02/06/2024 - 03:12
Despite the increasing depth and granularity of non-growth economic model research, one aspect is currently relatively under-represented in these efforts, namely the nature of the energy paradigm that could underpin societies operating in this form. 

GTA in WSF 2024 - [Nature’s Tapestry: Redefining Boundaries & Territories, An Exploration in South Asia] venue addition

Global Tapestry of Alternatives - Mon, 02/05/2024 - 21:39
On this page, you will find the activities where will participate in the World Social Forum 2024, either as co-organizer or with the presence of some its Facilitation Team members. To see the full agenda and more information please visit the official WSF site. GTA in WSF 2024 The GTA as Co-organizers GTAGTAGTAGTA

News from AMERIPEN and Every Can Counts

Resource Recycling News - Mon, 02/05/2024 - 15:49

News from AMERIPEN and Every Can Counts

AMERIPEN opened registration for the first webinar in its “Preparing for Packaging Producer Responsibility in the U.S.” series. The Feb. 21 session will cover state timelines.  Every Can Counts established a U.S. chapter to encourage aluminum beverage can recycling.

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Surprise! Saudi Arabia is no longer wholly-owned gas station of the United States

Resilience - Sun, 02/04/2024 - 07:08
It has been apparent to anyone paying attention that Saudi Arabia was and would be limiting its oil production. We got another reminder last week.

GTA in WSF 2024

Global Tapestry of Alternatives - Sat, 02/03/2024 - 06:36
On this page, you will find the activities where will participate in the World Social Forum 2024, either as co-organizer or with the presence of some its Facilitation Team members. To see the full agenda and more information please visit the official WSF site. GTA in WSF 2024 The GTA as Co-organizers GTAGTAGTAGTA

SB 54 advisory board elects StopWaste director chair

Resource Recycling News - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 14:50

SB 54 advisory board elects StopWaste director chair

The first few days of February saw several big moments for California's extended producer responsibility law for packaging, with a first advisory board meeting and a well-attended public question-and-answer session. 

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A localized alternative to ‘disaster capitalism

Resilience - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 03:52
What if, when the next disaster hits – whatever its cause or location – the most numerous, doable and beneficial ideas lying around were those that support the rebuilding of local economies. This is what I call “disaster localization”.

A Mexican Entrepreneur With a Painful Past Is Finding New Purpose With a Recycling Startup

Resilience - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 03:15
Eleno Ulloa endured ridicule, rejection, drug and alcohol addiction, and two deportations from the United States. Today, he is his family’s breadwinner and, with his recycling business, a sign of hope for many in Nayarit.

Don’t Be Fooled By Biden’s Gas U-Turn

Resilience - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 02:49
We are running out of fuel. We need an urgent plan to contract our energy needs if we are to survive the impending crash; there will be no “clean” energy until governments come clean.

The Future Is Feral—and Climate Resilient

Resilience - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 05:31
What would our world look like if we, as humans, learn to adapt to plants instead of making plants adapt to us?

Can ‘degrowth’ solve our ecological, social & economic problems?

Resilience - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 04:58
Economist Tim Parrique speaks with co-host Rachel Donald on this episode of the Mongabay Newscast about the economic model known as “degrowth.”

Beyond and against homogenisation: Advancing diversity through Democratic Confederalism

Resilience - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 04:00
Although homogeneity has been advanced by a societal system that presents itself as the only one possible and a product of a determinist evolutionary process, it can still be reversed so that diversity can flourish once again.

Are you breaking cultural glass?

Resilience - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 03:27
Last month, global bank HSBC was accused of duping the public for helping to raise £37 billion for companies investing in new oil and gas fields. It shines an urgent light on why meaningful climate action remains largely illusionary.

Mario Giampietro: “Models with Meaning – Changing Social Practices”

Resilience - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 03:06
On this episode, Nate is joined by biophysical analyst Mario Giampietro to unpack his decades of research on a wide-lens view of the challenges facing the human system.

Bodies, Minds, and the Artificial Intelligence Industrial Complex

Resilience - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 02:54
Computers, be they boxes on desktops or the phones in pockets, are the most complex of tools to come into common daily use. And the computer network we call the Cloud is the most complex socio-technical system in history.

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