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Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘Forever the empathetic observer and thinker’
A prolific writer, teacher and communicator trying to alert students, policymakers and the public to the limits to growth on a finite planet, Richard was, in my experience, also humble and a good listener, always interested in different perspectives.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Feeding the World as if People Mattered: Taking the right lessons from small farm systems – book excerpt
Amid plantation monocultures and industrialized farms built to maximize production at the expense of social and ecological costs to the public, there are also many communities where the economy and ecology are not in conflict.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Six ways advocates and organizations can practice solidarity for environmental justice
Forsaking diversity and inclusion won’t save public lands. It will only splinter our movements and weaken our work to build just futures for all. This article is a call to resist reactionary responses to Trump’s attacks on public lands, environmental justice, and DEI.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Exploring a series of surprising sustainability barriers
Fake shopping apps, anti-vaxx dating sites and business as usual through climate disasters are stark reminders of the surreal lengths we'll go to preserve a sense of normality, and how readily corporations will profit from it.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘He was one of the clearest and steadiest voices addressing fossil-fuel dependence’
Richard’s writing never minimized the severity of the challenges before us, but neither did it surrender to hopelessness. Again and again, he insisted that another path could be imagined and designed—one based on ecological understanding, community-based economics, and a renewed culture of commoning.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘Tribute to the man behind the legend’
I’ll never forget it. My family and I had just arrived in San Francisco in 2024 to begin a long tour with my podcast. I immediately reached out to Richard and was welcomed with the kindness that characterised him as much as his work.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘He was a vital inspiration for so much of my life and work’
I feel so deeply grateful to have known him, and for the support and enthusiasm he showed for the Transition movement as it emerged. He was a sensitive and thoughtful man who knew that human beings could do so much better.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
The green transition is seen as a path forward. Critics say it’s a technological fix for a larger crisis
A debate between Bill McKibben and Mark Roller highlights a central question: Can a “green transition” address a crisis rooted in ecological overshoot?
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Gratitude in the Great Unraveling
If collective survival is possible, there will be a lot of work ahead. We’ll be more effective in that work if we’re unburdened by hate and recrimination, and are instead rooted in gratitude for life, nature, and community.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
‘No nature poems, please’: On how we (don’t) talk about nature
It seemed an odd request for a poetry magazine. What stuck with me most, though, was the very notion of a “nature poem.” What is such a thing? How in this age of collapse and dislocation do we define it?
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
What Donald Trump’s view of public lands reveals about his environmental agenda
A man who sees a forest as an unswept floor, who calls coal “beautiful,” who believes offshore wind is driving whales insane and making foxes obese, isn’t just someone with unusual opinions about nature. He’s someone who doesn’t understand the natural world on a fundamental level and doesn’t care to.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘One of my core mentors is gone’
Richard’s clarity and kindness went right into my heart. My activist was ignited again, not to stop the system but to help my community and others adapt. With kindness.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
What belongs in an ecofeminist world?
What would an ecofeminist world include, and what would it leave behind? A classroom exercise explores the values and challenges of imagining systemic change.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Taking on the rich is possible. Our Illinois coalition won a tax on tech giants
Our campaign won a digital advertising revenue tax that may generate over $1.1 billion annually for the state’s budget.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Devastating News: The Loss of Richard Heinberg
On Sunday, July 19, we lost our kind, brilliant friend and colleague, Richard Heinberg.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
The Economics of Kindness: Guy Dauncey shares why we need to design economy as if life matters
In a talk on "community wealth" at the Ecovillage Findhorn, Guy Dauncey shares how kinder, community-based economies can create lasting shared prosperity for people and nature.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
The data center backlash that’s uniting America
The passage of New York's statewide moratorium marks the speed at which the movement is growing — and winning — in both blue and red parts of the country.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
After record-breaking heatwaves, can Britain’s new Prime Minister deliver on climate adaptation?
As the UK emerges from an unprecedented three heatwaves, one of them a record-breaking heatstorm, with public concern rising along with temperatures, the new Prime Minister must put climate breakdown firmly on his agenda.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Africa’s Greater Horn region is facing a looming polycrisis fueled by conflict, prices, climate and disease
The impacts of a strengthening El Niño and the war in Iran highlight in the Greater Horn of Africa, an area already beset by prolonged crisis and conflict, factors that are combining with others to potentially create a major, multicountry polycrisis.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
It’s time to phase out PFAS ‘forever chemicals’
As PFAS “forever chemicals” poison water, food, and air worldwide, progress on regulating their use has been significantly delayed – but things are changing.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
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