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Farm to Forms – the Epicness of Trying to Establish and Run a Farm in France

Tue, 02/13/2024 - 05:18
If I only had one wish, it would be to spend more time with my sheep and less with my computer… because you can eat a leg of lamb with onions and cooked carrots… you can’t feed a nation on paper and computer components.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

How Long Has Humanity Been at War With Itself?

Tue, 02/13/2024 - 05:17
Is large-scale intra-specific warfare Homo sapiens’ condition or can our species strive to achieve global peace?
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows

Tue, 02/13/2024 - 04:01
If global warming shuts down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which is crucial for carrying heat from the tropics to the northern latitudes, how abrupt and severe would the climate changes be?
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

After Dubai — Towards a “just, orderly, and equitable” fossil fuel phase out

Tue, 02/13/2024 - 03:39
The COP28 text does not simply call for transitioning away from fossil fuels but rather stipulates that this transition must be “just, orderly, and equitable,” a much more challenging prospect.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Whither energy?

Fri, 02/09/2024 - 00:45
If we put all our efforts into creating a system of electric heat, what we’re going to produce is very little warmth for most people, a whole lot of wasted resources and toxic trash — and no capacity to produce any energy at all within a few decades.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Towards an unliveable planet: Climate’s 2023 annus horribilis

Fri, 02/09/2024 - 00:44
The heat and extreme climate records of 2023 shocked scientists. So where are we heading? Given current trends, the world will zoom past 2°C of warming and the Paris climate goal of limiting warming to 1.5-2°C.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Putting justice at the heart of Transition

Fri, 02/09/2024 - 00:43
What if… the Transition movement could play a part in putting justice at the heart of the ‘transition’ we’re working towards, in our communities and beyond?
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Commons and Commoning: A Progressive Vision of a Good Society

Thu, 02/08/2024 - 02:13
By developing the commons paradigm and discourse, its practices and ethical values will have many valuable impacts, not just in the agriculture and food sectors, but more universally.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Steve Keen: “On the Origins of Energy Blindness”

Thu, 02/08/2024 - 02:11
On this episode, economist Steve Keen offers a deep forensic history of why modern economic theory has neglected the role of energy in productivity - and why this “Energy Blindness” is now a major blindspot in how our culture views the present - and the future.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

“Warning. Data Inadequate.”

Thu, 02/08/2024 - 02:10
Due to its incorporation of a simple “neural network” loosely analogous to the human brain, the perceptron of 1958 is recognized as a forerunner of today’s most successful “artificial intelligence” projects – from facial recognition systems to text extruders like ChatGPT.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Approaching the Energy Cliff

Wed, 02/07/2024 - 05:08
The longer we wait to act, the higher the cliff, the more painful the landing, and the more difficult the transition to a steady state economy.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

The Laboratory of the Commons

Wed, 02/07/2024 - 05:07
We can only say very generally that something on which we mutually depend for our survival and well-being is a commons, and through our implication into a commons, we are called forth to action, toward the need to collaboratively govern this commons together (be it digital, urban, educational, atmospheric, etc.). But beyond this, their logics are diverse.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Humanity’s new era of “global boiling”: Climate’s 2023 annus horribilis

Wed, 02/07/2024 - 05:07
With devastating extreme heat and storms and floods, 2023 was the first year 1.5°C warmer than the 1850-1900 baseline, and both Antarctic sea-ice loss and record northern hemisphere sea-surface temperatures were way beyond the ranges projected by climate models.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Deep Winter Beauty

Wed, 02/07/2024 - 03:36
Deep winter has given me enough time to take a long pause to appreciate what I have. At this moment. Whatever I have right in front of me.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Is World Population Peaking Now?

Wed, 02/07/2024 - 03:24
I think population decline will be a relief, like an escape valve in a pressure cooker. As we shrink in numbers we will grow in other areas, like resources per capita and free time.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Mysterious Materialism

Wed, 02/07/2024 - 03:05
I’m glad to have a part, and to participate in this incredible life. It gives me pleasure to be on the side of all life, and to be an agent trying to nudge humanity in an adaptively beneficial direction.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

‘Established democratic parties ignored problems of farmers for far too long’

Tue, 02/06/2024 - 05:12
The anger of Europe’s farmers is largely justified, but it is heading for dangerous territory. A transition to agroecology is urgently needed in the interests of all farmers.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Old forests are critically important for slowing climate change and merit immediate protection from logging

Tue, 02/06/2024 - 05:12
As scientists who have spent decades studying forest ecosystems and the effects of climate change, we believe that it is essential to start protecting carbon storage in these forests. In our view, there is ample scientific evidence to justify an immediate moratorium on logging mature and old-growth forests on federal lands.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Cleaning Out the Basement of My Life

Tue, 02/06/2024 - 05:11
As we resist, we celebrate the geography of the true superpowers on this planet, the nations that are trying to lead the way to a nuclear-free, bunker-free future where children won’t have to even imagine hiding in their basements.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Using Solar Commons to Decentralize and Share Solar Energy

Tue, 02/06/2024 - 03:35
Energy from the sun is sure one of the most pervasive forms of common wealth. So why not capture and share that wealth more widely with everyone?
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

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