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Modern Food Systems to Emerge in New Decade of Family Farming
— Author: Duncan Macqueen, IIED — Global farmers affirmed the vital relevance of small-holders at the World Rural Forum in Bilbao, Spain recently, highlighting how through innovative approaches they...
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How Fashion Is Now Helping to Drive Climate Change
— A prescient article in Fast Company, “We have to fix fashion if we want to survive the climate crisis”, outlines the disastrous environmental impact of the garment industry’s obsession with fast...
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Two Questions That Could Save Us From Collapse
— It’s hard to believe that current systems are the best we can do. We could be thriving as communities and societies, rather than facing extreme risks. It’s time to investigate what might work best....
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Is Solving Problems the Ideal of Democracy and Capitalism?
— Societies can solve important problems. Doing so is the essence of sustainability. But systems innovation is necessary. Why do many people hold concepts of democracy and capitalism dear, even as...
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Why Stop at Basic Income and a Living Wage?
— We can ask the big question: Out of all conceivable economic system designs, which ones might be best at helping us to focus on and solve problems that matter? Living wage is heating up as an issue....
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Wellbeing Centrality: Toward an Economics and Politics of Meaning
— Background and Motivation In December 2016, Steven Hawking sounded the alarm on inequality and other pressing problems that he warned could destroy civilization and the ecosystem before we humans are...
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Zero Waste Guy Fights for His Right To Repair His iPhone
— Eighteen years owning a cell phone Cell phones have come a long way since the early days. I remember my very first cell phone. It was a Nokia brick phone that was given to me by my parents for...
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An Economy of Meaning, or Bust
— It’s not often that a scientist gets to use the words love, creativity, and wisdom in a paper, especially when writing about economics. Perhaps that’s because economics, the dismal science, is...
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The Biggest Offshore Wind Project in the US is Underway
— From the steady growth in market share of electric cars to continuous improvement and expansion of solar energy technology, it appears the world is going renewable—the age of fossil fuels is slowly...
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Is a Zero Waste Night Out Possible?
00:02 I’m Hayley Pearce and, like most people, I rely a lot on plastic. 00:05 I’m guilty. 00:06 Most of my day-to-day items like shampoo and shower gel, make-up 00:09 and even the takeaways I order...
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Sikkim’s Eco-Tourism Evolution
— Sikkim, India’s first organic state, lies in the north-east region of the country. Almost half the state is under forest cover, supporting many rare and indigenous species of flora and fauna, so it’s...
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Environmental Economics #21
— In this video Paul Andersen explains how economic models, like supply and demand, can be applied to environmental systems. The market forces will not protect environmental services until proper...
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Expensive Fjällräven
— In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at why Fjällräven is so expensive. Specifically, I look at the sustainability and environmentally-friendly aspects of products like...
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Seed Libraries Fight for the Right to Share
— It’s easy to take seeds for granted. Tiny dry pods hidden in packets and sacks, they make a brief appearance as gardeners and farmers collect them for future planting then later drop them into soil....
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Rethinking Sustainable Development in Terms of Commons
Wouldn’t sustainable development initiatives, mechanisms and policies considerably gain in effectiveness if they were planned and assessed in relation to the principles, processes and practices of...
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Coalescing Around the Commons
Most of us who are actively seeking to create a world where people and nature can thrive are actually nurturing a piece of the commons. By telling our stories and how they relate to the commons, we...
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Making Indian Cities Inclusive Means Making Them More Walkable
— Walking, cycling and using public transport are the main ways of getting around Indian cities. But as India’s cities expand and car ownership increases, pedestrians are being marginalised – and their...
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The Change in the World Map of Energy
— A $ 20 billion investment plan plans to supply electricity to Singapore from what will be, for the time being, the world’s largest solar farm: Sun Cable. Located in Australia and linked by a...
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Reinventing Movements
— Douglas Rushkoff in an introductory video talked about the need for “bringing together all these kinds of real-time experience movements into something that can shape our collective agency”, and I...
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High-Density Farming
— Agriculture has had to continually adapt to sustain the rising population with enough food. In the current situation, the amount of arable land is being depleted by the emergence of cities and...
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