Human Predators, Human Prey
This is Part I of a 3-part essay that uses predation as a metaphor to unpack power relations in human societies. Read part 2, part 3 Introduction A lion runs down a gazelle; a raiding band brandishing clubs, bows,...
How the Ultra-Rich Can Help Fix the Affordable Housing Crisis
Down the street from my office, a luxury residential tower is rising, the fifth such project in Boston in the last decade. The 61-story “One Dalton Place” is being marketed as “New England’s tallest and most luxurious residential building.”...
Drew Dellinger: “If we had more imagination, we could have less capitalism”
Listening to Drew Dellinger‘s poetry regularly gives me goosebumps. Very shortly it will give you goosebumps too. He is a US-based writer, poet, speaker and teacher whose passions revolve around ecology, social justice, cosmology, social change and transformation. He uses arts...
The Community Resilience Reader interview – Go Green Radio
Virtually every American city and town has an insurmountable backlog of infrastructure maintenance and replacement. In addition, cities from coast to coast are grappling with the worsening effects of climate change, such as stronger storms and greater temperature...
Can Climate Change Be Stopped by Turning Air Into Gasoline?
David Fridley Richard Heinberg
It sounds too good to be true. Is it?
Remembering Grenfell: Who Are Our Cities For?
Local gentrification cycles have been “supercharged” by the fact that many cities are now a global destination to park investment capital.
Electric Cars to the Rescue?
A lot of hope is riding on the wheels of the world’s three million electric cars. So, how’s the EV revolution going? And even if it’s going well, is it really the best strategy? Those are the questions I...
“Always the Same, Always Different”: a Response to Ted Trainer
The late John Peel once said of The Fall that they were “always the same, always different”. The same could be said of Ted Trainer’s critiques of Transition. He just published another one, many of the points in which...
Systems Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Personal Resilience
In discussing climate change and all our other eco-social predicaments, how does one distinguish accurate information from statements intended to elicit either false hope or needless capitulation to immediate and utter doom? And, in cases where pessimistic outlooks do...
Puerto Rico: Deciding Its Energy Future
The immediate energy nightmare in Puerto Rico is gradually winding down, with electrical power now available to about 90 percent of households (some rural areas are still without power). But it’s clear to nearly everyone that a reversion to...