My IPCC Take-away: Imagine. Take Action. Repeat.
November 14, 2018
Rob Hopkins looks at the impact of the most recent IPCC report through the lens of imagination.
The Secret of Eternal Growth? It’s Wishful Thinking
November 12, 2018
I want to believe in eternal economic growth. Given what humanity is facing with climate change and other consequences of our collective consumption, it must be awfully comforting to have faith in a cornucopian future where no one ever...
Our Bonus Decade
October 30, 2018
“The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during...
Durable Goods
October 27, 2018
Ed. note: The post below is a transcription of Post Carbon Fellow Stephanie Mills’ remarks at the 50 year anniversary of the publication of the Whole Earth Catalog. Gratitude to Mother Earth, ground of being. Gratitude to Stewart and...
When it comes to sustainability, we’re a society of distracted drivers
October 24, 2018
Rather than sharing the distractions now capturing the attention of other drivers, we must each retrain ourselves to pay attention to the instrument panel and the road ahead of us.
The Response Podcast: The Impact of Northern California Fires on the Undocumented Community
October 23, 2018
by Robert Raymond, Shareable The third episode of The Response travels to Northern California to provide a unique perspective on the topics of climate change and immigration. California’s climate-fueled weather conditions have left the state in an extreme condition that has led...
When a warming climate threatens your dinner plate
October 15, 2018
Introducing Understanding Food and Climate Change : A suite of free digital resources Whether you’re a student in Osaka, Japan, tucking into a bento box of salted fish and edamame, a University professor in Dakar munching on Senegalese yassa, or...
The Response Podcast: How Puerto Ricans are Restoring Power to the People
October 11, 2018
by Robert Raymond, Shareable In this second episode of our new radio documentary series The Response, we shine a spotlight on Puerto Rico. When Hurricane Maria slammed into the island about a year ago, it resulted in thousands of deaths...
The Response Podcast: Radical Approaches to Disaster Relief in New York
October 5, 2018
The Response is a new podcast documentary series exploring the remarkable communities that arise in the aftermath of natural disasters.
Stephen Duncombe on Imagination, Spectacle and Desire
October 2, 2018
One of the best books I read this summer was Stephen Duncombe’s ‘Dream: re-imagining progressive politics in an age of fantasy’. Written during the last days of the presidency of George W. Bush, it was a plea for progressive...