It’s almost like we shouldn’t leave the climate crisis to the market
The collapse of SolarZero is a massive red flag.
powerdown
Power cuts or Powerdown?
Powercuts in a wealthy country like New Zealand don’t make us third world. It’s bog standard neoliberalism which has both impeded upkeep of our infrastructure and blocked meaningful climate transition. Third world is when you can’t afford to fix, maintain and futureproof society. Neoliberalism is when you do that by choice.
Sustainability Sunday
So many good initiatives that demonstrate that sustainability and community resiliency are intertwined. The sheer numbers of people involved now is heartening at a time when we are inundated with what is going wrong.
We’ve never had so much choice in what we can do to effect good change. We know the problems, now is the time to put our attention to the solutions, what is already working. and then get on with it.
Climate Commision Chair: it’s time to reform the “plant and pollute” Emissions Trading Scheme
This good news bodes well.
parts per million
Prince Louis and the perfect tweet.
Last chance to see or finally acting as if our lives depend on it?
That IPCC report telling it like it is. Ball is in our court.
Hope Punk 2022
Here’s a kind of map to a future where things work out.
The pandemic is resiliency training
Fear and loathing on both sides of the fence, or adaptation and resiliency? We do have some choices.
Revisiting Riverton: the Longwood Loop food resiliency project
Key here is the resilience politics of greenies, DIYers and anarchists, where we just don’t wait for the government to act, we get on with and build the new ways ourselves.
Hospo resilience: pairing covid response and climate action
We’re now in the time of synchronous and overlapping crises. With Delta Level Two and ongoing restrictions affecting the hospitality sector, and eighteen months into our covid response, solutions need to be for the long haul. One of the keys to that is positive adaptation.
Ways out of the climate catastrophe
As the IPCC drops its grim, damning report on humans and climate change, and as we are surrounded by social and mainstream media narratives of disaster, we desperately need cogent and hopeful visions of where we can go next, and stories of futures where things work out.
What if saving the world meant life was tasty, beautiful and just long enough?
The nasty, brutish and short meme is a failure of the imagination. We can have less and still live good lives.
Climate transition transport and the rural road tumbleweeds
Beyond the cycle/car wars.
Will Technology Solve Climate Change?
What if we actually planned to reduce energy usage significantly while revamping the economy to promote happiness and well-being? Then it would be far easier to replace our remaining energy usage with renewable sources. – Richard Heinberg
Climate news and personal actions
2021, the climate emergency is still an emergency. Personal action is not sufficient but it’s still necessary.
Being real about the climate emergency
Green tech, negative emissions and carbon capture and storage won’t save us, but we have other options.
Powerdown part two
Christchurch transition engineer Susan Krumdieck lays out the realities of the various crises we are facing, and why green tech won’t save us. What can we do instead?
Power, the Acceleration of Cultural Evolution, and Our Best Hope for Survival
Originally published by Post Carbon Institute, Richard Heinberg writes about humanity’s relationship with power and how this presents both great danger and great opportunity.
Climate action: everything we do matters
As the climate catastrophe gets to another level of intensity, building new systems can be an antidote to feeling powerless or afraid in the face of the crisis.
Climate Change actions for the middle classes
It’s time to put our money and resources where our hearts and minds and values are.
Powerdown
Climate change, Peak Oil, resource depletion. Some of our options are better than others.