>"Climate grief & anxiety are becoming more prevalent as the crisis worsens. Support groups, therapists & college professors are developing tools for grievers."

Amazing article about phytophthora and how plant diseases are hitchhiking on global trade flows and destroying forests and crops around the world. It also address the different ways how both western scientists and indigenous people are _...Read More_

"Ivan Illich’s radical critique of our modern certitudes resonates loudly amid today’s crises."

>"In this era of climate change and crisis, it's time for formats as varied, animal, and leafy as the world they seek to represent."

>"Lawns are bad for you, your pets, and the planet. It’s time to move on to greener pastures."

"Canada’s carbon tax isn’t achieving much for the environment, and because the tax falls heavily on working people, it is more unpopular than _...Read More_

“Since its emergence in mid-century America, the organizational logic of the supermarket has gripped the planet as a whole, reorganizing populations and the microbiology of the products on sale within it. By looking at the tomato—the number _...Read More_

An excellent essay on the importance of Antarctica to the world's environment, and how we can better protect it.

>"The Biden administration is taking a gamble that furthers our reliance on China without providing the essential elements to build our domestic solar industry."

>"Frantic human activity has reduced both cultural and biological diversity. Now we must protect the dwindling alternatives"

The rich 'elites' like to lecture on 'climate change' and what we should all be doing about it; but what exactly are they doing about it?

>"We have thought of humans for a century or more as creatures of the savannah, shaped in every way by grassland life. Not so"

"It’s shaping up to be a tough year for agriculture: With record drought gripping the West, farmers in California’s Central Valley are leaving vast tracts of fertile land unplanted. A January cold snap in Florida devastated tomato crops _...Read More_

Beyond zerocarbon, what other goals should we aim for in creating greener and more inclusive cities? Some great discussion around this topic on the Sustainable City.