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  • Climate solutions,  Well-being,  What We Can Do series

    Thought for the day

    "To some of us, much of the time, it feels exceedingly unlikely that humans will survive this -- yet it's a simple fact that if we respond robustly, we can survive this."

    March 23, 2022
  • Climate solutions,  Creating social change,  What We Can Do series

    Let’s do better than Recycling

    Recycling is a good thing, isn't it? Not the way it's currently being done. Here's how you can do better.

    March 8, 2022
  • Creating social change,  Economic Resilience,  Teaching powerdown

    How does buying local support a better economy?

    Do you buy local? Or buy from massive international corporations? Here's why your decision makes a big difference.

    September 28, 2021
  • Creating social change,  Teaching powerdown

    Disenfranchisement

    We can't solve our "environmental" issues without resolving racism and economic disenfranchisement

    September 16, 2021
  • Economic Resilience,  Teaching powerdown

    The Economy

    Pick apart any environmental or social problem you can think of, and you find that The Economy is running the show. Our society has made many of these errant choices because of The Economy. If we’re going to solve any…

    May 11, 2021
  • Teaching powerdown

    Biocapacity

    The world has enough for everyone’s needs, but not everyone’s greed,” Mahatma Gandhi Biocapacity is a concept known by several names: The carrying capacity of the Earth. Ecological footprint. Global footprint. They all refer to the total impact mankind has…

    May 6, 2021
  • Teaching powerdown

    Understand Peak

    Peak oil is the concept that oil is a limited and finite resource, that when its production history is modeled, it will follow a certain profile. This concept of peak can be useful when we talk about any limited resource.…

    May 5, 2021
  • Teaching powerdown

    What is Sustainability?

    Nature has taught me that if humans don’t figure out what revolution really means, nature will make the revolution despite us. — Tawana Petty (brown 2017 p.72) “Sustainability” is one of those terms that you’ll hear tossed around in many…

    April 29, 2021
  • Teaching powerdown

    The Climate Crisis

    You undoubtedly know some things about global warming and climate change. Perhaps you know quite a lot about it, or perhaps you know a little bit. I’m not going to attempt to cover this topic comprehensively — that would take…

    April 29, 2021
  • Creating social change,  Teaching powerdown

    Introducing the What We Can Do series

    Right now we’re in a new era: There was 2019 and prior. And there is now. For many of us, these are two completely different realities. Maybe you’ve lost your job, or had dramatic changes to your working world. Maybe…

    April 27, 2021
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