///Transiscope///
Transiscope’s goal is to raise the visibility of all the alternatives working for transition by collecting existing data and creating a single map to display the initiatives.
https://transiscope.org/alternatives-web-portal/
More open resources on https://libre.graineahumus.org
#Transiscope #portal #projects #transition #ecological #social #geolocation #resource #map
https://www.nationofchange.org/2023/10/10/any-antidote-to-climate-anxiety-involves-organizing/
Any antidote to climate anxiety involves organizing
By Paul Messersmith-Glavin -October 10, 2023
..."I put my hope in everyday #people’s ability to rise to the challenge of #remaking #society, rather than the benevolence or wisdom of the ruling class. An essential dimension of the ongoing #ecological #crisis we find ourselves in is the ongoing crisis in society which shapes and directs our relationship with the rest of nature. The relationship between human social and political structures and their impact on the rest of the natural world is one of the most important insights of social theorist Murray Bookchin. His formulation, that the crisis in the environment results from the crisis in society, helps guide our thinking about, and strategies for, ways out. For #Bookchin, in order to resolve the environmental crisis, we have to address its origins in the structures and class relations of society.
Doing the work, nurturing #community and #organizing, and being prepared to act is the best guarantee that we’ll have a life worth living.
The society that delivered the dystopia we daily inhabit will not guide us out of it; only a fundamental change in our relationships and social structures can do that. In this sense, the climate crisis offers us terminal incentive to remake society into one that no longer attempts to dominate non-human nature, that instead creates a society that can live in nature, rather than against it. We need to collectively find another way.
By changing our relations to each other, nurturing community and better developing self-sufficiency in food and energy production, in tandem with developing a mass movement to challenge established power, we develop a trajectory with a better chance of survival. Through self-organization, coordination and developing counter-institutions and dual-power, we increase our odds amidst future uncertainties and unexpected developments.
Those currently in power are creating a future that favors themselves through increased surveillance, authoritarianism and repression. We need to nurture and develop a counter-tendency: one based in love and sustaining healthy relations with each other and the rest of the natural world, while building the capacity to collectively and militantly confront those in power. In “We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice,” Mariame Kaba points out “Changing everything might sound daunting, but it also means there are many places to start, infinite opportunities to collaborate, and endless imaginative interventions and experiments to create. … let’s ask, ‘What can we #imagine for ourselves and the world?’ If we do that, then boundless possibilities of a more just world await us.”...
///The 13 knot rope///
Does this mean anything to you? Very useful for laser-free construction!
We talk about it in context here (https://habitat.graineahumus.org/Ecological-house?lang=en#ancrespip_habitat_implementation)
#building #ecological #healthy #free #exhibition #habitat
///Ecological building///
Back after a long period.
And here is some of the content of an environmental workshop given in the Czech Republic a month ago:
https://habitat.graineahumus.org/Ecological-house?lang=en
#building #ecological #healthy #free #exposure #habitat
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/23/environmentalists-owe-an-enormous-debt-to-julian-assange/
The sacrifices #JulianAssange has made are profound, and his contribution to #ecological as well as #antiwar #movements is enormous. It is incumbent on all to demand an end to his #incarceration and #torment by the #US and #British governments.
#wikileaks #freeassange #environment #ecology #farmland #agriculture #gmo #monsanto #nogmos #health #freepress #freespeech #dropthecharges #weareallassange
'To prevent #ecological #collapse and #create more #peaceful and #sustainable ways to #exist on this #planet, we can’t continue to make #growth and the #exploitation of #finite #resources the #center of our endeavors.'
#ninakoevoets #ecology #earth #economics #pandemic #poverty #climate #change #crisis #environment #awareness #global #nature #conflict #resolution #international #local #cultural #transformation #empathy #collaboration #compassion #interbeing #interdependence
Olá a todos, sou #novato. Tenho interesse em #buddhism, #christianity, #ecological, #foodcooperative, #interfaith, #spirituality e #sustainability. While I like to talk up food co-ops, Fair Trade, organic agro, credit unions, and green power co-ops, along with Greenpeace and US Sierra Club campaigns, I realized that US Big Biz funds fundamentalists to twist Jesus out of shape for a reason. Jesus matters. So, I had already followed my path with the Superfriends Interfaith path of Tai Chi, yoga, Buddhism, Lao Tzu Taoism, and Pantanjali, and Black Elk shamanism, and more. With Jesus.
And then I ran into the anti-theists like Dawkins who treat religion like it´s fundamentalism.
Well, just to take things easy, how about I segue suddenly into citing the beauty of music from The Beatles´ Within You, Without You, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, to Joni Mitchell´s Woodstock and CSNY´s version, The Police´s Invisible Sun, One World, Secret Journey, all the way up to Jack Johnson´s Upside Down. Howdy!
The popular narrative of most societies and governments today is that we have a “climate problem,” which can be solved with “renewable technologies” such as windmills, carbon capture, and efficient batteries. However, global heating is a symptom of a much larger, more fundamental ecological crisis articulated by William Rees, the Limits to Growth study, the Post-Carbon Institute and other ecologically aware observers. Humanity’s urgent and primary challenge is what ecologists call “overshoot,” the predicament of any species that grows beyond the capacity of its #environment. Wolves overshoot the prey in their watershed, algae overshoot the nutrient capacity of a lake, and humanity has overshot the entire capacity of Earth. Global heating, the biodiversity crisis, depleted soils, and disappearing forests are all symptoms of ecological overshoot.
All paths out of #overshoot (genuine solutions) involve a #contraction of the species and a decline of material/energy throughput. There are no exceptions. Furthermore, the contraction of #humanity is inevitable, so all genuine options exist within this framework, whether we respond appropriately or not. And finally, every day that we ignore this reality, the deeper humanity falls into the overshoot rut, the faster the feedbacks take over (forest fires, methane from melting permafrost), and the less chance we have of mitigation.
In several cases, scientists and other colleagues who have attempted to introduce these facts in political settings have told me: “It is a non-starter. They don’t want to hear it.” Okay. That reveals a deeper problem: political inertia and the paradigm trap. If mentioning the real problem to any given group that wants to help is a “non-starter,” I cannot imagine how that group is ever going to be effective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DacbQDV3o-s
https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/the-zeitgeist-of-this-moment
' #Williamson and #Joseph discuss the #economic and #social #systems prevailing in the #world today and what is needed to #heal #society, and some ideas from his #book, The New HumanRights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression.'
#mariannewilliamson #peterjoseph #zeitgeist #conversation #transcript #capitalism #neoliberalism #oppression #socioeconomics #free-market #growth #consumption #economy #ethics #morality #ecosystems #ecological #balance #humanity #compassion #cultural #equity #efficiency #harmony #demarketize #movement #humanrights
https://navdanyainternational.org/pachamama-feeds-us/
"When we #align with #nature’s #powers, the impossible becomes possible, the certainty of collapse becomes the #possibility of #regenerating another path – the #path to return to #Earth as members of one #EarthFamily"
#vandanashiva #shiva #metabolicrift #food #humanright #life #livelihood #gaia #health #soil #water #biodiversity #agriculture #climate #nutrition #farmers #nature #science #society #organic #poison-free #farming #ecological #transformation #ecosystems #pachamamaday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSmJl0AHs00
" #Agroecology is an #ethical, #ecological and #survival #imperative. The second path is the #industrial path based on #fossilfuels and #poisons. This path is the path of #death. It goes against the #principles of #nature and #life."
#vandanashiva #shiva #talk #earth #twopaths #future #food #farming #nurturing #health #solutions #ecosystems #environtalism #biodiversity #humanity #sustainability #biopiracy #humanrights #freedom #intelligence #care
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/greta-thunberg-message-to-the-davos-agenda/
"You can't #negotiate with #physics!"
#gretathunberg #greta #message #world #economic #forum #global #environment #nature #climate #climatechange #ecological #crisis #hope #future
30 years ago, the currently unfolding #ecological disaster was faced, and then buried.
"In 1990 Bob Hawke announced his government wanted the country to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by the year 2005."
The alt-right Fake-News machine avant la lettre:
" from the late 1980s industry groups, free market advocates [the Murdoch media] and climate contrarians got to work to reframe the issue from the science to the economics.
By 1996 much of the damage was done. The advent of John Howard’s government ensured there would be no more genuine progress."
