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The European Union’s economic security strategy update

Mar 26, 2024 | Economy

By Emily Benson in CSIS….As partners advance to this new era of technology-driven economic security agendas, governments will need to work concertedly to break the long-standing barriers between trade policy and national security.

Led by Its Youth, U.S. Sinks in World Happiness Report

Led by Its Youth, U.S. Sinks in World Happiness Report

Mar 21, 2024 | Community

For the first time since the first World Happiness Report was issued in 2012, the United States was not ranked among the world’s Top 20 happiest countries. The drop was driven by people under 30. The New York Times Read full article in The New York...

The Eco-Civilization Framework

Mar 19, 2024 | Environment

As the planet burns, authoritarian populists dominate politics, oil executives direct the COP process, and the wealthy elite pull further away from everyone else, it is difficult not to draw the conclusion that the movement for a beneficial future...

A starting point for degrowth: The Costa Rica “Pura Vida” meaning

A starting point for degrowth: The Costa Rica “Pura Vida” meaning

Mar 18, 2024 | Economy

By Juan Ignacio Marín Degrowth is a theory, a movement, and a practice with a long and distinguished history. The excellent Wikipedia article (worth consulting) starts this way: Degrowth or post-growth economics is an academic and social movement...

“Lean Weaving”: Creating networks for a future of resilience and regeneration

Mar 18, 2024 | Resilience

by Curtis Ogden in the International Institute for Social Change….“The more flexible the sub-systems, the longer the expected life of the system as a whole.”

Chartbook 268: “How can we not know?”: CAR and the challenge of tracking a silent crisis.

Mar 18, 2024 | Worldviews

By Adam Tooze in Chartbook 268…It was at a moment when many of us were discussing the polycrisis as a concept with which to grasp the current world. Was an explosion of child deaths the ultimate indicator of crisis?

History’s crisis detectives: How we’re using maths and data to reveal why societies collapse – and clues about the future

Mar 18, 2024 | Polycrisis

by Daniel Hoyer in The Conversation….Our goal is to find out what drove these societies into crisis, and then what factors seem to have determined whether people could course-correct to stave off devastation.

Global energy-related CO2 emissions hit record high in 2023 – IEA

Mar 18, 2024 | Environment

by Reuters in Climate Home News…Global emissions from energy rose by 410 million tonnes, or 1.1%, in 2023 to 37.4 billion tonnes, hitting a record hight

Crop insurance costs explode

Mar 18, 2024 | Economy

by Robert Arnason in The Western Producer…Those massive payments are connected to the severe drought of 2021, which crushed crop yields across much of Western Canada. There’s also the factor of higher prices for grains, oilseeds and pulse crops, which exacerbated the size of crop insurance payments.

Forget the partisan hype, Aust farmers are preparing for the extremes of climate change

Mar 18, 2024 | Environment

by Jamie Seidel in Cosmos Magazine…Farmers consider the animal breeds and crop types they produce to be flexible choices. Others are prepared to relocate operations to chase the conditions their particular produce needs.

Pivotal moment for humanity as disasters threaten to converge

Mar 18, 2024 | Environment

by David Nield in Science Alert…The researchers warn of a catastrophic loss of crop-growing capacity with up to half the global area for growing wheat and maize potentially lost, putting the “stability of our societies” under threat. These processes are already well underway, with more than 27 million children driven into hunger by extreme weather in 2022 alone.

What a major solar storm could do to our planet

Mar 18, 2024 | Environment

by Kathryn Schulz in The New Yorker…Scientists can’t predict what will happen in space. All they can do is try to identify a threat quickly enough to minimize its impact on everything that it might damage or destroy.

Systemic wisdom for and beyond systems change – A critical systems perspective convening not only indigenous traditions of wisdom

Mar 4, 2024 | Worldviews

by Louis Klein in EUSG.org…Systemic wisdom facilitates the re-entry of trust and love into science. And though this challenges the modern worldviews and the contemporary self-perception of sciences, it allows for translating knowing into understanding and knowledge into wisdom. We may lose the option of heroic systems change, yet we gain the possibility to realise a humanising society embedded in systemic wisdom.

Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change

Mar 4, 2024 | Environment

by Rebecca Solnit…..We are impatient creatures, impatient for the future to arrive and prone to forgetting the past in our urgency to have it all now.

Redefining philanthropy for global collective resilience: Embracing the polycrisis paradigm

Redefining philanthropy for global collective resilience: Embracing the polycrisis paradigm

Feb 29, 2024 | Resilience Funders Network

Connecting people, north and south, and convening conversations to share approaches, practices and learnings is vital to inspire and to harness the real potential value for all of our philanthropic contributions. Read full article on...

Towards multivalent currencies, bioregional monetary stewardship and a distributed global reserve currency

Feb 15, 2024 | Economy

from Dark Matter Labs.org…Ultimately we hope to convene a community who have diverse skills and experiences beyond our own; a distributed team united in designing and building the alternative monetary system that we so desperately require. A first step towards that is to think carefully about what a desirable monetary system might in fact contain.

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