by Omega | Mar 18, 2024 | Worldviews
With the war in Ukraine raging, what Williams was calling attention to was the lethal accumulation of risks happening at the same time in Africa, as a result of climate change, political conflict and the surge in food and energy prices. ADAM TOOZE Read full article in...
by Omega | Mar 18, 2024 | Polycrisis
The aim is to treat history as a “natural” science, using statistical methods, computational simulations and other tools adapted from evolutionary theory, physics and complexity science to understand why things happened the way that they did. By turning...
by Omega | Mar 18, 2024 | Environment
Global energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) hit a record high last year, driven partly by increased fossil fuel use in countries where droughts hampered hydropower production, International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday. Reuters Read full article in...
by Omega | Mar 18, 2024 | Economy
If crop insurance payments to Canadian farmers were put on a line graph, from 2018 to 2022 the graph would look like a hockey stick. Statistics Canada data shows that crop insurance gross payments were $890 million in 2018. By 2021 that figure had climbed to $3.8...
by Omega | Mar 18, 2024 | Environment
Australia’s farmers are “doing amazing things” and rising to the climate challenge by adopting a deep level of strategic thinking to almost everything they do, according to a new survey on resilience in agriculture. Jamie Seidel Read full article in Cosmos Magazine by...
by Omega | Mar 18, 2024 | Environment
A new review of literature on global climate change written by an international team of more than 200 researchers leaves no room for doubt: humanity is heading for disaster, unless significant steps are taken to change that course. David Nield Read full article in...
by Omega | Mar 18, 2024 | Environment
Disturbances on the sun may have the potential to devastate our power grid and communication systems. When the next big storm arrives, will we be prepared for it? Kathryn Schulz Read full article in The New Yorker by Kathryn Schulz
by Omega | Mar 4, 2024 | Worldviews
Embracing indigenous wisdom traditions promises to successfully meet the challenges of the Anthropocene in the 21st century. They seem to bring what is needed to overcome the limits of the project managerial activism associated with systems change. However, wisdom is...
by Omega | Mar 4, 2024 | Environment
To be able to see change is to be able to make change. I’m an advocate for slowness, not in the sense of dragging your feet or delaying your reaction but in the sense of scaling your perception to to perceive the events unfolding, because I’m an advocate for making...
by Sam Eberle | 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 WingsWeb.org
