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Bookmark Why White Supremacists Are Hooked on Green Living | The New Republic
On Saturdays, Sarah Dye and her husband, Douglas Mackey, sell seasonal vegetables and eggs at a farmers’ market in Bloomington, Indiana. Sarah stands behind a stall piled high with heirloom tomatoes,…

September 26 2019, 5:36pm | Comments
Bookmark We Need Courage, Not Hope, to Face Climate Change - The On…
As a climate scientist, I am often asked to talk about hope. Particularly in the current political climate, audiences want to be told that everything will be all right in the…

September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments
Bookmark What is Called Thinking in the Anthropocene? — The Revealer
This is a piece about failures. My failures, mostly, as a thinker and a scholar, but also the failure of my field and the failure of all of us to think…

August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments
Bookmark The Arrogance of the Anthropocene - The Atlantic
On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch. Humans are now living in a new geological epoch of our own making: the Anthropocene. Or so we’re told.

August 17 2019, 8:05am | Comments
Bookmark Extinction Rebellion: Not the Struggle we Need, Pt. 1
The first of a three-part critique of Extinction Rebellion, focussing on their attitudes towards the police, legal system and prison. Out of the Woods are utterly convinced of the need for…

July 20 2019, 11:10am | Comments
Bookmark Coral found to prefer eating microplastic to natural food
Astrangia. Credit: Stephen Cairns et al. An illustrated key to the genera and subgenera of the Recent azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa), with an attached glossary, ZooKeys (2012). DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.227.3612. Creative Commons…

July 2 2019, 2:44pm | Comments
Bookmark Cloud Loss Could Add 8 Degrees to Global Warming | Quanta Magazine
On a 1987 voyage to the Antarctic, the paleoceanographer James Kennett and his crew dropped anchor in the Weddell Sea, drilled into the seabed, and extracted a vertical cylinder of sediment.

February 27 2019, 7:38pm | Comments
Bookmark ‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant…
What does it mean to be alive right now? Right now. Right this second, right this epoch, as mankind alters the Earth beyond recognition.

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’ - BBC News
Colonisation of the Americas at the end of the 15th Century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate. That's the conclusion of scientists from University College London, UK.

February 4 2019, 6:52pm | Comments
Bookmark Technological and Posthuman Zones – Critical Posthumanism
Modern technology seems always to have been judged according to its utility for human beings. To the extent that technologies have been viewed as tools, instruments, or prostheses for human use,…

November 30 2018, 3:17am | Comments
Bookmark ‘It’s Time to Decolonize Environmentalism’: An Interview with Zina Saro-Wiwa | Frieze
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October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark ‘Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025…
The communications industry could use 20% of all the world’s electricity by 2025, hampering attempts to meet climate change targets and straining grids as demand by power-hungry server farms storing digital…

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark CENHS @ Rice! » New Materialism, Environmental Justice, and Digital Sites of…
Below is a shortened version of Annie Culver’s essay that won Honorable Mention in the 2017 Greene Prize for Environmental Writing. Annie is a PhD student in English at Rice University.

September 4 2018, 9:31am | Comments
Bookmark Searching for Language to Capture How Climate Change Has Altered Our World…
RISING Dispatches from the New American Shore By Elizabeth Rush Illustrated. 299 pp. Milkweed Editions. $26. A drowned world: It’s an ancient fear and a very old story.

August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark How much electricity is consumed by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and…
I recently created a thread that on Twitter regarding the lower-bound estimates for how much electricity the Bitcoin blockchain consumed using publicly available numbers. The first part of this post is…

August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer |…
Veganism has rocketed in the UK over the past couple of years – from an estimated half a million people in 2016 to more than 3.5 million – 5% of our…

August 26 2018, 9:41pm | Comments
Bookmark It's So Hot in Japan, the Fake Food in Restaurant Windows Is…
A friend of mine flew from northern California, to North Carolina on Saturday night and was immediately surprised by what she encountered when she landed. “Why is it so hot here?”…

August 14 2018, 8:41pm | Comments
Bookmark Bunker Mentality: Start Preparing for Ecological & Economic Disaster Free Of Corporate…
Let’s face it: reading stories about the ongoing destruction of planet Earth, the life-sustaining blue marble that all of us – aside from maybe Elon Musk – are permanently trapped on,…

August 14 2018, 8:41pm | Comments
Bookmark Solar Geo-Engineering Can't Save the World’s Crops - The Atlantic
Over the past few years, I’ve heard dozens of scientists talk about solar geo-engineering, the once-outlandish idea that humanity should counteract climate change by releasing special gases into the stratosphere to…

August 9 2018, 1:42am | Comments
Bookmark Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”
The novella-length piece represents the kind of media commitment that the climate crisis has long deserved but almost never received.

August 7 2018, 6:22pm | Comments
Bookmark We Should Never Have Called It Earth | The On Being Project
We should never have called it Earth. Three quarters of the planet’s surface is saltwater, and most of it does not lap at tranquil beaches for our amusement. The ocean is…

July 31 2018, 7:35pm | Comments
Bookmark A groundbreaking study outlines what you can do about climate change. |…
Researchers in Sweden examined the possible steps that people can take to help tackle the climate crisis. Although a lot of resulting news coverage focused on the most effective action (having…

July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments
Facebook Cache list: food ethics books
Good books about food and ethics?

June 14 2018, 4:42am | Comments
Bookmark Colonialism did not just create slavery: it changed geology | Science |…
It brought riches to Britain and many other European nations; played a major role in enslaving more than 10 million Africans; and created the first global markets in cotton, tobacco and…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark Do You Know Where Your Healing Crystals Come From? | The New…
After three record-breaking hurricanes hammered America last year, the influential spiritual healer Heather Askinosie wrote a blog post for the Earth.

May 13 2018, 6:17am | Comments
Bookmark How the chicken nugget became the true symbol of our era |…
This is what happens when you turn the natural world into a profit-making machine. By and Jason W Moore The most telling symbol of the modern era isn’t the automobile or…

May 8 2018, 4:13am | Comments
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April 16 2018, 11:01am | Comments
Bookmark Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? - e-flux Architecture - e-flux
We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone…

April 10 2018, 12:38pm | Comments
Bookmark The swiftness of glaciers: language in a time of climate change |…
Language bends and buckles under pressure of climate change. Take the adjective ‘glacial’. I recently came across an old draft of my PhD dissertation on which my advisor had scrawled the…

April 4 2018, 8:08am | Comments
Bookmark Two degrees no longer seen as global warming guardrail
Limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius will not prevent destructive and deadly climate impacts, as once hoped, dozens of experts concluded in a score of scientific studies released Monday. A…

April 4 2018, 8:08am | Comments
Bookmark Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand…
How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific…

March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments
Bookmark Tourists are swarming Antarctica to see it before it’s gone | The…
“Join our team on this special voyage that equips leaders with resources and actionable solutions to become a part of a global force of change.” This isn’t the description for Doctors…

March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

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