Great quote from Dave Pollard on his blog Our human civilization culture, with its 7.8B hostages, is collapsing, ecologically, economically, and, inevitably, to some extent socially as well. We all sense it. The evidence is everywhere. Sooner or later, as collapse takes hold, we are going to have to start to build local communities from the ground up with the people with whom we find ourselves. Some, perhaps most, of those people are going to […]
As I write this, COP 25 is going on. Children activists interviewed on stage, including Greta Thunberg, are stating simply that they represent the younger generation who want a chance to be able to live on the Earth in future and they see no action that is going to offer them more than a 50% chance of an inhabitable planet. No change since their last COP, only increasing CO2 levels. They, like most people cannot […]
Great report from Montana. Interesting for 146 builders is how the gardening grew and now neighbours take turns to look after the garden and get vegetables in return. They even meet every Sunday for a common work session and meal. A simple system – the more you work the greater the share of the produce. Good too is the concept of having this type of solution, maybe with a local farmer running operations, everywhere.
We need to remember that online communities have not yet evolved the well-oiled functioning of local real clubs. This article from Colorado University bring how two things. 1) 146 clubs cannot take the governance of online communities 2) there is a lot of embedded knowledge of how to run local clubs that 146 can build on! https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2021/01/08/implicit-feudalism-why-online-communities-still-havent-caught-my-mothers-garden-club
Commons thinking can help you see new possibilities around your club. This canvas takes you through various aspects of what could be a thriving 146 club. Go to canvas.avbp.net to download the canvas a and access a range of documents that will help you and your core team through the process.
Speaking at the Youth Climate Summit ahead of COP 26, Greta Thunberg postulates that the speed of change required to avoid the worst of the climate disaster is so high that no technology can help: we just have to change the way we do things. This means finding ways to eat, live and work with what we already have that does not use fossil fuels or degrade the planet. Let this sink in. It means […]
Writing on the UK Green World blog, Extinction Rebellion co-founder Rupert Read explains that XR reached one of its targets and failed the other. It succeeded in creating a movement that brought the climate crisis to public (and government) attention. If did not succeeded in bringing in 3.5% of the population to create a tipping point. That task, he says, is now up to more moderate groups who want to take action into their own […]
The brutal logic of a cumulative problem: After 30 years of failure, global CO2 emissions must now get to 0 within 20 years (for global warming of 1.5°C). pic.twitter.com/u4NACjvJxN — Lasse Kummer (@LasseClimate) August 24, 2021 In 10 years, the global climate debate will be completely different from today. Global leaders will either have to admit that global warming will definitely exceed 1.5°C (or already has) or we’ll be able to celebrate a decade of […]
Michael Dowd gives us his take on where the world is today, and how collapse is inevitable. This can be empowering, as the only thing to do is prepare for it at all levels, including the local. The video is tough and confronting, and Michael suggets taking it in pieces.