EV & N 217 – CCTV | Got a Carbon Problem? Fix it ! Part 2 – Global Crisis & Localized Responses

http://ecoethics.net/2014-ENVRE120/20160605-EV&N-217-Link.html

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Sunlight + water + soil => produce => the plants we need to stay alive. To survive in the future we need to learn to grow — not destroy — topsoil.   If topsoil is properly generated through practices of permaculture, our agricultural systems can produce ever more abundant and nutritious food while at the same time they can serve as a major means of carbon-capture-and-storage, fixing carbon and nitrogen in the in ever more enriched topsoils.

If, by contrast, global agriculture continues its current abusive practices that release large volumes of carbon contained in natural soils, and if it commits itself to petro-intensive technologies that depend upon fossil fuels for fertilizers, pesticides and pumped groundwater we are going to be in dire trouble as the impacts of climate change are felt around the world.  Modern civilization will collapse as models of industrialized agriculture can no longer deliver its expected abundance on a sustainable basis. 

In effect, on its current trajectory, agriculture is in danger of becoming a net energy sink while at the same time it is evolving into a massive new source of the greenhouse gases (GHGs)  CO2, methane and nitrous oxide as a consequence of ever expanding use of petro-intensive technologies. This must change if humankind expects to thrive much longer.  This is, perhaps, the modern world’s biggest challenge as part of “the great transition” that will be required if we are to survive.

See:

• Got a Carbon Problem? Fix it ! Part 1 – Some Prophetic & Enduring Testimony
  and
• Got a Carbon Problem? Fix it ! Part 3 – Growing Soil to Save the Human Prospect

   Food-Matters

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition: Charles Eisenstein

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme—but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.

This book is about how the money system will have to change—and is already changing—to embody this transition. A broadly integrated synthesis of theory, policy, and practice, Sacred Economics explores avant-garde concepts of the New Economics, including negative-interest currencies, local currencies, resource-based economics, gift economies, and the restoration of the commons. Author Charles Eisenstein also considers the personal dimensions of this transition, speaking to those concerned with “right livelihood” and how to live according to their ideals in a world seemingly ruled by money. Tapping into a rich lineage of conventional and unconventional economic thought, Sacred Economics presents a vision that is original yet commonsense, radical yet gentle, and increasingly relevant as the crises of our civilization deepen.

Sacred Economics official website: http://sacred-economics.com/

About the Imprint:
EVOLVER EDITIONS promotes a new counterculture that recognizes humanity’s visionary potential and takes tangible, pragmatic steps to realize it. EVOLVER EDITIONS explores the dynamics of personal, collective, and global change from a wide range of perspectives. EVOLVER EDITIONS is an imprint of North Atlantic Books and is produced in collaboration with Evolver, LLC.

Food-Matters
Global Climate Change
Environment Ethics
Environment Justice

We Need Each Other: Building Gift Community: Bill Kauth, Zoe Alowan

Our book is part of an emerging “gift culture” worldview. It is a manual for designing personal community based on the gifts that each person brings. Focusing on non-residential, place based and committed community, we present tools to support and fortify the longing of the human heart for intimate, conscious connection.

Food-Matters
Global Climate Change
Environment Ethics
Environment Justice

Longing to Belong: Looking for Your Tribe? (part 1)

peakmoment

Published on Jun 4, 2016

“If you look at our DNA, we’re meant to be connected…. You can take people out of the tribe, but you can’t take the tribe out of the people.” Bill Kauth and Zoe Alowan share a model for community where people live in their own homes located “roughly within biking distance.” The co-authors of We Need Each Other: Building Gift Community explain that their own tribe, who have met weekly for three years, has committed to staying in place and to being there fully for one another. Countering the pervasive isolation in our culture, their model creates a safe space for men and women to build non-sexual intimacy, honesty, openness and mutual support in a social safety net. In part 2, they explain the structures, activities and values for successful tribe-making. Episode 308. [timefortribe.com]

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See:

• http://timefortribe.com/

and

• We Need Each Other: Building Gift Community: Bill Kauth, Zoe Alowan

 

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