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links that have appeared on sufficience.net

general interest websites

Fast Company: The Sharing Economy

Grist.org - intelligent and irreverent news

Treehugger.com

www.monbiot.com, by George Monbiot

Take Part.com

Our World in Data.org

Shrink That Footprint.com

Sustainable Human.com

Climate One - promoting climate conversation
Vivid Economics - an economy think tank

Project Syndicate covers economics, sustainability and innovation

Architects Climate Action Network ACAN

 

mobility and transport

EcoPassenger.com (for travelers in Europe)

Cycling Embassy of Denmark

Yehuda Moon, cycling comic strip by Smith and Griggs

People for Bikes.org

League of American Bicyclists

Streetsblog.org - latest news on low-speed travel

Jane's Walk - citizen-led neighborhood walks in the spirit of Jane Jacobs

Streetfilms is an organization making short films on slow-speed-travel; their latest film is on prioritizing bike traffic in Utrecht

 

shopping and consumption

Ecolabel Index, Project Label, GoodGuide

Be a Localist.org

Sharable.net - navigate the alternative economy

Sacramento Library of Things

The Story of Stuff.org

home composting and apartment composter

Waste-Free Kitchen cookbook

How to donate food in the US  and in Switzerland

BBC clip on food waste statistics

How humans disrupted a cycle essential to all life - a Vox film explaining the carbon cycle

Circular  - NPR TED Radio Hour on the circular economy, with innovations in rejuvenation and recycling

Better World Shopper supports ethical consumption

The Economist on capitalism and democracy

The Conversation on corporate activism

New York Times on local vs. global
Sustainababble on how to be eco-friendly

 

plastic and waste

Tossed Out video by NETNebraska

BBC podium discussion "How Do We Cure Our Plastic Addiction"?

EU declares war on plastic waste in the Guardian

UNEP hopes for treaty banning plastics

Trash Hero - volunteers cleaning the world

History of Wastefulness BBC radio documentary series

Global Recycler - articles on recycling in the manufacturing industry

 

built environment

Global Alliance for Building and Construction

2000 Watt Society

Walk Out Walk On - communities living in the future

 

natural environment

Waterkeeper Alliance for protecting the world's waterways

www.the ecologist.org

The Permaculture Research Institute

Urban Farm Preschool

swale.org - a floating food forest for New York City

Paris: turning streets into gardens - a BBC short film on residents turning their sidewalks into herb gardens

The Land Institute in Kansas information on agriculture and ecology including: 10,000 Years of Agriculture.

Natural Areas Conservancy of NYC

BBC Tree Database to plant the right tree

Minority hiking groups: Outdoor Afro, Black Girls Hike, Wild in the City

 

media series and podcasts

My Perfect Country  and  My Perfect City BBC radio documentary series with stories about civil society working well

People Fixing the World - a BBC radio documentary series showcasing solutions to local problems

www.theguardian.com//The Story of Cities

Wendover Productions.com

Neighbourhood, a BBC documentary series on neighborhoods around the world
Global Optimism - an optimistic discussion platform, check out their podcast Outrage and Optimism

Scene on Radio podcast on democracy

 

miscellaneous

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Interview with Jaron Lanier on Vox.com

The Right to Speak on the NPR TED Radio Hour: interviews with Jeff Howard and Elif Shafak

How Loving Extremists will Defeat Hate: Russell Brand interviews Deeyah Khan on listening

The Room of Requirement - NPR This American Life from December 28, 2018, on special libraries
Hip Hop Forestry - music by environment professor and rap artist Dr. Thomas Easley, aka RaShad Eas
ecosia is a non-profit search-engine that donates to forestry projects, read a BBC article about it.

 

climate change

fridays for future

citizens climate lobby

our children's trust

The Guardian article on climate court cases

Grist article on Juliana vs United States

next gen rising

sunrise movement

earth guardians

communitopia - don't just sit there

plant for the planet

influence watch

grey bears

interview with Jeremy Lent on resource use and ecological transition on HousePlanningHelp.com

NewClimate Institute - Berlin-based think tank for climate and sustainability policy

Granthan Institute - climate research at the London School of Economics

Global Optimism - an optimistic discussion platform, check out their podcast Outrage and Optimism

Zero Hour Georiga

 

go New Jersey!!
NJ becomes the first state to require climate change in K-12 cirriculum

NJ makes environmental history with the adoption of an environmental justice law

 

books and films

The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins

This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein

Demain (Tomorrow) - the film

Think Like a Commoner, by David Bollier

The Logic of Sufficiency , by Thomas Princen

Green Metropolis  by David Owen

Our Only World  by Wendell Berry

Who Owns the Future  by Jaron Lanier

I'm Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi

Our Towns by Deborah and James Fallows

Rambunctious Garden - Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris

The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

In Search of the Canary Tree by Lauren E. Oakes

The Overstory by Richard Powers

The Growth Delusion by David Pilling

Making Motherhood Work, by Caitlyn Collins

All We Can Save - Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, essays by women, A. E. Johnson and K. K. Wilkinson Ed.

 

pandemic replanning and workspace

2 BBC articles:

- Covid recovery plan 'must tackle climate change'

- Could the coronavirus crisis finally finish off coal?

Ai Weiwei in The Atlantic:Time Has Lost All Meaning

Brian Lehrer discussed reopening NY schools on his WNYC podcast.

more from the New York Times:

- America Needs an Emergency Meeting of the Baby-Sitters Club 

- Coronavirus Threatens the Luster of Superstar Cities
TED Radio Hour  npr podcast on healthy air-flow in buildings
David Graeber on the BBC Rethink podcast
Making Motherhood Work, by Caitlyn Collins

a portable Internet on BCC's People Fixing the World

 

captialism and consumption

Mariana Mazzucato researches economic policy at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London.

Her conversations and interviews are worth listening to.

 

  • definitions
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“If you’re not affected by climate change today, that itself is a privilege.”

     Andrea Manning  quoted by Leah Penniman, ”Black Gold” in All We Can Save

 

“…spiritual leaders are calling us to solidarity, calling to responsibility those of you who can,  because those who can are responsible for those who cannot.”

     Christiana Figueres, on the responsibility to mitigate climate change


the conversation

We are on the path towards reducing our energy and resource use. We have found different answers to our many questions. Despite the current difficulties, if we pool our knowledge, we become a community  that embraces the challenges of changing our world together. 

 

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ecosia is a non-profit search-engine that donates to forestry projects, read a BBC article about it.

 

this just in
a Greentech Media podcast on reducing carbon in construction and industry

99% Invisible wants you to Take a Walk

Hothouse Solutions - 10 minutes for change

latest from CityLab: "Whatever Climate Change Does to the World, Cities will be hit Hardest"

the NAACP has an Environmental and Climate Justice Program

 

more on pandemic changes
New Yorkers find idyllic spots and wild flowers

 

more on urban nature

in April the Nature Conservancy published a study on tree cover and temperature

urban foraging in Edible Cities

ClimateOne podcasts:

 - on getting outside and

 - with Jan Gehl and future cities

A wildlife corridor for animals in Utah

Pollinators on Sustainability Defined

photos of NYC gardens by Lisa Fried

 

great websites

Architects Climate Action Network

Project Drawdown - climate solutions

 

great books

Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City by Richard Sennet



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