These are a few stories we found this week that may be of interest to institute regulars. If you have a news tip, please send it to lowtechinstitute@gmail.com.
Low Tech News
Growing an Abundance of Food on a Small Lot | Natural Building Blog
The Birth of a Permaculture Food Forest – Before & After Photos | Deep Green Permaculture
[Episode #90] – How Will Decarbonized Power Markets Work? | The Energy Transition Show
Cycling is the happiest form of transport | TreeHugger
Why you shouldn’t choose spray foam insulation over fiberglass | TreeHugger
Monbiot: We have to phase cars out within ten years | TreeHugger
Can indigenous knowledge help us manage wildfires? | Ensia
The Dawn of the Age of Plastics
Green Anti-Capitalist Front Manifesto & Open Letter to Extinction Rebellion | Earth First! Newswire
Environmental News
Protesters (Allegedly) Cost Logging Company More Than $100,000 | Earth First! Newswire
Coastal GasLink Ordered To Cease Work on Unist’ot’en Trapline Due to Non-Compliance With Permits | Earth First! Newswire
Bayou Bridge Pipeline Construction Delayed Indefinitely: Energy Transfer Lied to Shareholders, According to Louisiana Residents | Earth First! Newswire
Andrew Wheeler, Who Continued Environmental Rollbacks, Is Confirmed to Lead E.P.A. – The New York Times
The 2020 Race Has Its First Climate Candidate – Mother Jones
What Do You Want to Know About the Green New Deal? – Mother Jones
Local Communities Taking on Big Oil – Resilience
CO2 Emissions in Developed Economies Fall Due to Decreasing Fossil Fuel and Energy Use – Resilience
Our planet just set a scary new carbon dioxide record | Grist
Republican Representative Paul Gosar suggests that photosynthesis discredits climate change | Grist
Research News
- Factcheck: What Greenland ice cores say about past and present climate change
- Analysis: UK’s CO2 emissions fell for record sixth consecutive year in 2018
- Ocean warming has caused ‘sustainable’ fish stocks to drop by 4% since 1930s
- Guest post: China’s CO2 emissions grew slower than expected in 2018
- Stronger monsoon drove ancient Indus civilization into the hills | EARTH Magazine
- Environmentalists Didn’t Expect This Would Happen When They Busted Up Dams – Mother Jones
- Coal ash contamination is widespread, new report finds | Grist
- Earthworm research spurs farmers to act
- The World Is Losing Fish to Eat as Oceans Warm, Study Finds – The New York Times
- New Warnings on Plastic’s Health Risks as Fracking Industry Promotes New ‘Plastics Belt’ Build-Out | DeSmogBlog
Op-Ed¹
- An Illustrated History of What Big Oil Knew About Climate Change—Before the Moon Landing | DeSmogBlog
- Calling out the Origins of Climate Denial and the ‘Climate Change Countermovement’ | DeSmogBlog
- Cassandra’s Legacy: What Will Climate Deniers say When the Climate Disaster Arrives?
- Cassandra’s Legacy: What can we Learn From the Middle Ages About Collapse? The Great Challenge of the Seneca Bottleneck
- Designing Climate Solutions – a big-picture view that doesn’t skimp on details – An Outside Chance
- The Worst Reason to Oppose the Green New Deal – CIVIL NOTION
- To fear or not to fear? A conversation between David Wallace-Wells and Eric Holthaus | Grist
- Humans cause climate change. Do we just need fewer humans? | Grist
- Stop Freaking Out About the Future of Climate Change and Start Worrying About the Present – Mother Jones
- The Great Change: Cheerleaders for Doom
- Resource Insights: The unfinished American project: Democratizing work
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