Helpful Links

  • Antiwar Climate Network – A Facebook page for exploring and discussing the connections between climate change and warfare. https://www.facebook.com/groups/329992597462422/
  • Biocentric with Max Wilbert – Excellent truth-telling from a man who puts Earth Life first. “This newsletter is about resisting the destruction, and focuses on topics such as greenwashing, degrowth, strategy, ecological collapse, grassroots organizing, people’s movements, deep ecology, and nature connection.” https://maxwilbert.substack.com/
  • Climate Reanalyzer – excellent graphics in a a platform for visualizing climate and weather forecast models. Site content is organized into three general categories: Weather Forecasts, Climate Charts, and Research Tools. https://climatereanalyzer.org/
  • Communities that Protect and Resist – Resources and networking for the kinds of human communities that life on Earth really needs. “We work to build a coalition of and for Communities (virtual and land-based) working together to actively and directly resist the forces destroying the planet.” https://ctpr.home.blog/
  • Deep Green Resistance – Perhaps the most committed, daring, and devoted defenders of Life on Earth, as an organization, that I have heard of so far. Their vision: “A world where biodiversity is rising, dead zones are shrinking, and land-based cultures grounded in human rights and a sustainable relationship with the planet arise and flourish. In short: a world without industrial civilization.” https://deepgreenresistance.org/
  • DeSmog – “DeSmog was founded in January 2006 to clear the PR pollution that is clouding the science and solutions to climate change. Our team quickly became the world’s number one source for accurate, fact-based information regarding global warming misinformation campaigns.” https://www.desmog.com/
  • Do the Math – A very illuminating blog by one of my favorite scientists, astrophysicist, Tom Murphy. Tom is the author of the superb, open access textbook, Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet, a user-friendly, sobering, detailed explanation of what “finite planet” actually means. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/about-this-blog/
  • Eco Vista – “Eco Vista represents a dream of a community that is regenerative rather than extractive, collaborative rather than competitive, and active in co-creating the conditions we can thrive in together. We have several ongoing projects in agroecology, circular economy, art, community building, and more.” https://ecovistacommunity.wordpress.com/
  • Freecycle.org – A fantastic online barter website, described in my article on this blog, “The End of Money.” https://www.freecycle.org/
  • From Garden Warriors to Good Seeds: Indigenizing the Local Food Movement – An excellent blog on the growing and spreading movement of more sustainable hoticulture and permaculture in Indigenous communities all over the occupied lands called the “United States of America.” This blog has not been updated since 2020, but it contains many good links to ongoing projects and sites. https://gardenwarriorsgoodseeds.com/
  • Honor the Earth – Educational, informational Indigenous Earth activist organization founded by long-time activist, Winona LaDuke (White Earth Anishinabe). https://www.honorearth.org/
  • Insteading – Lots of good, practical how-to articles on living with the wonderful gifts of Earth. https://insteading.com/
  • Just Collapse – A great combination of compassion, truth-telling, and solid proposals for much-needed Earth protection and social justice activism. “Just Collapse is an activist platform dedicated to socio-ecological justice in unfolding, irreversible global collapse. Just Collapse advocates for a Just Collapse and Planned Collapse to avert the worst outcomes that will follow an otherwise unplanned, reactive collapse.” https://justcollapse.org/
  • Local Futures – The direction we need to go in at this point in the crisis. Local is where we can build the alternative, eco-centric societies that Earth can handle. “We are living through a crisis of disconnection – from nature, community, and the deeper meaning that makes life whole. Local Futures offers a path home. By restoring local economies and cultures, we regenerate the Earth and ourselves.” https://www.localfutures.org/
  • Low-Tech Magazine – Innovation moving in the right direction–toward Earth sustainability and regeneration. What we need to learn and re-learn for post-collapse survival and new lifeways. “Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices.” https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about
  • Missoula Time Bank – A wonderful example of alternative, local community-based, non-monetary economics. “The Missoula Time Bank is a service exchange which uses time rather than money. Members provide services for other members. Members earn time hours, and spend them on the services they need… All skills are valued equally!” The Time Bank is described in detail in the article on this blog titled, “The End of Money”. https://www.missoulatimebank.org/
  • Natural Homes – A wonderful collection of examples of Earth-friendly, sustainable building by Earth-friendly people from all over the world. http://naturalhomes.org/about.htm
  • No Tech Magazine – A spin-off from Low-Tech magazine. Questioning all technologies, living within Earth’s limits and capacities, and regaining appropriate technologies from the past. https://www.notechmagazine.com/
  • Permies – Permaculture ideas, examples and links, mostly from people in western Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Includes a multitude of discussion forums on permaculture-related topics. https://permies.com/
  • Post-Doom resources – One of the best collections on the internet of links to diverse types of informational resources about Earth’s predicament and helpful ways to deal with it. https://postdoom.com/resources/
  • Problems, Predicaments, and Technology – “This blog covers many different aspects of ecological overshoot focusing on climate change, pollution loading, and energy and resource decline. Specific areas of interest also include anthropocentrism, hubris, cognitive dissonance, and optimism bias.” Erik Michaels has put together a treasure trove of accurate information on Earth overshoot, interesting analysis, and many excellent links. https://problemspredicamentsandtechnology.blogspot.com/
  • RadFemBiophilia’s Newsletter – Elisabeth Robson is a woman who puts the collective well-being of interconnected life on Earth above all human social concerns and realizes there can be no over-all well-being for human societies if we live in ways that destroy our natural source of life. Her essays are exhaustively researched, extremely well-written, provocative and inspiring. https://radfembiophilia.substack.com/
  • Real Climate: climate science from climate scientists – Possibly the best website I’ve found so far for connecting people to any information you need about climate science. Produced by climate scientists with the ability to communicate to non-scientists and provide clear, reality-based explanations. Contains many conversations between scientists and non-scientists, going back to 2007 and up to the present date on relevant topics, and a multitude of useful links. https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/start-here/comment-page-6/#comments
  • Rev. Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir – Truly an inspiration. As mentioned in my essay on this blog, “The End of Money,” this is a unique, hard to describe radical community of performing artists who “work for the Earth.” https://revbilly.com/
  • Shareable – “Shareable collaborates with organizers and allies to imagine, resource, network, and scale cooperative projects. We envision a just, connected, and joyful world where sharing is daily practice and communities flourish.” Good ideas for alternative local economics, but not eco-centric (is “power to the people” an anthropocentric perspective?). https://www.shareable.net/
  • standstoreeson – William Rees’s Substack blog. Rees was one of the first scientists to understand and teach about Earth overshoot, back in the 1980s. He was the co-founder, with Mathis Wackernagel, of the Global Footprint Network. An amazing mind! https://reeswilliame.substack.com/
  • Statement by Indigenous spiritual elders of North and South America – This statement explains very eloquently the crisis that we of the Earth now find ourselves in, and provides their sense for a direction out of the crisis. https://www.indigenousaction.org/wp-content/uploads/COUNCIL_FUKUSHIMA_STATEMENT_OCT_2013.pdf
  • The Freegans – A good example of alternative economics activism. “We as Freegans employ alternative strategies for living that are based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Thus, we avoid buying anything to the greatest degree possible, emphasize sharing resources, and find happiness outside the pursuit of material things. There are many strategies for living with limited participation in the traditional economy..” https://freegan.info/
  • Yes! Magazine – This magazine consistently provides us with many positive examples of the good things that people are doing for Earth sustainability and “environmental justice.” https://www.yesmagazine.org/