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Is 5G Worth the Risks?
Is 5G Worth the Risks?
This article was originally published on the Economics of Happiness Blog.
Iishana Artra, PhD
Socialists Win in Spain With Green New Deal
Socialists Win in Spain With Green New Deal
Spaniards threw their weight behind a Green New Deal programme by re-electing the pro-climate Spanish Socialist party (PSOE).
Natalie Sauer
21 Examples of NVC Consciousness
21 Examples of NVC Consciousness
Our way of being -- the intentions, attitudes, and quality of the energy that we bring to an interaction -- is more important than the particular words we choose to speak. The heart of Nonviolent Communication is not about speaking using a particular recipe. Rather it is...
Bob Wentworth
Five Early Lessons From Extinction Rebellion
Five Early Lessons From Extinction Rebellion
How the new movement for ecological justice is reimagining the world by reimagining the art of protest, protection and healing.
Chris Taylor
Anatomy of a Trump Supporter
Anatomy of a Trump Supporter
A farmer in the Midwest, a Donald Trump supporter in 2016, complained last week that his farm was in danger of going bankrupt owing to the combined effects of climate change and the tariff-wars, initiated by Trump, that have caused corn and soybean prices to collapse while...
Peter Gabel
Dare to Declare Capitalism Dead – Before It Takes Us All Down With It
Dare to Declare Capitalism Dead – Before It Takes Us All Down With It
The economic system is incompatible with the survival of life on Earth. It is time to design a new one.
George Monbiot
The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline
The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline
Three attributes can make the difference between success and failure for nonviolent movements around the world: unity, planning, and nonviolent discipline.
Hardy Merriman
So Many Animals Are Going Extinct That It Could Take Earth 10 Million Years to Recover
So Many Animals Are Going Extinct That It Could Take Earth 10 Million Years to Recover
It took the Earth 10 million years to recover from the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs.
Aylin Woodward
The World's Happiest People Already Have a Green New Deal, and They Love It
The World's Happiest People Already Have a Green New Deal, and They Love It
Green New Deal advocates in the United States should look to the Nordic countries for inspiration on how to overcome the 1 percent and address climate change.
George Lakey
How to Win: Lessons From the Zad
How to Win: Lessons From the Zad
Successful social movements combine resistance to injustice with the affirmation of alternatives.
Greg Frey
We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It's Too Late
We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It's Too Late
In the face of climate breakdown and ecological overshoot, alluring promises of green growth are no more than magical thinking. We need to restructure the fundamentals of our global cultural/economic system to cultivate an ecological civilization: one that prioritizes the...
Jeremy Lent
Films for Action's $5/Mo Supporters Can Watch These Paradigm Shifting Films for Free
Films For Action's $5/Mo Supporters Can Watch These Paradigm Shifting Films for Free
Thanks to the filmmakers we've partnered with, our $5/mo+ supporters can instantly watch the 12 pay-per-view films below for free, and we plan to add more to this support tier over time. Check out the video below to watch thetrailers for 5 of the 12 filmsback-to-back.
Films For Action
Nurses Are Leading Strike Efforts — Where Are the Physicians?
Nurses Are Leading Strike Efforts — Where Are the Physicians?
Nurses in New York City are pushing back against hospital systems that put profits over patients and threaten their efforts to strike for safer staffing ratios. While nurses are fighting, physicians, so far, have remained on the sidelines of this struggle.
Mike Pappas
Rethinking the Normalization of Fascism in the Post-Truth Era
Rethinking the Normalization of Fascism in the Post-Truth Era
"We do not live in a post-truth world and never have. On the contrary, we live in a pre-truth world where the truth has yet to arrive."
Henry A. Giroux
The Climate Solution Right Under Our Feet
The Climate Solution Right Under Our Feet
The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient.
Michaela Haas
Only Nature Can Save Us Now
Only Nature Can Save Us Now
Faced with climate change and mass extinction there is only one thing to do. Stop trying to save the world.
Chris Taylor
What Will You Say to Your Grandchildren?
What Will You Say to Your Grandchildren?
Facing oncoming climate disaster, some argue for Deep Adaptation. What we really need is Deep Transformation.
Jeremy Lent
Why You Shouldn't Listen to Trump and the Super Rich When It Comes to Beauty
Why You Shouldn't Listen to Trump and the Super Rich When It Comes to Beauty
We see and judge women based on the perspective of super rich white men who also tend to own the beauty competitions and the cosmetic companies.
Tamara Pearson
AOC, Sanders, and Warren Are the Real Centrists Because They Speak for Most Americans
AOC, Sanders, and Warren Are the Real Centrists Because They Speak for Most Americans
DO YOU KNOWwhat really annoys me about the medias coverage of U.S. politics, and especially the Democratic Party?
Mehdi Hasan
Right-Wing Psychiatry, Love-Me Liberals and the Anti-Authoritarian Left
Right-Wing Psychiatry, Love-Me Liberals and the Anti-Authoritarian Left
In every American community you have varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects, ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them...
Bruce E. Levine
Basic Income - Ensuring a Future for Humanity's Children
Basic Income - Ensuring a Future for Humanity's Children
There are clever people who make algorithms for the financial services sector. Remember those crumbs that used to fall from the rich mans table? Theyre all accounted for now. Every last one, down to the tiniest minuscule crumb that you cant even see. They get collected by the...
Eamonn Kelly
Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits
Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits
We have many problems poverty, unemployment, environmental destruction, climate change, financial instability, etc. but only one solution for everything, namely economic growth. We believe that growth is the costless, win-win solution to all problems, or at least the...
Herman Daly
How Bad Is Global Inequality, Really?
How Bad Is Global Inequality, Really?
Most everyone whos interested in global inequality has come across the famous elephant graph, originally developed by Branko Milanovic and Christoph Lakner using World Bank data (see below). The graph charts the change in income that the worlds population have experienced...
Jason Hickel
A Psychologist Explains How People Become Anti-Authoritarians
A Psychologist Explains How People Become Anti-Authoritarians
Lyndon Johnson famously proclaimed his requirements for an appointee: I want him to kiss my ass in Macys window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. Johnson and his ass-kissers were authoritarians.
Bruce E. Levine
Criticizing Israel isn’t Anti-Semitic, Here’s What Is
Criticizing Israel isn’t Anti-Semitic, Here’s What Is
Weeks ago, when the first accusations of anti-semitism were being leveled against Representative Ilhan Omar, I was deeply agitated.
Sarah Gertler
Saving Japan's seed heritage from “free trade”
Saving Japan's seed heritage from “free trade”
I recently had the opportunity to interview Masahiko Yamada, formerly Japans Minister of Agriculture and now one of the countrys foremost food sovereignty activists. We met at an internationalEconomics of Happiness Conferencein Prato, Italy, where Yamada delivered a keynote...
Anja Lyngbaek
The White Saviour: Imperialism's ‘Last Bitter Struggle for Life’
The White Saviour: Imperialism's ‘Last Bitter Struggle for Life’
I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world Sukarno, the first President of Indonesia
Rowen Ball
The Green New Deal Can Work – Here's How
The Green New Deal Can Work – Here's How
18 concrete ways to make the urgently needed climate mobilization a reality
Jeremy Brecher
The Scourge of Self-Flagellating Politics
The Scourge of Self-Flagellating Politics
When politics becomes about tallying sins, it ceases to accomplish meaningful change
Angela Nagle
The Market Theocracy
The Market Theocracy
The Handmaids Tale is less a dystopian nightmare about Trumps America than a comforting fiction we tell ourselves.
Angela Nagle
Tosepan: Resistance and Renewal in Mexico
Tosepan: Resistance and Renewal in Mexico
Since the mid-1980s, Mexico has been a poster child for globalization. Through free trade treaties and structural adjustment policies imposed by international financial institutions, the country has been liberalized opened up to unfettered corporate investment and imports to...
Alex Jensen
Why the “Anthropocene” is not “Climate Change”
Why the “Anthropocene” is not “Climate Change”
Anthropocene is a widely proposed name for the geological epoch that covers human impact on our planet. But it is not synonymous with climate change, nor can it covered by environmental problems. Bigger and more shocking, the Anthropocene encapsulates the evidence that human...
Julia Adeney Thomas
Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy
Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy
"So what can I do, as an individual?"
Miki Kashtan
Build a Border Wall? Here's What Border Communities Say They Want Instead
Build a Border Wall? Here's What Border Communities Say They Want Instead
For many of us who actually live along the U.S.-Mexico border, the Mesquite Manifesto addresses economic and climate problems by building up industry around the native tree.
Gary Paul Nabhan
How to Fight Fascism From a Position of Strength
How to Fight Fascism From a Position of Strength
The growth of white supremacy and fascism has been noticeable in a number of countries lately, prompting the question: What can we learn from each other? Each country might find best practices elsewhere that could be applied at home, in addition to learning from its own past...
George Lakey
It's Climate Change That's Scary - Not Transforming the Economy
It's Climate Change That's Scary - Not Transforming the Economy
Its very clear that conservatives have one plan for dealing with the popularity of the Green New Deal: scaring the hell out of people.
Bill McKibben
Fact Sheet: Global Species Decline
Fact Sheet: Global Species Decline
The world is facing a mass extinction of species. All species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, arthropods (insects and arachnids), fish, crustaceans, corals and other cnidarians, and plants have declined, in many cases, severely. Human civilization has had a negative...
Earth Day Network
Five Signs a Man Is Connected to His Heart
Five Signs a Man Is Connected to His Heart
Many men think our power is in our brains or our balls.
Bryan Reeves
What Covington Catholic Students Should Know About the Church's History With Indigenous People
What Covington Catholic Students Should Know About the Church's History With Indigenous People
Leaders at Covington diocese and Catholics in general are likely unfamiliar with the churchs brutal history in connection with Native peoples; numerous news reports on the incident have failed to acknowledge it.
Mary Annette Pember
Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News
Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News
I grew up believing that following the news makes you a better citizen. Eight years after having quit, that idea now seems ridiculousthat consuming a particularly unimaginative information product on a daily basis somehow makes you thoughtful and informed in a way that...
David Cain
No Impact Man's Guide to Activism
No Impact Man's Guide to Activism
So many of us have good ideas for helping the world. But we tuck away our ideas. I did. Id tell myself that if the idea were any good someone else would have already done it. That Im not capable of making a difference. Id sit on my ideas, get on with my life, and then feel...
Colin Beavan
5 Shareable Excerpts From Douglas Rushkoff's New Book 'Team Human'
5 Shareable Excerpts From Douglas Rushkoff's New Book 'Team Human'
Douglas Rushkoff's just released book "Team Human" is a passionately argued manifesto "for human dignity and prosperity in a digital age."Released this week, the manifesto's 100 points outline the many reasons and ways to"reassert the human agenda."In true Shareable style...
Courtney Pankrat
“Basic Training” for Spiritual Warriors
“Basic Training” for Spiritual Warriors
Joanna Macy talks about three tasks needed to bring in a world of spiritual progress: create new institutions, change the culture, and stop the worst of the damage. At Metta we feel that the worst of the damage has been to the human image who are we and what can we become...
Prof. Michael Nagler
What the Left Gets Wrong About Jordan Peterson
What the Left Gets Wrong About Jordan Peterson
One might think that by now progressives would figure out that vilifying Peterson almost always redounds to his advantage. One would be wrong
J Oliver Conroy
The Wall Is Not Beautiful
The Wall Is Not Beautiful
Donald Trump insists that the border wall he wants built will be nothing less than beautiful. He has assured us that the latest version, a series of steel slats topped by triangular spikes, will fulfill the non plus ultra of architectural design: it will be totally effective...
Sandra Lubarsky
My Message to Davos Elites: Act as If Our House Is on Fire. Because It Is.
My Message to Davos Elites: Act as If Our House Is on Fire. Because It Is.
"Either we choose to go on as a civilization or we don't. That is as black or white as it gets. There are no grey areas when it comes to survival."
Greta Thunberg
Confronting the Culture of Death
Confronting the Culture of Death
The issue before us is death. Not only our individual death, which is more imminent for some of us this morning than others, but our collective death.
Chris Hedges
Linda Sarsour, the Women's March, and Anti-Semitism
Linda Sarsour, the Women's March, and Anti-Semitism
In recent days there have been some calls from some people in the Jewish community to boycott the planned Womens March on January 19. This call has been explained on the ground that some of the March leaders have been unwilling to specifically denounce Minister Farrakhan of...
Rabbi Arthur Waskow
King's Vision Is Still Defiant
King's Vision Is Still Defiant
He stands now, as he did then, as a living force for justice, in uncompromising opposition to poverty, racism and war
Robert C. Koehler
The Point Is to Change It
The Point Is to Change It
All suffering begins and ends in our brains.
Josh Liveright
What if a City Were Designed by Trees?
What if a City Were Designed by Trees?
Seeing trees as sacred is not an anomaly, its the fact that our culture has somehow lost this fellowship thats an anomaly. If trees are a keystone of our wellness, why not learn to listen to their voice? If we did, how might the things we hear transform the landscape of our...
Patrick Lydon
Our Dangerous Impulse to Demonize the Other Side
Our Dangerous Impulse to Demonize the Other Side
Self-righteous, public shaming of kids is almost certain to backfire.
Ruth Conniff
The Problem Isn't Robots Taking Our Jobs. It's Oligarchs Taking Our Power
The Problem Isn't Robots Taking Our Jobs. It's Oligarchs Taking Our Power
Training for the jobs of the future keeps workers trapped as long as workers can't shape how technology is used and who profits from it
Adam Simpson
Lessons in Resistance From MLK, the 'Conservative Militant'
Lessons in Resistance From MLK, the 'Conservative Militant'
Just days after President Donald Trumps inauguration, activists from Greenpeace climbed up a large construction crane near the White House and unfurled a large banner with the single word: Resist.
Christopher Beem
MLK Strongly Supported Unions. Here's Why.
MLK Strongly Supported Unions. Here's Why.
If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, hed probably tell people to join unions.
Peter Cole
10 Things We All Lose If Bernie Chooses Not to Run in 2020
10 Things We All Lose If Bernie Chooses Not to Run in 2020
What policy issues would be off the table? What demands for transformation would be watered down?
RoseAnn DeMoro
No Future: From Punk to Zapatismo and Connected Multitudes
No Future: From Punk to Zapatismo and Connected Multitudes
Amador Fernndez-Savater talks with Guiomar Rovira, author of Networked Activism and Connected Multitudes, about punk, Zapatismo, technology, communication, and activist appropriation of the internet.
Guiomar Rovira and Amador Fernández Savater
From Personal to Global Trauma: the Through-Line
From Personal to Global Trauma: the Through-Line
When Kim was a tiny person, maybe three years old, just when our human sense of actually existing-as-a-separate-being-with-a-self starts to emerge, Kim lived in a family where people were frightened, and angry, and sometimes kind, and sometimes scornful. When Kim would start...
Sarah Peyton
Why Americans Need to Act Like the Majority We Already Are
Why Americans Need to Act Like the Majority We Already Are
This article was first published in Bye-Bye 45: A Guide to Bringing Him Down. Read more about the action guidehere.
Onnesha Roychoudhuri
Unauthorized Washington Post Offers a Fantasy Grounded in Movement Wisdom
Unauthorized Washington Post Offers a Fantasy Grounded in Movement Wisdom
On Wednesday morning, as commuters in Washington D.C. made their way to work, the front page ofwhat appeared to be theWashington Posthad people stopping in their tracks. Theheadlineread: UNPRESIDENTED: Trump hastily departs White House, ending crisis.
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert