Evolutionary psychology demonstrates an innate preference for social learning and 'niche construction' that can help us understand the drive towards direct action and citizen assemblies.
… food and resource scarcity through agriculture, industry and trade, climate and …
Embracing a ‘simpler way’ is necessary for a transition to a just, sustainable, and flourishing world.
… more austere material futures? Affluent culture In order to thrive in these more … a deep re-evaluation of affluent material culture is required. High-consumption … to reimagine the good life beyond consumer culture and explore ways to live well on less …
Climate crisis impacts such as sea-level rise, coastal erosion and flooding pose a serious threat to archaeology and heritage, according to new research.
Severe threat to historic British landscapes Brendan Montague | 27th September 2019 News Nature Landscapes Climate Crisis Science & Systems 5553553_70dd6227_1024x1024.jpg Climate crisis impacts such …
New research offers crucial historical context on how ancient indigenous South American populations dealt with climate change.
The Middle Holocene and climate change Staff Reporter | 10th May 2019 News South Amercia Population UCL Science & Systems 34834411344_0c908776ca_b.jpg New research offers crucial historical context …
Trees for Life is to establish the world’s first rewilding centre near Loch Ness in the Highlands.
… stunning wild landscapes, discover Gaelic culture, and learn about the region’s unique … high-quality environment. "Nature and culture are closely linked in the Highlands …
Old and young must unite to form Generation S - a force to combat corporate gigantism and to shape cultural and social revolutions.
… to the particularities of place and culture. Gen S will become technological … meaningful employment at local level. Sumbioculture Globalised agribusiness is a version … task of Gen S will be to rebuild regional agriculture in light of the Symbiocene principles. …
The Anthropocene is generating despair and desolation. The Symbiocene represents its opposite.
… symbiosis in our industrial gigantism and monocultures, but it is now time for all humanity … development where almost every element of culture, agriculture, economy, habitat and technology will …
Intensive agriculture's role in the destruction of symbiosis is well-documented and cannot be ignored any longer.
… Anthropocene OTNOC picture1.png Intensive agriculture's role in the destruction of symbiosis … to identify the key aspects of industrial agriculture that have violated symbiosis and the … biodiversity dependent on it. Industrial agriculture For those no longer living close to …
The Amazon fire crisis has been 500 years in the making – as Brazil’s indigenous people know only too well.
… the places in which hundreds of distinct cultures evolved over the preceding … landscape. Many of Brazil’s Indigenous cultures are completely oriented around … lecturer in American History and Popular Culture, Coventry University. This article was …
‘Serious questions’ raised over plastic and immune health.
… coated in blood plasma were placed in culture dishes alongside human immune cells … Some 20 percent of immune cells tested in culture dishes without microplastics died …
Localisation can lead to a sustainable and more fulfilling future for people and our planet.
… on every continent, people in their diverse cultures are rejecting this vision of the … the in human scale of a techno-economic monoculture that has infiltrated and manipulated … flourish, while simultaneously re-embedding culture in nature. It means that societies can …
The British Ecological Society has published a new book on rewilding.
Rewilding and human nature Brendan Montague | 6th February 2019 News Rewilding Science & Systems forest-972792_960_720.jpg The British Ecological Society has published a new book on rewilding. …
Plundering nature is the norm within our legal and economic systems. Our survival depends on charting a new course.
… of Law , our politics, economics, law and culture have long been based on the idea that … huge swathes of land for human agriculture entirely normal. This is killing us. …
A law designed to protect elephants, passed with overwhelming popular support and cross-party Parliamentary backing in 2018, could be struck off the statute books.
High Court bid to quash landmark Ivory Act Staff Reporter | 14th October 2019 News High Court Ivory Elephants Trophy Hunting Science & Systems elephant-3325312_960_720.jpg A law designed to protect …
The UKYCC is back for its third 'systems change' guest blog, discussing how climate justice intersects with different forms of oppression.
… institutions and men took land, other cultures and women as things to be conquered … the annexing of land for building, for monoculture agriculture and plantations, for industry, …
Golden Rice will only strengthen the grip of corporations over rice and agriculture, endangering agrobiodiversity and human health.
… the grip of corporations over rice and agriculture, endangering agrobiodiversity and … countries. The Philippines’ Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Plant Industry (DA-BPI) … the grip of corporations over rice and agriculture and will endanger agrobiodiversity and …
Moving away from fossil fuels will require transforming our technological, social, and economic systems, rather than focussing on individual consumption.
… urban built environments and industrial agriculture systems. Available from Pluto Press … countries, the 1980s also heralded throwaway culture. It became cheaper to buy new than to …
Food or War traces the nexus between food and conflict through human history, and explores the food driver in recent and existing conflicts.
… agritectural and aquaponic to ‘cellular agriculture’ systems. Redouble marine aquaculture, especially into deepwater ocean culture and algae farming or water-cropping. …