Driving Progress • John Merrick
On the tragedy of car culture and lessons from urbanist Marshall Berman
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Reading Marshall Berman for the Climate Crisis • Katie Mulkowsky
In his 1982 classic, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, the late urbanist Marshall Berman rallied against car-centric cities and offered a radical vision for a better way to live together.
• 15 min read
Heatwave 2.0 • John Merrick, Adrienne Buller
Reflections on scorching temperatures, denial and adapting to a new world. Plus, analysis of the separatist movement in Alberta, Canada.
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Petro-Separatism on the Prairies • Michael Ledger-Lomas
The once-fringe dream of Albertan independence has gained new prominence, forcing Canada to confront the political and economic power of fossil fuels.
• 14 min read
The Heat of the Game • John Merrick
Football in a warming world
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Reflections on a Heatwave • Adrienne Buller
Thoughts from our weekly newsletter on a record-shattering heatwave and the direction of climate politics.
• 6 min read
The Great Biodiversity Bake Off • Audrey Irvine-Broque, Jessica Dempsey
Biodiversity markets promise to generate finance to protect vital ecosystems. In doing so, they entrench the very austerity conditions that make them vulnerable in the first place.
• 10 min read
Santa Marta Versus Fossil Capital • Wim Carton, Joel Wainwright
The radical potential of the Santa Marta conference is already under threat. The gathering in Colombia marked a historic moment, but the moment must be seized.
• 10 min read
The Chapel and the Nuclear Plant • Robert Newton
At a remote Essex chapel shadowed by a dormant nuclear plant, a battle over a new reactor is reshaping old conflicts between conservation, community and state power.
• 18 min read
Air Travels • Shruti Iyer
It's easy to think of silicosis as a disease of the past. But even today it is one of the great workplace killers, cutting sharply along class lines.
• 15 min read
Rock Dove Recon • Zsuzsanna Ihar
On the Scottish island of North Uist, a local fight against the construction of a spaceport captures a wider resistance to capital's occupation of the land and air.
• 14 min read
Chaos in the Air • Drew Pendergrass
Against Friedrich Hayek’s market mysticism, complexity science points toward the need for collective intelligence and planning.