There's a lovely quote by Rebecca Solnit, "to hope is to accept despair as an emotion but not as an analysis. To recognize that what is unlikely is possible, just as what likely is not inevitable."

That's a nice way to think of it, I've felt I must be on the bad alternate timeline for a while now. Maybe this is a healing branch!

I'm working on a book about The Lord of the Rings and the Modern Environmentalist Movement. Mid writing the book, a key climate doc I needed disappeared from climate.gov. These ladies saved it, and I am very grateful.

I love it. And somewhere back in the base there's a hardbitten sargeant breaking in the raw recruits, chewing them out for flying to get to their base and making them scrub the bathroom with organic cleaners on a compostable toothbrush.

I've found that town-level organizing is satisfying, and a scale where a small group of individuals can help make bigger change.

My town government agreed a few years ago to adopt the sustainablect.org framework, which has a bunch of green/sustainable elements I am really excited about.

Once the town agrees in principle to a framework, you can advocate for policies based on that framework, and mobilize people who are particularly interested in one issue (say, composting!) or another (sidewalk networks! green energy!)

The trick, I think, is to find a framework the town government is willing to support (in principle) with specific changes. The fact that there's a certification program to go along with the framework that has prestige is really helpful. But really, the core of it all is to find a bunch of folks in your community that want to push things forward towards a goal with a shared vision. Which means that ultimately community organizing is what makes it possible, in my experience.

I've never seen this chart. What a story!

Pretty machine. Probably not for me, but pretty.

Holy cow. Thanks for sharing - I had no idea this existed.

Open source is like a pressure valve for how much companies can screw people over. I hope this becomes a big thing.

It is terrifying in its wickedness, yes. But it also opens up powerful possibilities for resistance. To bet against the future on this scale – to bank on your bunker – is to betray, on the most basic level, our duties to one another, to the children we love, and to every other life form with whom we share a planetary home. This is a belief system that is genocidal at its core and treasonous to the wonder and beauty of this world. We are convinced that the more people understand the extent to which the right has succumbed to the Armageddon complex, the more they will be willing to fight back, realizing that absolutely everything is now on the line.

ha! I have the same background. Great minds...

I've been surprised by several people and institutions I trust backing Styer. Dr. Leah Stokes, who I deeply respect, is excited by Steyer: https://fed.brid.gy/...

From a policy perspective I like what I hear. If only he weren't a billionaire self funding his campaign... At any rate, not my election to vote in.

a lovely magazine.

enjoy!

Every time I return the community here feels more vibrant. Thanks for your work!

Anything that evokes Mucha is great in my book!

I love this

looks wonderful! Enjoy!

that was lovely

I hadn't heard of "Always Coming Home" before - a new LeGuin for me to read! Thanks for sharing this.