Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
highlighting the environmental protections purportedly shielding
Julian Hoffman • Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wild places
When everything is convertible, and when trust depends on anonymous coins and cowry shells, it corrodes local traditions, intimate relations and human values, replacing them with the cold laws of supply and demand.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens

Abundance is fueled by constantly circulating materials, not wasting them
Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry
Through habitat loss and shocking abuse, the indigenous defenders of our natural world are fighting for their rights to survive. Indigenous people protect 80% of our world’s biodiversity. If this 5% are protecting 80% of global biodiversity, what is it that the rest of us are doing? The more we connect and appreciate nature, the more we might want
... See moreTony Riddle • Be More Human
University of Massachusetts economist James Boyce, Indian environmentalists Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain, and others, this work has found that income and human well-being expand when degraded land, water, and ecosystems are cleaned up and repurposed by the people who live on and around them.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy

L’exode conquérant des Européens a également installé un ordre mondial provoquant le fameux clivage Nord/Sud et ses gigantesques disparités, en érigeant une divinité tutélaire absolue, que l’on appelle finance. Le citoyen sans salaire et sans ressource perd toute réalité sociale ; il est réduit à l’état d’indicateur du niveau minimal de la
... See morePierre Rabhi • Vers la sobriété heureuse: Nouvelle édition (French Edition)
An environmentalist such as Vandana Shiva directs her critique and ire less at national governments than at the idea of the global itself.