Demonization of the 15 minute city

Discussion on SCORAI Listserv March 2023 Maurie Cohen Has anyone been paying attention to how car-free lifestyles have become a subject for contestation in the culture wars in the US and UK over the past few weeks?  Two articles about an event that took place in...

ICYMI on Cognitive Capacity

Could we do more? Why don’t we solve overshoot? Are we in Collapsosphere? Edited from a discussion on SCORAI listserv in January 2023 which started with a post by Ashwani Vasishth on whether we were doing enough to increase the use of renewable energies. The...

Living in a Post Growth Era

ICYMI Autumn 2022 A dialogue initiated by Halina Brown A recent article on public acceptance of post-growth is posted on the SCORAI website. Lily Paulson and Milena Büchs of University of Leeds report that in their survey 60.5 percent of people in 34 European...

Can citizen action be effective for climate change?

ICYMI – Blog from Listserv thread August 2022 (edited by Valerie Brachya) Dr. Ortrud Leßmann initiated the thread on: Citizens’ action plan on climate change – following a quote from Ingrid Robeyns ‘4. Let’s look critically at our consumption, but prioritize...