After 13 yrs on Twitter, @bikemonterey stopped posting on that platform in Nov 2022.

We are also no longer posting on Meta platforms.—We do have a @bikemonterey Instagram account, but it refers people to this Mastodon account. (BTW, if you do Meta, you’ll likely relate to screenshot below.)

Although we set up a @bikemonterey BlueSky acct, it likewise refers to this Mastodon acct.

As a chief information officer of a Monterey County transportation agency posted on Mastodon on July 6, 2025: “Change isn’t easy. And transformational change requires perseverance and dedication. It doesn’t have to be fanatical. Honestly medium-level relentless will do.” https://mastodon.world/@NoRomBasic/114808599939418491

#SystemsChange #SocialMedia #Mastodon #democracy #PowerToThePeople #Meta #CorporateGreed #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMedia

Good Idea: Measuring prosperity beyond GDP

https://www.politico.eu/article/obsession-with-growth-is-destroying-nature-150-countries-warn/

More than 150 countries including China, India and EU members have signed off on a report by IPBES, the leading intergovernmental body for biodiversity assessment, concluding that GDP-focused growth is a primary driver of biodiversity loss. The numbers behind it: one eighth of all estimated 8 million plant and animal species are threatened with extinction, and 75 percent of the Earth's land surface has already been significantly altered by human activity.

The core argument is not anti-economy but pro-accuracy. Markets currently do not price what ecosystems actually provide -- pollination, climate regulation, water filtration -- so those services get consumed without appearing in any balance sheet until they collapse. The report calls out perverse business incentives, weak enforcement, and models built around ever-increasing material consumption as the structural causes.

The US was not among the signatories and has announced its withdrawal from IPBES. The EU, despite signing, is simultaneously running a deregulatory agenda aimed at relaxing environmental standards to boost competitiveness.

The full assessment is the result of three years of work and is the most broadly endorsed scientific statement on the link between economic models and nature loss to date.

#Biodiversity #Degrowth #Economics #PolicyChange #NatureCrisis #Sustainability #SystemsChange

It's apparently World Localization Day, and I've made the wise choice to stay up very late to attend the first session of New Economy Network of Australia's Post-Growth Futures Week on building local futures through transition and regrowth. Amazing discussion on the need to imagine the lives we actually want to live, connect with others, and create a world that allows all to thrive.

I'm looking forward to the rest of the week! (And to watching the recording of this session to catch all the stuff I missed -- central standard time is just a wee bit behind Australian eastern standard time...)

Event link here for those interested: https://events.humanitix.com/nena-post-growth-futures-week-2026

#economics #localization #localisation #communityResilience #postGrowth #degrowth #newEconomy #systemsChange

How the neoliberals won — and what we can learn from them

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-06-02/how-the-neoliberals-won-and-what-we-can-learn-from-them/

History suggests inequality ends in catastrophe. We need another path

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-05-19/history-suggests-inequality-ends-in-catastrophe-we-need-another-path/

Seeds Series Volume 2: Building regenerative economies in an age of collapse

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-05-20/seeds-series-volume-2-building-regenerative-economies-in-an-age-of-collapse/

Real economic change requires more than reform, we must build a solidarity economy

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-05-14/real-economic-change-requires-more-than-reform-we-must-build-a-solidarity-economy/

How a different kind of education built the world’s most equal democracies

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-05-14/how-a-different-kind-of-education-built-the-worlds-most-equal-democracies/

How environmental destruction is built into corporate design

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-05-11/how-environmental-destruction-is-built-into-corporate-design/

"Sweet dreams. How the doughnut diagram works to preempt more radical approaches to planning"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14730952261448510
>This analysis shows that the doughnut diagram forecloses ways of seeing and enjoying that more fundamentally could challenge mainstream planning.

#systemschange #donuteconomics #doughnuteconomics #kateraworth