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SHIFT-Magazine #0003 the global change-makers’ magazine Activist Superpowers A Complex Predicament: PART 3 - THE ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICAMENT THE NEW SACRED ACTIVISM FAREWELL MICHAEL RUPPERT, and thank you. The Politics of Going Beyond Coal: THE PURSUIT A PEOPLE-POWERED OF HAPPINESS MOVEMENT - CHANGEMAKER PROFILE - David Rovics: The Communicator ISSUE #3 THE POWER OF WE ALL CONTENT IS Dear reader, CONTENTS CREDITS Welcome to the third issue of SHIFT magazine! FEATURES If you’re reading SHIFT, chances are you realize all is not well with Editorial team 53 The Human Race: the world, and are hungry for change. Our ever-evolving world Sean Crawley Farewell Michael Ruppert, and Thank You The Tyranny of “Me”? is a place of pain and beauty, of desperation and hope, and of 4 Kari McGregor Wesley T. Miller, Jenna Orkin & Guy McPherson pay Sean Crawley mulls over society’s modern-day inspiration and tragedy. Striking a balance is never easy, and to do Graphic design tribute to the life and work of peak-oil analyst Michael obsession with the empire of the self, and its role in our so requires a shift in attitude, in direction, and in the conversations C. Ruppert. apparent inability to change the course of our culture. Ben Matei our society holds. David Zwolski 15 A Complex Predicament: How our Energy, Economic REGULARS Cover artwork Thank you for taking part in the much-needed shift in public and Ecological Systems are Creative Director - Ben Matei discourse, and for making time for the conversations that matter. Connected The Critically Endangered Photographer - Alex Cahill 7 Species File: Models - Sean O’keeffe, Brendan Crew, Kasia Targowski, SHIFT is a labour of love for the all-volunteer team that people- Feedback Loops, the Jevons Paradox, Jordan Anne, Chanel De Pledge powers its way into print every second month. Traversing time-zones and the Three End Games: The Leatherback Turtle Special Thanks to CHRIS HUZZARD STUDIOS and the treadmill, our team has worked wonders on a shoestring Part 3 - The Environmental Predicament Sean Crawley investigates what is driving the global decline of the Leatherback Turtle, and what can be done Contributing artists In the final of this three-part series, Dave Pollard gets to budget, investigating, interviewing, visioning, scribbling, editing, to pull this remarkable species back from the brink. Martin Sharman - https://www.flickr.com/photos/sharman/ grips with the complexity of our environmental crisis, and designing, and printing this third issue of ad-free critique, and what it all means for us. Michel - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mtchm/ inspiration to practical action. 11 Changemaker Profile: Alex Loach - https://www.flickr.com/photos/53825985@N02/ 31 When Surrender Does Not Mean Giving David Rovics: The Communicator Glenn Halog - https://www.flickr.com/photos/ghalog/ Issue #3 of SHIFT sets out to explore people-power, the ‘power of Up: The New Sacred Activism Kari McGregor met with independent artist and one’ that each of us possesses to make a difference, to deposit a Carolyn Baker unpacks the concept of the new Sacred political songwriter David Rovics to explore the power Activism, an idea whose time has come in the face of a of music for telling the stories of our times. drop in the bucket of change, no matter how insignificant each drop future filled with uncertainty. NEXT ISSUE RELEASE alone may seem. An exploration of our strengths and weaknesses, our assets and flaws, and our strides despite our setbacks, this issue 41 The Politics of The Pursuit of Happiness 23 Top 10: is an honest celebration of ‘the power of we’. Of course, not all is Bayo Akomolafe challenges our culture’s concept of Activist Superpowers happiness, questioning how it is achieved, and why it 21st July plain-sailing in the change-makers’ world, so in this issue we devote Activism really can be for everyone, and we all bring our seems to be so elusive for so many. own skills to the mix. What’s your activist superpower? a little space to the need for social support, time and space for READ ONLINE, DOWNLOAD, reflection, and the pitfalls of committing oneself entirely to a cause. 46 Activism and the Gifts of Imperfection ORDER HARD COPY Miss Metanoia explores the role of minorities and the DEPARTMENTS Change-makers from diverse disciplines and backgrounds disadvantaged in the privilege-dominated arena of collaborate over SHIFT, delivering fresh food for thought to assist activism. www.shift-magazine.org the shift in our conversations, our ideas, and our actions. Every 1 From the SHIFT team issue of SHIFT also aims to feature a couple of submissions from our COLUMNS readers, so if you fancy wordsmithing your way into print, pitch us 3 Contributors your idea and we’ll take it from there. Submission guidelines and FOLLOW US AROUND 9 Growthbusting: forms are on our website at www.sustainabilitysc.org. 22 Subscribe Sustainable Thinking… Pass It On! Free from commercial advertising, SHIFT is fully supported by digital @ShowcaseSustain Dave Gardner’s latest big idea: a pyramid scheme for 61 Economize Cryptic Crossword /AllAboutTheSHIFT the sustainability movement. #SHIFTmag and hard-copy purchases and subscriptions from our readers. This means you get to read only the stuff you want to read, in the format 60 References The Overthinker: you want it in, and don’t have to leaf through pages and pages of 27 Going Beyond Coal: A People-Powered consumer-paradigm junk. Thank you so much for your support, your Movement company in these interesting times, and your feedback that enables CONTACT US Kari McGregor travels to the Galilee Basin in SHIFT to evolve. Queensland’s rural heartland to connect the dots on the people-powered movement to put fossil fuels where they We hope that you will find SHIFT an inspiring and empowering belong: in the past. [email protected] +61 7 5450 0892 (Australia) read, and that you will find information worth sharing. Take care, and have a good read! 49 Doing it Ourselves: Where Collapse Meets Radical Politics Love and solidarity, This magazine has been Theo Kitchener explores a new radical politics, the printed on acid-free nexus point where the radical left meets transition. 100% recycled paper. departments CONTRIBUTORS Dave Gardner Kari McGregor Dave Gardner has worked as a professional A committed downshifter, Kari’s career film director for 30 years, and directed the pathway through non-profit management documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on and mainstream education recently Growth. He is also founding contributor at culminated in a leap from the treadmill and Growth Bias Busted, the media watchdog a return to her activist roots. Harbouring project that sheds light on the pro-growth nomadic tendencies, she has lived in the bias in our media. He writes, films and speaks UK, Spain and Thailand before settling in regularly about our culture’s addiction to Australia and making the Sunshine Coast growth. Dave is based in Colorado Springs, her home for now. Kari now divides her time GrowthBusters USA. /TheOverthinker.org between consulting for the non-profit world, and working for the grassroots non-profit, @growthbusters @ThinksItOver Sustainability Showcase. She blogs as The Overthinker, freelancing a critical spin on our planetary predicament. www.growthbusters.org www.theoverthinker.org Miss Metanoia Bayo Akomolafe Miss Metanoia, aka Anne Nguyen, ‏is Adebayo Akomolafe (PhD) is a clinical a millennial-generation freelance writer, psychologist, lecturer, speaker and author cultural creative, and professional homebody. from Covenant University in Nigeria. He is A digital native, she critiques culture through an activist for a radical paradigm shift in the lens of a generation raised on selfies consciousness and current ways of living, an and status updates, whilst attempting to emerging voice calling for the re-enchantment navigate an economic and political terrain of indigenous ways of being in the world. In unrecognizable to previous generations of 2011, Bayo initiated a book project called thinkers. Miss Metanoia is based in Sydney, ‘We will tell our stories: Reimagining the @stalksnu Australia. Koru Conversations Social Sciences in Africa’, and is currently publishing the book in collaboration with other leading African intellectuals. www.miss-metanoia.blogspot.com.au Bayo Akomolafe Theo Kitchener Dave Pollard Farewell Michael Ruppert, Theo Kitchener has a background in activism Dave Pollard retired from paid work in and community building, and more recently 2010 after 35 years as an advisor to small has been working to raise awareness around enterprises. He is a long-time student of and Thank You collapse and transition possibilities through our culture and its systems, of history and the Melbourne-based volunteer group, Doing of how the world really work. His books It Ourselves. Self-described apocaloptimist, include Finding the Sweet Spot: The Natural Theo is positive about the future, focusing Entrepreneur’s Guide to Responsible, on community, permaculture, appropriate Sustainable, Joyful Work, and Group friend and colleague, Jenna Orkin. technology, voluntary simplicity, participatory Works: A Pattern Language for Bringing Michael C. Ruppert was a peak oil analyst, Doing It Ourselves democracy, community economics and our @DavePollard Life to Meetings and Other Gatherings. He Along with some parting words from potential transformation. Theo is based in is currently working on a collection of short investigative journalist, and activist. Many www.doingitourselves.org Melbourne Australia. www.howtosavetheworld.ca stories about the world two millennia from Guy McPherson, these speeches are now. He lives on Bowen Island, Canada. readers may know Mike as author of Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American published in the pages that follow. Sean Crawley Carolyn Baker Empire at the End of the Age of Oil, or as the subject of the 2009 documentary Collapse, In solidarity with Mike’s nearest and Sean Crawley has decided to hang around Carolyn Baker, Ph.D.
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