Sam Bliss
Resilience.org
Seattle, WA, United States
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Past articles by Sam:
Degrowth resonates: a reflection on DegrowthFest 2020
Our neighbors took interest in degrowth. It was an occasion for community education, reflection, and imagination → Read More
Gathering Degrowth in the American Pluriverse
The 2018 degrowUS gathering from September 28-30 2018 in Chicago began with a question "How do you explain degrowth to your friends and family?" → Read More
Defending Degrowth at Ecomodernism’s Home
Degrowth hope to shrink the physical size of wealthy economies, while decoupling hopes that growing economies will break free from growing resource use → Read More
Stopping Climate (In)justice
Climate (in)justice refers specifically to the unfair distribution of benefits and damages related to climate change...A handful of humans profit → Read More
Trump’s Budget will Likely Increase Carbon Emissions
President Trump’s budget request for fiscal year 2018 threatens to increase the U.S. government’s carbon footprint in several important ways... → Read More
My Journey Towards Degrowth
Setting aside some of my big ambitions — studying, writing, trying to amass twitter followers — to simply move slowly evolved my understanding of how to degrow. → Read More
Spending time in a controversial camp that’s blocking tar-sands pipelines
The Unist’ot’en Camp in Canada isn't just out to block tar-sands pipelines. Campers are also developing a resilient community. → Read More
Artisans transform one small town’s economy
Welcome to Tieton, Wash. The town of 1,200 could hold lessons for rural America. → Read More
The real sharing economy doesn’t require apps, just kindness
In the middle of a trans-continent bike trip, our hero discovers that in rural America, sharing comes naturally. → Read More
Can the sharing economy get this guy from Seattle to London by bike?
Former Grist fellow Sam Bliss just gave away most of his belongings and set off for the other side of the world. Here's hoping karma is really a thing. → Read More
This affordable housing complex has a solar farm on its roof
A community solar project in Seattle is powering the real sharing economy. → Read More
These urban farmers want to feed the whole neighborhood -- for free
The Beacon Food Forest plants the heirloom seeds of a real sharing economy. → Read More
This co-op bike shop will teach you to fix your own damn bike (and that matters)
The bike kitchen movement greases the gears of the real sharing economy. → Read More
The sharing economy is bullsh!t. Here's how we can take it back
Real sharing can help solve big problems like climate change. But we have to start small. → Read More
Meet the last 3 millennials who don't have smartphones
Can three young, tech-savvy writers pull off a tweetstorm on their antiquated clamshell phones? Find out. → Read More
This supermarket sells your food waste back to you in raccoon form
Not only is raccoon meat perfectly legal in California, it's also a brilliant way to reduce food waste. → Read More
Big Oil is desperate for your love. Watch their silly plea in this insane video
Divestment means breaking up with fossil fuels. We're ready to move on. → Read More
There's a scary toxin in your beer can, and it isn't alcohol
BPA is in beer cans -- even your local, small-batch, organic smoked stout. → Read More
Watch our juicy explainer about the environment's growing economics problem
This video makes the case for degrowth, an idea that's about producing and consuming less for our well-being and the planet's. → Read More
Norway divests from coal, promises to cut carbon, steals our hearts
O Nordic land, will you be our tall, blue-eyed, climate-hawk Valentine? → Read More