3 Old Technologies For A Sustainable Future
We don’t need high-tech innovation to create a sustainable future for humanity. In fact, all the tech we need to regenerate our ecosystem and provide a good life for all already exists.
April 17, 2024
Beyond legal personhood for the Whanganui River: Collaboration and pluralism in implementing the Te Awa Tupua Act
In 2017, the Whanganui River in Aotearoa New Zealand was given the rights of a legal person under the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017.
April 16, 2024
Draining the World of Fresh Water
The thirst of humans and our technology for water, according to two important studies, is bottomless and accelerating, even if the precious liquid itself is finite on this planet.
April 15, 2024
A short walk through Amazon time: Interview with archaeologist Anna Roosevelt
From an ecological point of view, the significance of the [archaeological] sequence is that the Amazonians have always very much managed the rainforest and rivers.
April 12, 2024
Ecology of the 1%
The bugs and bacteria and fungi of the radical underground economy metabolize and redistribute every resource without judgment of identity and rank, some of it circled back to feed the roots of plants while aboveground leaves open towards the sun to harvest the primitive accumulation of 1% from which all the world’s wealth trickles down.
April 11, 2024
Feeding Ourselves 2024 – Unlocking Local Food Economies
So what’s needed, and what can be done to help embed and amplify agroecological local food provisioning by communities, for communities?
April 10, 2024
Coastal Restoration: Recycled Shells and Millions of Larvae — A Recipe for Renewed Oyster Reefs
As oyster reefs have declined, other marine species have suffered and coastal storm damage has increased. Innovative programs are starting to help.
April 9, 2024
The Dirt On Soil
In this series we explore why soil health matters, how it’s related to our worsening climate crisis, and what individuals and communities can do to protect it.