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‘Urban Greenlash’: Why is climate action facing opposition across cities?

In areas around the world, growing opposition to climate action signals a new disruptive wave that researchers call an “urban greenlash,” a backlash against climate plans and policies in cities.


October 9, 2026

Longing to belong: The power of a place called home

A thriving village is a collective creation. People, place, participation, creativity, and inclusion are the ingredients.


October 9, 2026

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Infrastructure, finance, and the sale of the future

Mitchell’s new book reinforces this essential point. We must see through the alibi of capital, we must reclaim society from the grip of the economy, and we must change the rules of the game to save our collective future.


October 9, 2026

Richard Heinberg reading his book 'Power' to his chickens.

Remembering Richard Heinberg: Why I made degrowth art in his memory

The messages and body of work that Richard leaves behind encourage us all to keep striving, creating, and living well within our planet’s limits.


October 8, 2026

‘Inner Degrowth’: An engineer on why the energy crisis and our inner emptiness are the same problem

Marcos Rupérez Cerqueda spent years as an engineer on green hydrogen projects in Spain, installing electrolysers and fuel cells, before the numbers made him stop believing in a technical fix. In this Q&A, he discusses this journey and his new book.


October 8, 2026

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Make America go away…from the deep ocean

So, it’s time we Make America Go Away from the Deep Ocean. Yes, the MAGADO movement.


October 8, 2026

How an invasive weed could help Tucson rebuild from the ground up

An Arizona community’s plan to reuse an invasive weed to construct low-income housing shows that when we can’t pressure the top, we can rebuild from the bottom.


October 7, 2026

Learning to unlearn our baneful relationship with the natural world

How did we, as children, come to believe that banana spiders were ours to capture and kill? We thought nothing of the welfare of the insects.


October 7, 2026

Crazy Town Episode 134

Crazy Town: Episode 134. Finding Crazy Town Part 6: Facing the Future

What would it actually mean to live with less? Can we preserve the things we value most—health, human rights, cultural diversity, individual freedom—without preserving the system that created them?


October 7, 2026

9,000-acre nuclear-powered data center proposed on public lands in Utah

The facility calls for 456 small nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel production and nuclear waste storage. On the same day it surfaced, Sen. Ron Wyden introduced legislation that would ban new data centers.


October 6, 2026

Trust is climate infrastructure: What Mauritius teaches us about building truly resilient communities

Communities that trust their institutions are more willing to participate, collaborate, adapt, and recover. Communities that do not trust them remain vulnerable, regardless of how much climate finance is mobilised.


October 6, 2026

Unordinary Interventions: How to plant seeds for a better future

What can one person actually do about the metacrisis? In this week’s Frankly, Nate explicitly outlines just a few of the countless actions we can take to actually change what’s coming.


October 6, 2026

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