DRC Bleeds Conflict Minerals For Green Growth
As violent militias rampage across the country, activists in the DRC are urgently calling for a green transition that puts justice first, not new revenue streams, and that dismantles colonial exploitation once and for all.
March 19, 2024
How to talk about climate change and the problem with doomerism
Should we be yelling that the sky is falling at every chance? Or might that paralyze us into inaction, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy?
March 19, 2024
Samantha Sweetwater: “Life at the Center”
On this episode, thought leader and ceremonial guide Samantha Sweetwater joins Nate to share her journey through mysticism and guiding others through their own unique spiritual paths.
March 18, 2024
Attending to the sacred
This is the formidable challenge of our times – to create limits and localism while not creating arbitrary rules of social exclusion.
March 18, 2024
Too Legit to Quit: Rethinking Legitimacy of Territorial Claims
Eradicating colonization is not a matter of granting sovereignty to native populations, it is a matter of eradicating the right to exclude that comes with European sovereignty, getting rid of legitimate territorial claims altogether.
March 14, 2024
Climate Politics: The View from Washington (3/12/24)
Will the passage of this current year’s appropriations be enough to convince voters in swing districts that Republicans can govern? That’s yet to be seen.
March 14, 2024
No, it’s not the Anthropocene
Earth’s new regime, once it has stabilized, will surely be classifiable as a new geological epoch—but currently it’s too soon to name it. We’re still in the midst of the transitory event that is driving the end of the Holocene and the beginning of something else.
March 14, 2024
The Great Unraveling
Environmental and social challenges are compounding to threaten the systems that support the world we know. What does this Great Unraveling mean for human civilization and the global ecosystem?