Beyond the supermarket: What Greece’s alternative food networks teach us about degrowth
Thessaloniki’s grassroots food networks offer a glimpse of what food systems organized around care and democracy, rather than profit and endless growth, can look like.
August 27, 2026
The case for smartphones as a contributor to falling birth rates
Among economic stress, affordability, and climate change dread, is smartphone use another factor in the downward trend in fertility rates?
August 26, 2026
Donald Trump gives decline new meaning
Donald Trump’s America is undoubtedly going to give imperial decline new meaning, while just one major power seems to be on top (so to speak) of the situation in any way whatsoever. And that power is, of course, China.
August 25, 2026
Devastating News: The Loss of Richard Heinberg
On Sunday, July 19, we lost our kind, brilliant friend and colleague, Richard Heinberg.
August 4, 2026
How to Think About the Future – Part 5: How to build resilience from within
Nate scales his exploration of civilizational futures down to the future of a single human life and analyzes how the same patterns that shape economies, power, geopolitics, and Earth systems turn inward.
July 20, 2026
Crazy Town: Episode 129. Finding Crazy Town Part 1: The Strait of Everything
What happens when the global economy depends on fish traveling 10,000 miles, oil flowing through a single strait, and enough cheap fossil fuel energy to build civilizations that previous generations couldn’t even imagine?
July 15, 2026
How US renewable-energy growth persists despite federal policy uncertainty
Despite recent shifts in federal energy policies, a Carbon Brief analysis shows that the US transition to renewable energy is continuing.
July 14, 2026
Nourishing a Bioregional Economy
In the globalized economy, money is the shaper of outcomes, including whose work is valued, how the natural world gets used (and abused), and even who gets into political office. If bioregioning is critical to achieving a prosocial and environmentally sound society, the economy needs to go bioregional too.
