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Letter From The Farm | A Flamenco Approach to Rural Resilience

The story of El Manzano can evoke a ‘flamenco’ approach to rural resilience, which is rooted in the living reality of peoples’ stories, and not in empty political frameworks and academic foresights.


March 18, 2024

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Romantic anti-capitalism: an interview with Michael Löwy

What is the “rational kernel” of the romantic world-view? It is a social and cultural protest against the modern industrial capitalist civilisation, in the name of past, pre-capitalist, pre-modern values.


March 18, 2024

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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

Apatite mine in Finland

What the Anthropocene’s critics overlook – and why it really should be a new geological epoch

Less than a century ago, processes that began during the Industrial Revolution swung into overdrive. That’s the Anthropocene as an epoch. It’s real, it’s already made geology, and it won’t go away.


March 18, 2024

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Covas do Barroso: Local Resistance to Europe’s Lithium Race

Lithium may be at the heart of the green transition, but mining the metallic element also causes damage to natural environments. In lithium-rich Portugal, modest rural communities join national outrage against governmental deals bypassing local economies and threatening livelihoods.


March 18, 2024

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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

Michel on the lush, plentiful syntropic farming site

Creating a calm, regenerative oasis outside the metropolis of Sao Paulo

Desperto – Centro de Culturas Regenerativas is a regenerative agriculture initiative situated in Vale do Paraiba, Sao Paulo, Brazil.


March 15, 2024

Solar panels in Oregon

We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy

Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.


March 15, 2024

Robot speech

The existential threat of artificial stupidity

Artificial intelligence, then, represents an existential threat to humanity not because of its newness, but because it perpetuates the corporate imperative which was already leading to ecological disaster and civilizational collapse.


March 15, 2024

Reeve and serfs

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

Famous Idaho Potato Tour truck

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

The Rim Fire

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

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