In Defense of the Herring People
The herring do not have voices. That’s why people like Khasheechtlaa Louise Brady and the Herring Protectors must speak for them.
Material: The Art of Handcrafting Beautiful Objects in a Digital Age
This book is a fluid path from an idea, along a stream bed whose variations, detours and eddies are unknown until the water that flows into it finds itself moved.
Can non-natives play nice with natives?
Landscapes and gardens are not an argument to be won but a set of spaces that can stir the senses and spark a larger conversation.
“Post Growth”—Why and How?
We want positive growth, which first requires an end to global warming and attention to other on-coming ecological crises.
New consciousness: the brass ring
From a society-wide perspective, a new consciousness a involves major cultural change and a reorientation of what society values and prizes most highly.
Letter from the Farm | Wild Geese and Tamed Farming – is it All for the Birds?
The farm shop taking the lead on Jan Gonne’s farm could indeed be his lucky punch – if island tourism and the currently only alternative to the supermarket stay profitable.
Where Can We Live?
In the West, we would do well to consider places like Brazil in developing a strategy to start down the path to ending homelessness here and we would do well to consider the power of the 8 to 11 million unhoused people who know what they need and are finally beginning to organize for their future.
Money is a Social Agreement—Let’s Start Treating It That Way
Only when we leave cartoonish barter villages to the world of fiction and embrace money as a social agreement will we truly make money work for us.
The Fracking Free-Market Fallacy
The way popular understandings of economics shape our ability to accurately perceive the role of government in the fracking boom is an extremely complex and nuanced problem. The small facet I attempt to tackle here is the role of our belief in the free market.
How to Stop the AG-onizing Resistance to US Climate Policy
In the melee that marks the 2024 election year, it is easy to lose focus on down-ballot candidates that have as much—perhaps more—influence over US climate policy as the presidential contenders. Who are these influencers? Naturally, they’re the lawyers!
From Plato to AI: Are we losing our minds?
Each step in human evolution has brought inventions that threaten to weaken our innate abilities.
Political Collapse: Lessons From Fallen Empires
Our investigation of the disastrous society-wide collapses of four premodern polities, China’s Ming Dynasty, the South Asian Mughal Empire, the High Roman Empire, and Renaissance Venice led to the discovery of an unexpected historical pattern.
