Yet more boondoggles: Extracting carbon dioxide from the air, mining asteroids
Many of the proposed solutions to climate change and resource depletion are really just boondoggles that benefit a few insiders
Eating at the Old Growth Table
At the Old Growth table, we honor the ingredients as the wisdom keepers they are. And we humbly nod to the Ancestors who have kept our birthrights and lifeways intact.
Does US Climate Policy Have a Herring Problem? (Part 3)
The ultimate question SCOTUS must answer is this:
Is there ever a time when the health of democracy trumps judicial philosophies and precedents? If not now, when?
Polycrisis Four Square
There’s a game you might remember from childhood called Four Square. Four kids stand in a 2×2 grid with one kid yelling out rules on how they can hit the ball—with their hands, feet, only while grunting, etc. If you fail to pass on the ball, you’re out and some other kid takes your spot.
Nation-states are destroying the world. Could ‘bioregions’ be the answer?
Now, from the war-torn border regions of South Asia to the Amazon rainforest, people are questioning whether sustainability can ever be achieved through the framework of nation-states. They are turning to other ways of organising society based on Indigenous worldviews and practices that respect all humans and the rest of nature.
Listening the New Into Being
There is no limit to what we can collectively create once we align our intention, attention, and agency on the scale of the whole.
Both/and?: The Climate Majority Project and the Radical Flank
When we adapt transformatively to the climate damage that is HERE and the significantly worse climate damage that is coming, and when we do so in a manner that is inviting rather than alienating, then we make this horrific crisis real to people in a manner that merely ‘raising the alarm’ can no longer do…
Tromelin Island’s Impressive Comeback
But small as it is, Tromelin Island shows that seabirds are resilient. If people can get rid of invasive predators, island restoration can work—sometimes stunningly.
Seven Features of Ancient Enterprise
The changing context for enterprise through the centuries reminds us that business activities are not universal but fluid and alter according to society’s practical priorities and ethics.
Climate activists in New England can finally celebrate ‘the end of coal’
When we fight, we really do win. And what we win is the ultimate bulwark against climate grief and despair. We find each other.
Barefoot Biodynamics: Excerpt
An immediate halt to chemical fertilizing and returning to the use of compost instead would turn degeneration into regeneration.
What’s the Point?
If the meaning in your life is contingent on modernity, then maybe you’ve come to the wrong shop, and ought to look for new forms of meaning that are built to last.
