The Reality of the Green Transition
Energy is meant to supply vitality, not threaten destruction. It is the flow of life through an ecosystem.
New Social Spaces
Maybe fighting to save the high street through the power of social enterprise and community business is the wrong fight. Maybe we should be fighting instead for ownership of these new places in the new high street?
Distilled Disintegration
If someone’s gut reaction is to dismiss talk of modernity’s demise as dismal doomerism, I wonder what bolsters their confidence in the opposite conclusion.
Leo Infrastructure
Only as visionaries will we get a realistic chance of narrowing the gap between the world we got and a world we would be happy to live in.
Crazy Town 82. Escaping Urbanism: Green Acres, Climate Migration, and the End of the Megacity
Did a whimsical 1960s TV sitcom presage climate migration and a reversal of urban growth? We’re not calling for a Godzilla-esque teardown of cities, but climate change is forcing a serious urban rethink. Jason, Rob, and Asher offer visions of better infrastructure, policies, and culture that you can embrace, even if your home is in the city.
The Fellowship of the Ring: ‘Bend Not Break’ Version
In this Frankly, Nate recasts his favorite book series, the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, with some speculative “archetypes” of our human world grouped by various timelines.
Integrating Indigenous Wisdom with Systems Change: The Insights of Dr. Melanie Goodchild
Melanie emphasizes the importance of engaging with the earth not as a resource but as a teacher, a source of healing and wisdom.
Can we evolve? Part 2.
By changing the reality on the ground, institutions and superstructures as well as cultures, we can create positive self-reinforcing feedback loops for change. Ignoring capitalism to death.
How a small church in a Vermont town addresses climate change
A couple years ago a project launched at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Brattleboro, Vt., aimed at making the whole church campus– church, education wing, and rectory– powered 110% by clean, renewable energy by 2030.
Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet
Schneider invites us to consider a daring idea, that “online spaces could be sites of creative, radical and democratic renaissance.”
The Anatomy of Narrative Change
Today, let’s examine this narrative change using the example of car-centricity. My goal here is to show you the amazing things that are possible when we break free from the old way of thinking and doing.
Art After Petro-Capitalism, Part 1
Were we to be liberated from the shackles of petro-capitalism and its productivist whip, we would inevitably dedicate some of our hard-won free time to making more art.
