Coming Together in the Great Turning: Excerpt
Realizing a vision of the Beloved Community requires that we practice beloved community daily, contributing to greater safety, dignity, and belonging for everyone.
Commoning as Relational Provisioning & Governance
In the face of capitalist economics and states intent on asserting their dominance and control, commoners have a mindset that is more expansive, experimental, self-reliant and localist than the market/state dares to imagine.
Ireland | Feeding Ourselves, breaking new ground for the local food movement
Farmers, following a bodhrán deftly drummed by Talamh Beo’s Fergal Anderson, brought themselves and their produce from their farms, telling a little of their stories of who they are, what they do, and how they do it. They stood front and centre, and it centred us too.
How We’ve ‘Drugified’ Our Entire Existence: Dopamine & Addiction In the Digital Age
In this episode, Nate is joined by New York Times bestselling author and professor of psychiatry, Anna Lembke, to explore how modern society has “drugified” our lived experience through digital media, processed foods, and instant gratification, resulting in an environment that propagates addiction.
Bioregionalism, Commoning, and Relationalized Finance
Bioregionalism offers a practical, politically accessible space for addressing climate change, social inequality, the eclipse of democracy, out-of-control oligarchs, and capitalist growth.
A political strategy for degrowth
In all cases, a political strategy for a mass party must emerge from the mass of people that it is supposed to serve.
The Challenges and Socio-Ecological Importance of Delimiting Colombia’s Wetlands
Artisanal fishermen are advocating for the demarcation of the ciénagas – the natural environment which feeds them, provides them protection from flooding in the rainy seasons and whose amphibious shores are where they cultivate seasonal crops.
Ditching Dualism #7: Objections
Why is strict materialism a hard sell for many in our dualist-dominated culture?
Review: The Documerica Project (documentary review)
This is an engaging, visually arresting film that skillfully interweaves archival imagery, social commentary, interviews and verité footage. It serves both as a record of a past moment and a call to reflect on the unfinished work of environmental stewardship.
The Securitization of Minerals in the EU: Why Europe is Not Immune to the Resource Curse
This article examines how access to mineral raw materials in the EU has been transformed through a process of securitization over the last two decades. What was once mainly a matter of economic policy and trade has been reframed—through narratives constructed by industrial lobbies and political allies—as an existential issue for European security and survival.
World on the Brink: Will History Bring Us Full Circle?
Each New Year prompts us to think about hope. As we enter 2026, how might we think about our prospects for hope?
Growing the Nourishment We Seek
The garden is a profoundly simple setting for reconnecting with the earth, with one another, and with ourselves.
