Climate Politics Today: The View from Washington
The most serious question is: how can anything get done without compromise? Democracy doesn’t work without it, government fails to function, and it’s the people that pay the price.
Community Care After the Maui Wildfire
Three weeks after the fire, when asked what people in Lāhainā, Hawai‘i, needed the most, Chris Mangca didn’t answer with a list of supplies. Instead, he said, “They need a break, love, some happiness, to see that people care about them.”
United by the flow of the River Exe
Last month, the River Exe came alive with song, night swimming, stories and a wild salmon run for the first Festival of the River Exe.
Luke Gromen: “Peak Cheap Oil and the Global Reserve Currency”
On this episode, financial analyst Luke Gromen joins Nate to discuss how the availability of cheap energy has underpinned our current financial architecture and expectations – and what peak cheap oil implies for the future.
The convergence: climate and economy become one
At a minimum, we must align the signifiers of economic success with known ecological indicators — and this is just the first step on a long, complex realignment. If we fail to undertake this journey, we will be stuck paying for our own apocalypse.
The wholeness of the word: ‘Regenesis’ as myth, Part II
Myths speak through individual authors and are given definition by them, but they’re painted on a bigger canvas than any one person.
Are WE Lucky?
When contemplating an action, think to yourself: “Would this likely be a net benefit to US (the community of life), or a net harm?”
How heat pumps became a Nordic success story
Policymakers in countries where heat pumps are still in their infancy do not have to start from scratch, but can learn from – and build on – the heat-pump success story in Norway, Finland and Sweden.
Been Drivin’ for Months Out Here
I need this desert, more than it needs me
its sound vibrating through me
the water churning
rushing down the river bed
but it was only a momentary occurrence
where did it go?
The Wisdom of Fungi Inspires Community Conservation
These mycophiles envision a massive shift in our society’s relationship with the more-than-human world—a reknitting of ourselves into webs of life and death, reciprocity and mutual obligation.
The Anthropocene? No. We’re Actually Entering the Ecocene!
If humanity is to survive, it will have to learn how to get in sync with natural systems, culturally and economically, and actively contribute to the flourishing of earthly and human systems in tandem.
The Slow-Motion Equivalent of a Nuclear War?
It couldn’t be more inappropriate to use the term “new Cold War” right now on a globe where a previously unimagined version of a hot war is staring us all, including most distinctly the United States and China, in the face.
