Escaping Modernism
Big History, however, seems to have chosen to reside in the ontological domain of modernism; as a result, it sees itself as detached from the very processes it purports to study.
Crazy Town: Episode 75. How to Lose Friends and Demoralize People: The Science (sic!) of Near-Term Extinction
Meet Guy McPherson, the extinction enthusiast who undermines legitimate climate concerns by predicting we’re all going to die yesterday. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
Putting the Meadow Back Into Your Loaf
We evolved with fermentation. Our language and cognitive function, our physiological and social structure, evolved around bread.
The Perils of EROI
On this Frankly, Nate discusses a frequently used but often misunderstood way of interpreting the efficiency of an energy source: Energy Return On Investment.
Using GDP to estimate the limits to growth
As we’ve emphasized at CASSE for two decades, “Sustainability is a steady state economy.” It’s time to add, “GDP is the ecological footprint.”
Let’s not declare war on climate change
We can choose to live with it or fight against it, but it would serve us well to remember what Rachel Carson told us 60 years ago: “We are a part of nature, and our war against nature is inevitably a war against ourselves.”
A Blind Look at Collective Blindness
I think that managing our societal blindness will require us to accept the limitations of perspectives we once relied on, and to not be misled by simplistic hopes.
AI: Storytelling, communication and B.S.
Artificial intelligence is like artificial sweeteners, not as compelling as the real thing and potentially hazardous to our health.
Our Times Call for Managing Complexities, Not Solving Problems
How Paicines Ranch in California works to bring business and investment up to date with our times and closer to nature—prioritizing ecosystem health, habitat, and the sequestration of carbon through soil practices.
Forget GDP growth, it’s sustainable wellbeing we need to aim for
Overcoming our societal addiction to the current system will require a broad consensus and a movement of movements around the shared goal of sustainable wellbeing for humans and the rest of nature.
Protecting New Mexico’s centuries-old water democracy
With water becoming an ever more valuable and contested resource, we need to be crystal clear that it doesn’t belong in the private property system. It belongs in the commons.
The Transition care farm with room for all
Today, Greenslate community-run farm is a hive of community activity, with hundreds of people visiting, volunteering and learning each month.
