Steppe-World
The future Steppe world, if it comes, is one we seem unprepared for.
Jerry Mander: 1936-2023
An author, bon vivant, and impresario of activism whose career of sensational campaigns reads like a history of the modern progressive movement.
Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again?
Cycling is the most sustainable form of transportation, but the bicycle is becoming increasingly damaging to the environment. The energy and material used for its production go up while its life expectancy decreases.
A response to Alessio Terzi: Degrowth for good. Dismantling capitalism to save humanity from climate catastrophe
Who is still actively defending green growth? There is Alessio Terzi, the author of Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe (2022). In this article, I want to respond to a number of arguments developed in a chapter titled “Post-Growth Dystopia.”
Shifting the Paradigm
With his 1962 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn launched the concept of paradigm shift which could be applied to a variety of historical cultural changes as well as desired future ones.
Rabelais in Russia, or the man on a chair in a hat
I’m beginning to embrace the notion that there are hierarchies we cannot simply transcend through history, and that they must be honoured. But, per Rabelais and Bakhtin, that doesn’t mean we can’t invert and relativize them, make fun of them and insist on keeping them at arm’s length while we get on with the more important business of the people’s life and livelihood.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 100 Riane Eisler
Riane Eisler is a social systems scientist, cultural historian, futurist, and attorney whose research, writing, and speaking has transformed the lives of people worldwide. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Little things mean a lot: The world’s microbiome under threat
The smallest living things in the world may be the most important to us humans.
From San Juan to Cali to Hiroshima to Oakland to Hilo
Creation begins in the hungry darkness of chaos, the web of life begins in the sea. Words appear from nowhere, phrases form…
Recipes for car dependency
A car-dependent society isn’t built overnight. It takes concerted effort by multiple levels of government and industry to make private cars the go-to, all-but-obligatory choice for everyday personal transportation.
Artificial Intelligence & The Polycrisis
The arrival of this AI challenge to our adaptive capacities is occurring precisely at the historical moment in which all of the other facets of the polycrisis are reaching a kind of historical crescendo or apogee.
Black rides matter: Diverse cycling groups show that biking is for everyone
Biking isn’t just for the White, male, able-bodied, heterosexual, and privileged; it’s for everyone.
