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.
No to reform!
While the ecological movement has questioned the endless expansion of production, consumption and the consequent acceleration of resource and energy use, the left has often emphasised the domination of nature not just to meet everyone’s needs but to offer a universally high standard of living.
Creating A Community Of Change Agents-through the climate action lens
While it may take a community to make a change, it is possible for a single person to change a community. Might you be that person?
What Sound Can Tell Us About Our Changing World
As new technologies supercharge the field of bioacoustics, researchers can better listen to environmental changes — and use the information to guide conservation efforts.
Red States and the Inflation Reduction Act: Environmental Hypocrisy or Just Good Politics?
The budget battle brewing in Congress could see the US become a dead-beat debtor if the warring factions can’t come to some arrangement on raising the nation’s debt ceiling.
