Tax Day
We evolved to experience this joy in eating nutritious food. And the peach exists merely to fill that need. We made it so… and now money stands in the way.
I was wrong to conclude collapse is inevitable…
I was wrong to conclude collapse is inevitable… because when I was concluding that, it had already begun.
Livelihood: a new and old idea
As an eco-cultural philosopher (and poet), I’m strongly inclined to believe modern humans have almost entirely lost the sense of the word which became our contemporary word, livelihood. Why?
Will more sovereign wealth funds mean less food sovereignty?
But sovereign wealth funds crush real visions of food sovereignty as they take resources away from local communities and push a capitalist, industrialist food system – be it green or not.
Not Banking on Banga
Banga needs to help the World Bank bring an end to the debt crisis and create real pathways for debtor countries to build resilience to climate change and volatility in the global economy.
What I learned from the British canals
The essential point is that economists’ competitive frame is falsely founded, and that our competitive social systems are spawning and reinforcing a dangerously myopic culture that is doing us a great deal of damage.
Reality, Probability, and Perception
In this Frankly, Nate explains how he views the future from a probability perspective – a tool frequently used in industries such as finance, retirement planning, and by e.g. gamblers.
After the uprising, what is to be done?
We have to continue to remind each other what we are owed, what we deserve, and what we can build together.
Another offering from our tech overlords: A climate change solution without sacrifice
The late Eric Sevareid, a CBS reporter and commentator, coined what is now known as Sevareid’s law: The chief cause of problems is solutions.
Dispossessions…
It wasn’t that long ago in most places that a lot more people lived more land-based lives grounded within more local and more renewable economies than today. It’s unlikely that the future will involve faithful replication of these lifeways, but it’s well worth understanding how they worked…
Cache Creek
The animal community, that is mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians, has shrunk on average 68% between 1970 and 2020, according to the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London in the Living Planet Report.
Picture the Future: The Shift
In 2010, two women, Sarah Pugh and Laura Corfield co-founded Shift Bristol, fired up by the idea that what people needed in order to make that shift – to a more sustainable, eco-friendly, viable and happy existence – was some hands-on training.
