Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
A group of archaeologists, climate scientists and policy experts met at the University of East Anglia last week to discuss how unique cultures and heritage are fast disappearing because of climate change – and what can be done to properly measure and address this.
Although Tom Standage’s book is billed as A Brief History of Motion, it is really about the long century of the car.
You should be very, very cautious about any device that uses the word “smart” in its name.
As a rapidly warming world strains at the shortcomings in industrial farming, key lessons can be taken from Indigenous practices.
This is the crisis of faith. Really, we all know that those we’ve elevated on pedestals of power can do approximately nothing for us, that we have no reason to admire them or to look to them for support.
What we saw with the Fox’s Field forest garden project, is that the power of illustration to create the future we want is no small thing.
On this episode, physicist Antonio Turiel joins me for a wide-ranging discussion from oceans and climate to energy and culture.
The co-city process requires a lot of community-wide discussion and deliberation to come up with solutions, and a frank grappling with the elephants in the room.
The challenge now is to limit the depth and duration of the 1.5°C overshoot and thus the destruction that occurs during and after it.
The sense of belonging in community I think we all deeply need now weaves human beings in—integrates us—with the other-than-human world, such that our neighbors are not just our fellow humans, but all of the life around us.
But inasmuch as the small farm societies of the future will be peasant societies I think they’ll be ‘reconstituted’ peasant societies…, rebuilding themselves out of the declining structures of an earlier economic system in the absence of an ‘authentic’ prior peasant tradition – albeit, I confess, in a very different historical situation.
The narrative that permafrost is a material structure separate from earth systems served some purposes but has also led to catastrophe and injustice. It is time to center the voices of people living with permafrost, symmetrically embracing the plurality of perspectives.
