Wait, Exxon’s Not Going to be an Algae Company?
Exxon makes money—a record $59 billion this past year—by selling you stuff that you burn so then you have to buy some more.
Always Coming Home: Review
Always Coming Home must stand as a landmark of deindustrial literature, from years before the genre was ever named.
Why Farmers in Zimbabwe Are Shifting to Bees
Without the need for dedicated land or water, honeybees offer a more stable climate future.
First There Must Be An End
It matters which world we think is ending, and it matters what we tell each other is worth doing in such a time.
Olivia Lazard: “Peace and Power in the Mineral Age”
On this episode, environmental peacemaker and mediator Olivia Lazard joins Nate to unpack the relationship between mineral deposits, conflict-vulnerable zones, and high biodiversity areas to create interlocking risks to geopolitical and climate stability.
“Sometimes a Gas Stove Is Not Just a Gas Stove”
The stove campaign is aimed at improving indoor air quality and health, but if successful, it will also reduce emissions of methane, the powerful greenhouse gas that is the chief component of fossil gas.
Atoms, Bits and Wits: The Economic Case for Cooperation
Atoms, bits and wits show why a horizonal view will open an economic case for cooperation and learning in media, education, politics and ecology.
Fusion Futures
How likely is it that the threads of thought and action attempting to reclaim cultures of restraint, restoration of nature and finding humanity’s place in that order, both at the local and the global level, over the last 100 years or so, would spread, let alone become dominant during any new pulse of free energy, so close on the heels of the frenzy of consumption of millions of years’ worth of stored sunlight (in fossil fuels)?
Klamath Countdown: Researchers Hustle Before Largest Dam-Removal Project Begins
By the end of 2024 the Lower Klamath River will run free for the first time in a century, enabling fish like salmon and steelhead to reclaim 400 miles of river habitat in California and Oregon.
The Parable of the Humane Philanthropist
Healing the ocean and keeping it healthy—i.e. focusing on the root causes of environmental and social injustices—so as to prevent sea animals from washing up on the shores in the first place is where we all need to focus. But what does that even mean?
‘Food!: It’s Political!’ (whether you like it or not)
Food is the basis for lifestyle: Food is the connection to our authentic, biological nature as living creatures, sharing the world with a host of other creatures, in a complex global ecology. Get that right, and all the other things are ‘negotiable’.
Real Estate for Radicals: co-ops, community land trusts, communes, and squats
The Real Estate for Radicals project features case study-based research on affordable community-owned housing (co-ops, community land trusts, communes, and squats) and their potential to advance housing as a human right.
