Can authoritarians solve our environmental problems?
Frustrated environmental advocates sometimes in frustration think that only a dictator can solve our environmental problems. They should think again.
Can We Save the World’s Largest Flowers From the Brink of Extinction?
The 42 known species of the genus Rafflesia are under threat due to deforestation and habitat destruction.
Wisconsin Notches a Win Against Big Ag—For Now
A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled that the state’s Department of Natural Resources has the authority to regulate large-scale animal farms, a blow to big farm groups amid their decades-long fight to scale back environmental oversight.
The politics of renewables are getting stranger. ‘Sun Day’ celebrates them anyway
The way organizers see it, Sun Day is a chance to help banish outdated perceptions about solar and wind. McKibben hopes the event will help the public to stop thinking of clean energy as a premium lifestyle choice; no longer as the Whole Foods of energy, but the Costco.
Dark Triad Personality Traits: How Psychopathy, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism Impact O
In this episode, Nate is joined by Dr. Reid Meloy and Dr. Nancy McWilliams to explore the inner workings of the Dark Triad personality traits and their manifestation in modern culture.
The Seeds Herman Planted: Final Episode of Going Steady with Herman Daly
In tandem with the 80th United Nations General Assembly, we’re asking a vital question: where do we find hope at such a challenging time? And the answer is in our cities.
Strangled by Formalities: Bureaucracy and the Machinery of Control
The basis of bureaucracy is the complex hierarchical stratification of society into order-givers and order-takers, and it is when social movements open spaces where this division is abolished, that the perspective for a coherent alternative begin to emerge.
Saving Okefenokee
There’s a lot to be determined about the fate of wild places in Georgia… We’re going to continue to stay on [the Okefenokee story] and see what happens next, because I don’t think this is the end of potential mining proposals near the swamp.
Regulating AI use could stop its runaway energy expansion
So, we are left with pressing questions. Can we harness the benefits of AI without accelerating environmental collapse? Can AI be made truly sustainable – and if so, how?
Colombia’s flower industry: a story of extractivism and resistance
For degrowth thinkers and activists, this means not only rejecting extractivism in theory but learning from the everyday practices of those who are working on alternatives. But it also means finding hope and direction in the grounded, collective visions blooming across the Sabana de Bogotá.
Rural Europe Takes Action – Food System Lessons from Marburg
Against this backdrop, the case of Marburg reminds us how local communities are building sustainable food systems for their regions, despite the obstacles. If EU agriculture and rural policies are mishandled in the next cycle, those obstacles will likely intensify – but the changemakers will keep moving.
In the disunited states, conflict and uncertainty rule – Time to come home
It is time to come home and build a better future in the places where we live.
