Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Modernity barricades us in a bristling fortress set against the wildness outside. From this position of retreat, having disengaged from the external reality for generation upon generation, we tell spooky stories about what’s out there and shudder to think about the certain death of leaving our safe haven…
The Climate Majority is already here. It’s you. It’s me. It’s all of us — stepping forward with courage and care, finding joy in connection and standing up for what we believe in and what we love, together.
Let’s make Algeria a model country, where every drop of water is honored, captured, used, and shared.Let every drop become a promise of life.Let every drop count.
In this mess we are in today, with fascism on the rise, with the risk of war, with burnout and anxiety, there are many reasons for hope. If we fight to get rid of capitalism and transition to an economy that truly values life, I think we can win.
In this conversation, Nate sits down with permaculture educator Andrew Millison to discuss the Great Green Wall project, a massive ecological initiative aimed at combating desertification in the Sahel region of Africa.
If we were to understand the climate crisis as a large-scale socio-ecological crisis, we could look at different future scenarios in an open way. These could be about technological solutions as well as changes in the ways we organize our lives. However, this debate remains at the margins.
By putting this idea out there – that we can respond wisely to the polycrisis by building ecologically savvy agrarian villages – I hope to capture the imagination and fruitful energy of some of you.
If there are future geologists and archaeologists, they will easily identify strata from our fleeting era by evidence of the rapid growth (and decline) of human numbers and their environmental impact, and by durable materials we have left behind—many of which will be plastics.
Convenience has become a central selling point for practically every consumer product or service. But it can be a perilous lure when it comes to our online interactions with government.
In this week’s Frankly, Nate reflects on the effects of technology on modern relationships, and how Dunbar’s number infers a ceiling on the number of people we can meaningfully interact with.
Proposals advocating a democratization of the economic sphere of life must therefore be central to the bioeconomy proposal. It is also crucial to recover its original definition and thus avoid its distortion into another, albeit greener, utilitarian framework.
All Peoples and all sacred life deserve liberation from all unjust systems rooted in principles of supremacy. Our power will never be taken by any executive order, so let’s not quietly give it up.
