Ishmael: Chapter 12
Only by belonging to the world and living in the hands of the gods did we get to be humans.
From failing to prepare to preparing to fail?: The Climate Change Committee’s devastating verdict on the state of Britain’s climate resilience
The recent Climate Change Committee report on the UK government’s lack of preparedness for climate breakdown reveals negligence at a historic scale.
Climate change and the Overton Window
Our political discourse is actually far narrower than our total public discourse which makes addressing big problems such as climate change very difficult.
Trump’s Tariffs = Localist Liberation?
So, yes, we need to condemn globalization loud and clear. And we need a cohesive strategy that moves us sensibly and sanely in the opposite direction.
Ishmael: Chapter 11
Asked if he could fathom trading modern life for a pre-agricultural lifestyle, Alan admits that he cannot. Meanwhile, Leavers exposed to modernity have consistently tried to return to their Leaver lifestyles—often rendered impossible by the destructive acts of Takers.
Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings
If you close your eyes, you can feel the energy of land and creek, rocks and bluffs, grasses and red cedar trees, blue sky and snow, all of it together.
The Alchemy and Reality of Sustainable Business
Let’s keep pushing businesses to behave better and to innovate in ways that are genuinely beneficial for us and the environment, and let’s celebrate them when they do. But we should not expect – and we certainly should not depend on – commercial salvation.
Autonomy for the Majority of the World! Community Struggles for Self-Governance in the Global South
In many ways, then, the real challenge in times of ecological collapse, the rise of authoritarian governments, capitalist crisis, and war-mongering militarization is to truly understand these systems, their evolving nature in relation to contemporary societies, their potential interface with modern institutions of governance, and how to strengthen overall governance for the purposes of justice and sustainability.
Ishmael: Chapter 10
Ishmael asks Alan to define culture, working out in steps that culture is the accumulated knowledge that defines a people, passed down to—and refined/amended by—future generations. This transmission goes beyond mere information, encompassing “beliefs, assumptions, theories, customs, legends, songs, stories, dances, jokes, superstitions, prejudices, tastes, attitudes.”
Algeria: Decolonizing the Mind, Liberating Water, Inventing the Future
Liberate water, liberate the land, liberate the mind — this is the triple revolution awaiting Algeria.
Cultivating Moral Agency to Transform Self and Society
Changing how we live and transforming our societies can feel impossible, but that shouldn’t be surprising when the ethical beliefs that shape us are so rarely subject to scrutiny or discussion. What if we build a social movement that pulls growing numbers of people out of those habits of passivity and helps us cultivate our moral agency?
By Disaster or Design: A Post-Growth World is Coming
The way we do business and the way we live our lives is ingrained in a growth at all costs mindset. But that “cost” is the very systems that keep us alive. Finance can follow this new path. We believe it must.
